Commander-in-Chief, North Sea

Commander-in-Chief, North Sea
Active 1543–1815
Country United Kingdom
Branch Royal Navy
Type Fleet
Role Trade Protection, Blockade
Part of Royal Navy
Garrison/HQ Yarmouth Roads, Great Yarmouth, Ramsgate
Engagements

The Commander-in-Chief, North Sea [1] also known as the North Sea Fleet [2] was an operational command of the Kingdom of Great Britain and then the United Kingdom's Royal Navy based at Great Yarmouth from 1543 to 1802 then at Ramsgate from 1803 until 1815.[3]

History

The North Sea has traditionally been an important command from the 13th to 15th centuries there was an Admiral of the North based at Yarmouth that office ceased when it was unified with the new office of Admiral of England. During the 16th and 17th centuries Vice Admirals were appointed to the command of the North Sea though on an intermittent basis. From 1652-1654 Yarmouth used by the Royal Navy for stationing its fleets during the First Anglo-Dutch War[4]. A more permanent command was then established in 1781 with the fleet usually anchored at Yarmouth Roads.[5] The fleet is most well known for its key role in the Battle of Camperdown against the Dutch Navy on the 11 October 1797 which resulted in a decisive British victory. The fleet was also involved in trade protection with the advent of the looming Napoleonic Wars and later it turned to the blockading of enemy ports. The fleet also played an instrumental part in the British anti-invasion preparations of 1803–05 in response to Napoleon's planned invasion of the United Kingdom. It ceased as a separate command in 1815 when it was absorbed into the Nore Command whose role and geographic area of responsibility was re-defined by the Admiralty.

Admiral/Vice-Admiral, North Sea

Incomplete list of post holders included:

Post in abeyance

Commander-in-Chief, North Sea

Included:

No fleet present 1783-1794

References

  1. ↑ Mace, Martin; Grehan, John (Nov 14, 2013). British Battles of the Napoleonic Wars 1793-1806: Despatched from the Front. Pen and Sword. p. 27. ISBN 9781473831421.
  2. ↑ Blake, Richard (2008). Evangelicals in the Royal Navy, 1775-1815: Blue Lights & Psalm-singers. Boydell Press. p. 133. ISBN 9781843833598.
  3. ↑ Archives, The National. "Admiralty: Nore Station: Correspondence". discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk. The National Archives, 1805-1939, ADM 151. Retrieved 11 June 2018.
  4. ↑ Davies, J. D. (2008). Pepys Navy: Ships, Men and Warfare 1649-89. Seaforth Publishing. p. 195. ISBN 9781783830220.
  5. ↑ Palmer, Charles John (1856). The History of Great Yarmouth, Designed as a Continuation of Manship's History of that Town. Louis Alfred Meall, The Quay. p. 275.
  6. ↑ Loades, D. M. (1996). John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland, 1504-1553. Wotton-under-Edge, England: Clarendon Press. p. 55. ISBN 9780198201939.
  7. ↑ Rose, Susan (2008). The Naval Miscellany. Farnham, Kent, England: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. p. 67. ISBN 9780754664314.
  8. ↑ Glasgow, Tom (January 1977). "VICE ADMIRAL WOODHOUSE AND SHIPKEEPING IN THE TUDOR NAVY". The Mariner's Mirror. 63 (3): 253–263. doi:10.1080/00253359.1977.10659032. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
  9. ↑ Knighton, edited by C.S.; Loades, David (2011). The Navy of Edward VI and Mary I. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate for the Navy Records Society. p. 540. ISBN 9781409418474.
  10. ↑ Knighton, edited by C.S.; Loades, David (2011). The Navy of Edward VI and Mary I. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate for the Navy Records Society. p. 541. ISBN 9781409418474.
  11. ↑ Knighton, edited by C.S.; Loades, David (2011). The Navy of Edward VI and Mary I. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate for the Navy Records Society. p. 551. ISBN 9781409418474.
  12. ↑ Stewart, William (2009). Admirals of the World: A Biographical Dictionary, 1500 to the Present. Jefferson NC United States: McFarland. p. 198. ISBN 9780786482887.
  13. ↑ Pettigrew, Thomas Joseph (1849). Memoirs of the Life of Vice-Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson. T. and W. Boone. p. 55.
  14. ↑ O’Byrne, William R. (Feb 6, 2012). A Naval Biographical Dictionary - Volume 3. Andrews UK Limited. p. 1117. ISBN 9781781502815.
  15. ↑ Chambers, Robert; Thomson, Thomas (1855). A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen: Crichton-Hamilton, John. Blackie. p. 165.
  16. ↑ Clarke, James Stanier; McArthur, John (Sep 2, 2010). The Naval Chronicle: Volume 3, January-July 1800: Containing a General and Biographical History of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom with a Variety of Original Papers on Nautical Subjects. Cambridge University Press. p. 330. ISBN 9781108018425.
  17. ↑ (Viscount), Horatio Nelson Nelson; Maffeo, Steven E. (2007). Seize, Burn, Or Sink: The Thoughts and Words of Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson. Scarecrow Press. p. 597. ISBN 9780810857810.
  18. ↑ Marshall, John (Nov 18, 2010). Royal Naval Biography: Or, Memoirs of the Services of All the Flag-Officers, Superannuated Rear-Admirals, Retired-Captains, Post-Captains, and Commanders. Cambridge University Press. p. 145. ISBN 9781108022644.
  19. ↑ A New Biographical Dictionary, of 3000 Cotemporary Public Characters, British and Foreign, of All Ranks and Professions. G. B. Whittaker. 1835. p. 36.
  20. ↑ Clarke, James Stanier; McArthur, John (Sep 2, 2010). The Naval Chronicle: Volume 26, July-December 1811: Containing a General and Biographical History of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom with a Variety of Original Papers on Nautical Subjects. Cambridge University Press. p. 337. ISBN 9781108018654.

Sources

  • A New Biographical Dictionary, of 3000 Cotemporary Public Characters, British and Foreign, of All Ranks and Professions. G. B. Whittaker. 1835.
  • Archives, The National. "Admiralty: Nore Station: Correspondence". discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk. The National Archives, 1805-1939, ADM 151.
  • Blake, Richard (2008). Evangelicals in the Royal Navy, 1775-1815: Blue Lights & Psalm-singers. Boydell Press. ISBN 9781843833598.
  • Chambers, Robert; Thomson, Thomas (1855). A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen: Crichton-Hamilton, John. Blackie.
  • Clarke, James Stanier; McArthur, John (2010). The Naval Chronicle: Volume 3, January–July 1800: Containing a General and Biographical History of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom with a Variety of Original Papers on Nautical Subjects. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781108018425
  • Davies, J. D. (2008). Pepys Navy: Ships, Men and Warfare 1649-89. Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 9781783830220.
  • Ireland, Bernard (2001), Naval Warfare in the Age of Sail - War at Sea 1756-1815, 1st Ed, WW Norton & Co. ISBN 9780393049831.
  • Knighton, edited by C.S.; Loades, David (2011). The Navy of Edward VI and Mary I. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate for the Navy Records Society. ISBN 9781409418474.
  • Loades, D. M. (1996). John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland, 1504-1553. Wotton-under-Edge, England: Clarendon Press. ISBN 9780198201939.
  • Mace, Martin; Grehan, John (Nov 14, 2013). British Battles of the Napoleonic Wars 1793-1806: Despatched from the Front. Pen and Sword. ISBN 9781473831421.
  • Marshall, John (2010). Royal Naval Biography: Or, Memoirs of the Services of All the Flag-Officers, Superannuated Rear-Admirals, Retired-Captains, Post-Captains, and Commanders. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781108022644.
  • O’Byrne, William R. (2012). A Naval Biographical Dictionary - Volume 3. Andrews UK Limited. ISBN 9781781502815.
  • Palmer, Charles John (1856). The History of Great Yarmouth, Designed as a Continuation of Manship's History of that Town. Louis Alfred Meall, The Quay.
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  • (Viscount), Horatio Nelson Nelson; Maffeo, Steven E. (2007). Seize, Burn, Or Sink: The Thoughts and Words of Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 9780810857810.
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