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    2°59′36″W / 53.4074°N 2.9932°W / 53.4074; -2.9932 Commander-in-Chief, Western Approaches was the commander of a major operational command of the Royal Navy...
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  • Ernest Gaunt (category Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath)
    Australian-born Royal Navy officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, Western Approaches. Gaunt was born in Beechworth, Victoria, Australia, the son of William...
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    The post became "Commander in Chief, Western Approaches" in 1919, and was disestablished at the end of the Irish War of Independence in 1922. That year...
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    the additional appointment of Commander-in-Chief, Home Fleet, and allotted a rear-admiral to serve under him as commander of the Home Squadron. "... the...
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    Frederic John Walker (category Royal Navy personnel killed in World War II)
    convoys. Walker had suggested the innovative idea to the Commander-in-Chief Western Approaches Command, Sir Max Horton. The combination of an active hunting...
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    Max Horton (category Chief Commanders of the Legion of Merit)
    World War and commander-in-chief of the Western Approaches in the later half of the Second World War, responsible for British participation in the Battle...
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    Percy Noble (Royal Navy officer) (category Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath)
    Navy officer who served in both World Wars. Noble rose to the rank of admiral and was Commander-in-Chief, Western Approaches for two crucial years during...
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    The Commander-in-Chief, China, was the admiral in command of what was usually known as the China Station, at once both a British Royal Navy naval formation...
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    Second Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Personnel by an order in council dated 23 October. The posts of Second Sea Lord and Commander-in-Chief, Naval Home Command...
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    The Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth, was a senior commander of the Royal Navy for hundreds of years. Plymouth Command was a name given to the units, establishments...
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    America station was split, this responsibility was passed to the Commander-in-Chief, Pacific. In 1843, George Paulet, captain of Carysfort, took her out from...
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    was commanded by Commanders-in-Chief whose titles changed with the changing of the formation's name, eventually by the Commander-in-Chief, America and West...
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    sunk in the Skaggerak using information gleaned from British wireless signals. In 1941, B-Dienst read signals from the Commander in Chief Western Approaches...
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    The Commander-in-Chief, The Nore, was an operational commander of the Royal Navy. His subordinate units, establishments, and staff were sometimes informally...
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    The Commander-in-Chief South Atlantic was an operational commander of the Royal Navy from 1939. The South American area was added to his responsibilities...
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    USS Thomas (DD-182) (category Ships built in Newport News, Virginia)
    crew elicited a warm commendatory signal from the Commander-in-Chief, Western Approaches (C-in-C WA). In this message of 12 October 1941, he also praised...
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    (1880–1955), British Second World War admiral, Royal Navy Commander-in-Chief, Western Approaches Percy Verner Noble (1902–1996), Canadian Member of Parliament...
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    Australia Station was under the command of the Commander-in-Chief, Australia Station, whose rank varied over time. In the years following the establishment of...
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    refitting of Royal Navy surface vessels and submarines. Before its privatisation in the 1990s it was formerly the Royal Naval Dockyard Rosyth. Its primary role...
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    Newfoundland Escort Force, under the overall authority of the Commander-in-Chief, Western Approaches, at Liverpool. Six Canadian destroyers and 17 corvettes...
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  • New Zealand Naval Forces (category Military units and formations established in 1913)
    and the Persian Gulf. In 1919 Commodore, Alan Hotham was appointed commander-in-chief until 1921 when the New Zealand Naval Forces was renamed as the New...
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    Royal Navy (category 16th-century establishments in England)
    Headquarters of the Commander-in-Chief, Fleet and Naval Home Command into a single organisation, Fleet Command, in 2005 and becoming Navy Command in 2008. Within...
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    The Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth, was a senior commander of the Royal Navy for hundreds of years. The commanders-in-chief were based at premises in High...
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    Admiralty (United Kingdom) (category 1964 disestablishments in the United Kingdom)
    1914. Sir John Jellicoe came to the Admiralty in 1916. He re-organized the war staff as following: Chief of War Staff, Operations, Intelligence, Signal...
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    Commander-in-Chief of the British Eastern Fleet and hoisted it in the gunboat Tarantula, a worn out ship in use as offices, as Commander-in-Chief British Pacific...
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    Western Squadron in 1746. The squadron was commanded by the Flag Officer with the dual title of Commander-in-Chief, English Channel and Commander-in-Chief...
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    In 1971 the Far East Fleet was abolished and its remaining forces returned home, coming under the command of the new, unified, Commander-in-Chief Fleet...
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    Dartmouth was rated by Ofsted as inadequate. Amanda Spielman, Ofsted's Chief Inspector, said Dartmouth received the rating due to the poor state of the...
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    officially known as First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff (1SL/CNS), is the title of a statutory position in the British Armed Forces, held by an...
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    Grand Fleet (category 1914 establishments in the United Kingdom)
    Vice Admiral Francis Miller, the Base Admiral in Chief from 7 August 1914, devolving on the commander in chief, Admiral John Jellicoe. To relieve the administrative...
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