Cromarty
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The Scottish town of Cromarty was a minor Royal Navy base in the Great War, situated on the eastern coast on the Moray Firth. It served as the base for Auxiliary Patrol Area IV.
The armoured cruiser H.M.S. Natal was destroyed in a cataclysmic explosion on 30 December, 1915 with heavy loss of life.
The Auxiliary Patrol Base at Cromarty was closed on 31 May, 1919.[1]
In Command
- Acting Captain Henry L. Dicks, 19 January, 1915[2] – after November, 1918
King's Harbour Master
- Commander (N) Henry W. Simms, 9 October, 1913 – 23 January, 1915
- Captain James C. Tancred, 13 December, 1915 – 24 January, 1919
- Commander (N) Malby D. Brownlow, 22 April, 1922[3] – 1 September, 1923[4]
- Commander Morgan Tindal, 1 August, 1923[5]
- Commander Robert Mends, 1 April, 1932[6] – 29 January, 1935 (and as Naval Officer Commanding Naval Estb. at Invergordon and Scapa Flow)
- Commander Leonard G. Addington, 29 January, 1935[7] – 1 August, 1940[8]
Assistant to King's Harbour Master
- Commander (retired) Arnold Kirke, 10 November, 1914 – 9 March, 1916
- Lieutenant-Commander Charles H. Fforde, 9 September, 1916[9] – 7 June, 1919[10]
Captain of Dockyard
- Captain James C. Tancred, 13 December, 1915 – 24 January, 1919
See Also
Footnotes
- ↑ "Fewer Naval Bases." The Times (London, England), 2 June 1919, p. 18.
- ↑ The Navy List. (December, 1918). p. 918.
- ↑ Brownlow Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51/52. f. 54.
- ↑ Brownlow Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51/52. f. 54.
- ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1926). p. 198.
- ↑ "Naval Appointments." The Times (London, England), Saturday, February 6, 1932, Issue 46050, p.21.
- ↑ Addington Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/55/24. f. 24.
- ↑ Addington Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/55/24. f. 24.
- ↑ Fforde Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/129. ff. 62, 182.
- ↑ Fforde Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/129. ff. 62, 182.
