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|align=center colspan=4|{{UK-Bulwark}}||align=center colspan=4|{{UK-Albemarle}}||align=center colspan=4|{{UK-Hannibal}} (2nd flag)||align=center colspan=4|{{UK-Ocean}} (2nd flag)
 
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|align=center colspan=4|{{UK-Irresistible}}||align=center colspan=4|'''  '''||align=center colspan=4|{{UK-Majestic}}||align=center colspan=4|{{UK-Canopus}}
 
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|align=center colspan=3|{{UK-Aboukir}} (flag)||align=center colspan=3|{{UK-Bacchante}} (flag)||align=center colspan=3|{{UK-Hogue}} (flag)
 
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|align=center colspan=4|'''Training Squadron'''||align=center colspan=4|'''Attached to 1st Light Cruiser Squadron'''||align=center colspan=4|'''Attached Ships'''||align=center colspan=4|'''Minelayer Squadron'''
 
|align=center colspan=4|'''Training Squadron'''||align=center colspan=4|'''Attached to 1st Light Cruiser Squadron'''||align=center colspan=4|'''Attached Ships'''||align=center colspan=4|'''Minelayer Squadron'''
 
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==Footnotes==
 
==Footnotes==

Revision as of 12:12, 13 December 2021

The Royal Navy's Annual Manoeuvres of 1914 were cancelled on 20th February 1914 and replaced by a test mobilisation of the Reserve Fleet[1].

The schedule for this exercise was planned to be as follows: 

Wednesday 15th July              Reserve called up

16th and 17th July               Mobilise

Saturday 18th July               Proceed to rendezvous

19th to 23rd July                At rendezvous and tactical exercises at sea

Friday 24th July                 Arrive Home Ports

Saturday 25th July, 9am          Discharge reserves


Order of Battle

The ships of the reserve formed the Second and Third Fleets as follows:[2]

Lord Nelson (Fleet Flagship)
Fifth Battle Squadron Sixth Battle Squadron Seventh Battle Squadron Eighth Battle Squadron
Prince of Wales (flag) Russell (flag) Prince George (flag) Albion (flag)
Bulwark Albemarle Hannibal (2nd flag) Ocean (2nd flag)
Formidable Exmouth Illustrious Goliath
Implacable Vengeance Magnificent Jupiter
Irresistible Majestic Canopus
London Mars Glory
Queen Victorious
Fifth Cruiser Squadron Sixth Cruiser Squadron Seventh Cruiser Squadron
Carnarvon (flag) Good Hope (flag) Euryalus (flag)
Cornwall Drake Cressy
Cumberland Leviathan Minerva
Venus
Eighth Cruiser Squadron Ninth Cruiser Squadron Tenth Cruiser Squadron
Aboukir (flag) Bacchante (flag) Hogue (flag)
Challenger Diana Charybdis
Isis Sutlej Eclipse
Juno Talbot Highflyer
Training Squadron Attached to 1st Light Cruiser Squadron Attached Ships Minelayer Squadron
Crescent (flag) Falmouth Diamond (5th B.S.) Andromache
Edgar Liverpool Topaze (6th B.S.) Apollo
Endymion Doris (7th B.S.) Intrepid
Gibraltar Sapphire (8th B.S.) Iphigenia
Grafton Latona
Royal Arthur Unappropriated Naiad
Theseus Vindictive Thetis

Footnotes

  1. ↑ M11959/14 From Admiralty to C-in-C, Home Fleets, dated 20th February 1914. Backhouse Papers, Naval Historical Branch.
  2. ↑ Vice-Admiral Cecil Burney, Second and Third Fleets Serial Orders, 11 June 1914, Backhouse Papers, Naval Historical Branch

Bibliography

  • M11959/14 From Admiralty to C-in-C, Home Fleets, dated 20th February 1914. Backhouse Papers, Naval Historical Branch, Portsmouth, UK.
  • Vice-Admiral Cecil Burney, Second and Third Fleets Serial Orders, 11 June 1914, Backhouse Papers, Naval Historical Branch, Portsmouth, UK


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