Training Squadron (Royal Navy)
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Jump to navigationJump to searchThe Training Squadron commissioned at Portsmouth and Chatham on 21 September, 1885, under Commodore, Second Class Robert FitzRoy. It was initally composed of the Active, Volage, Rover, and Calypso.[1]
On 30 October, 1899 the masted Training Squadron was paid off. The following day the crews turned over to first-class cruisers.
1913
In March of 1913, the squadron was based in Queenstown, and consisted of two groups:[2]
First Group
Second Group
Commodores
Dates of appointment given:
- Commodore, Second Class Robert O'B. FitzRoy, 21 September, 1885.[3]
- Commodore, Second Class Albert H. Markham, 1 November, 1886.[4]
- Commodore, Second Class Armand T. Powlett, 14 November, 1889.[5]
- Commodore, Second Class Lewis A. Beaumont, 1 August, 1891.[6]
- Commodore, Second Class Robert H. Harris, 1 June, 1893.[7]
- Commodore, Second Class George L. Atkinson, 18 April, 1895.[8]
- Commodore, Second Class Edmund S. Poë, 14 October, 1897.[9]
Footnotes
- ↑ "Naval and Military Intelligence" (Official Appointments and Notices). The Times. Tuesday, 22 September, 1885. Issue 31558, col D, p. 12.
- ↑ Admiralty Weekly Order No. 146 of 28 March, 1913.
- ↑ "Naval and Military Intelligence" (Official Appointments and Notices). The Times. Tuesday, 22 September, 1885. Issue 31558, col D, p. 12.
- ↑ "Naval and Military Intelligence" (Official Appointments and Notices). The Times. Tuesday, 2 November, 1886. Issue 31806, col D, p. 7.
- ↑ "Naval and Military Intelligence" (Official Appointments and Notices). The Times. Saturday, 2 November, 1889. Issue 32846, col C, p. 10.
- ↑ "Naval and Military Intelligence" (Official Appointments and Notices). The Times. Thursday, 23 July, 1891. Issue 33384, col A, p. 7.
- ↑ "Naval & Military Intelligence" (Official Appointments and Notices). The Times. Saturday, 13 May, 1893. Issue 33950, col D, p. 13.
- ↑ "Naval & Military Intelligence" (Official Appointments and Notices). The Times. Wednesday, 27 March, 1895. Issue 34535, col B, p. 10.
- ↑ "Naval & Military Intelligence" (Official Appointments and Notices). The Times. Wednesday, 13 October, 1897. Issue 35333, col A, p. 11.
