First Battle Cruiser Squadron (Royal Navy)
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Vice-Admirals and Rear-Admirals Commanding
Dates of appointment given:
- Vice-Admiral (Acting) Sir David R. Beatty, 1 March, 1913.[1]
- Rear-Admiral Osmond de B. Brock, 8 February, 1915.[2]
- Rear-Admiral Richard F. Phillimore, 1 December, 1916.[3]
- Rear-Admiral Sir Henry F. Oliver, 14 March, 1918.[4]
Rear-Admiral in the First Battle Cruiser Squadron
- Rear-Admiral Sir A. Gordon H. W. Moore, 4 November, 1914.[5]
Composition
December, 1913[6]
- Lion (flag)
- Queen Mary
- Princess Royal
- New Zealand
July, 1914[7]
The composition remains as it was in December, 1913.
Outbreak of War[8]
Still unchanged from December, 1913.
- Lion, Captain Chatfield
- Princess Royal, Captain Brock
- Queen Mary, Captain Hall
- New Zealand, Captain Halsey
17 November, 1917 at Second Battle of Heligoland Bight[9]
July, 1918[10]
With Lion now acting as flagship of the encompassing Battle Cruiser Force, the squadron now consisted of:
Footnotes
- ↑ Supplement to the Monthly Navy List (September, 1914). p. 4.
- ↑ Squadrons and Senior Naval Officers in Existence on 11th November, 1918. f. 9.
- ↑ Squadrons and Senior Naval Officers in Existence on 11th November, 1918. f. 9.
- ↑ Squadrons and Senior Naval Officers in Existence on 11th November, 1918. f. 9.
- ↑ Moore Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 64.
- ↑ Handwritten notes in Albert Francis Barclay Bridges papers at The Caird Library at the National Maritime Museum. [BRG 1/1]
- ↑ Printed page "Fleets and Squadrons in Commission at Home and Abroad" in Albert Francis Barclay Bridges papers at The Caird Library at the National Maritime Museum. [BRG 1/1]
- ↑ Naval Operations. Volume I. p. 439.
- ↑ Naval Operations. Vol. V. pp. 168-169.
- ↑ Supplement to the Monthly Navy List (July, 1918). p. 10.
Bibliography
- Corbett, Sir Julian S. (1920). Naval Operations. Volume I. London: Longmans, Green and Co..
- Newbolt, Henry (1931). Naval Operations. Vol. V. London: Longmans, Green and Co..
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