The Flag Officer, Air and Second-in-Command, Mediterranean Fleet was a senior command appointment of the British Royal Navy from January 1947 to 1958...
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Mediterranean Fleet, also known as the Mediterranean Station, was a formation of the Royal Navy. The Fleet was one of the most prestigious commands in...
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II. Became Flag Officer Mediterranean Aircraft Carriers. Vice-Admiral Commanding, Light Forces, and Second-in-Command Mediterranean Fleet Vice-Admiral...
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higher command organisation of squadrons in the Home and Mediterranean Fleets. The squadrons of the Home Fleet were grouped under a Flag Officer, Flotillas...
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from 1946, Flag Officer, Air (Home). His last appointment was as Flag Officer, Air and Second-in-Command, Mediterranean Fleet in 1948. Troubridge married...
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in the Far East Fleet. From 1971-72 CINCFLEET directed Flag Officer, Carriers and Amphibious Ships; Flag Officer First Flotilla; Flag Officer, Second...
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Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope (category Royal Navy admirals of the fleet)
Battlecruiser Squadron and second-in-command of the Mediterranean Fleet, with HMSÂ Hood as his flagship. After his long service in small ships, Cunningham...
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The British Pacific Fleet (BPF) was a Royal Navy formation that saw action against Japan during the Second World War. It was formed from aircraft carriers...
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James Somerville (redirect from James Somerville (Royal Navy officer))
became Flag Officer Destroyers in the Mediterranean Fleet in March 1936 and during the Spanish Civil War commanded an international force in the area...
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December 1950, and on the 17th was made commander of the 5th Cruiser Squadron and Flag Officer Second in Command Far East Fleet, flying his flag in the light...
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Cecil Harcourt (section Commands)
Bath (KCB). In 1946, he was promoted to vice-admiral. In 1947, Harcourt became Flag Officer (Air) and Second in Command Mediterranean Fleet. In 1948, he...
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Indies Fleet. There were also Naval Officers-in-Charge at Basra and for the Hormuz. The Flag Officer, Malaya commanded naval forces and establishments in Malaya...
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being the Home Fleet; Mediterranean Fleet; East Indies Station; and Far East Fleet. In the late 1960s the Home Fleet and Mediterranean Fleet were amalgamated...
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Assistant Chief of the Naval Staff (Aviation, Amphibious Capability & Carriers) (redirect from Flag Officer Naval Air Command)
Integrated Fleet HQ and aviation's place within". Flight Deck (Winter 2001). "Fleet Air Arm Service Records: Flag Officer Index". Fleet Air Arm Archive.net...
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Maxwell Richmond (category All Wikipedia articles written in New Zealand English)
August 1955 he was appointed Flag Officer, Air and Second-in-Command, Mediterranean Fleet until October 1956. In the 1957 Queen's Birthday Honours he was promoted...
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the Mediterranean Fleet to be divided into two commands. One was responsible for naval operations involving ships, and the other, administrative and support...
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list of historic and current command flags of the Royal Navy. Command rank flags to denote the commander-in-chief of the English fleet and later Royal Navy...
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Hermes and Invincible part of the Task Force. At the end of the Cold War in 1989 the Fleet Air Arm was under the command of the Flag Officer Naval Air Command...
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the fleet became the core element of the newly established Northern Fleet Joint Strategic Command, including all Russian armed forces located in Murmansk...
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Europe (SACEUR), and is always a U.S. four-star general officer or flag officer who also serves as Commander, U.S. European Command. From 1951 to 2003...
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Commander-in-Chief, East Indies until 1883, when it became part of the Mediterranean Fleet. In 1914 the station came under command of the Commander-in-Chief...
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date to 1931. A Flag Officer with specific responsibilities for command of aircraft carriers within the Royal Navy was first established in September 1931...
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Royal Navy (redirect from British Fleet)
command, under the Principal Personnel Officer, with the operational and policy command, combining the Headquarters of the Commander-in-Chief, Fleet and...
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Ernest J. King (category American five-star officers)
Mayo, the commander in chief of the Atlantic Fleet. After the war, King was the head of the Naval Postgraduate School and commanded submarine divisions...
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Black Sea, the Sea of Azov and the Mediterranean Sea. The Black Sea Fleet, along with other Russian ground and air forces on the Crimean Peninsula, are...
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Russian Navy (redirect from Soviet fortress fleet doctrine)
completed their duties in the Mediterranean. The Baltic Fleet ships spent several weeks at Novorossiysk undergoing checks and maintenance and replenishing supplies...
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Director of Plans at the Admiralty in 1930. He saw action as Commander-in-Chief of the Mediterranean Fleet during the Second World War with responsibility...
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Spanish Navy (redirect from Royal Spanish fleet)
form Spain, Aragon and Castile, had developed powerful fleets. Aragon possessed the third largest navy in the late medieval Mediterranean, although its capabilities...
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Matthew C. Perry (redirect from Matthew Perry (naval officer))
American naval officer who commanded ships in several wars, including the War of 1812 and the Mexican–American War. He played a leading role in the Perry Expedition...
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East Indies Station (redirect from British Eastern Fleet)
Commander-in-Chief Mediterranean Fleet, until 17 May 1942. On 18 May 1942 the title was changed again to Flag Officer, Commanding Red Sea and Canal Area, and transferred...
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