existed until 1952. The squadron was formed in December 1904 when Cruiser Squadron was re-designated the 1st Cruiser Squadron. In March 1909, then consisting...
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The 1st Light Cruiser Squadron was a naval unit of the Royal Navy from 1913 to 1924. The 1st Light Cruiser Squadron was a Royal Navy unit of the Grand...
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Light Cruiser Squadron (United Kingdom) 7th Light Cruiser Squadron (United Kingdom) British 1st Seaward Defence Boat Squadron 1st Destroyer Squadron (United...
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The Cruiser Squadron was a naval formation of the British Home Fleet consisting of Armored cruisers of the Royal Navy from 1899 to 1905. In October 1899...
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Courageous was assigned to the 3rd Light Cruiser Squadron of the Grand Fleet. She became flagship of the 1st Cruiser Squadron near the end of 1916 when that unit...
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flagships of cruiser squadrons. Minotaur became flagship of the China Station in 1910 and Defence served as flagship of the 1st Cruiser Squadron in the Mediterranean...
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The 2nd Cruiser Squadron was a formation of cruisers of the British Royal Navy from 1904 to 1919 and from 1921 to 1941 and again from 1946 to 1952. The...
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Clinton-Baker HMS Agincourt: Capt Henry Montagu Doughty 1st Cruiser Squadron (armoured cruisers) Rear-Admiral Sir Robert Keith Arbuthnot, 4th Baronet †...
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HMS Argyll (1904) (category Devonshire-class cruisers (1903))
Devonshire-class armoured cruisers built for the Royal Navy in the first decade of the 20th century. She was assigned to the 1st Cruiser Squadron of the Channel...
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The 7th Cruiser Squadron (also known as Cruiser Force C) was a blockading force of the Royal Navy during the First World War used to close the English...
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HMS Hampshire (1903) (category Devonshire-class cruisers (1903))
Devonshire-class armoured cruisers built for the Royal Navy in the first decade of the 20th century. She was assigned to the 1st Cruiser Squadron of the Channel...
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HMS Good Hope (1901) (category Drake-class cruisers)
She became flagship of the 1st Cruiser Squadron of the Atlantic Fleet in 1906, and was the flagship of the 2nd Cruiser Squadron in 1908. She was reduced...
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HMS Monmouth (1901) (category Monmouth-class cruisers)
(each being named after a British county). She was assigned to the 1st Cruiser Squadron of the Channel Fleet upon completion in 1903. She was transferred...
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HMS Black Prince (1904) (category Duke of Edinburgh-class cruisers)
Black Prince served with the 2nd Squadron until 1907, the 1st Cruiser Squadron from 1907 to 1908, the 5th Cruiser Squadron (as part of the Atlantic Fleet)...
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Doveton Sturdee (redirect from Sir Doveton Sturdee, 1st Baronet)
he commanded two different cruisers and then three different battleships before becoming commander of the 1st Battle Squadron of the Home Fleet. He went...
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The 3rd Cruiser Squadron was a formation of cruisers of the British Royal Navy from 1902 to 1909 and 1911 to 1916 and then again from 1922 to 1941. The...
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light cruiser SMS Breslau and her three sisters were assigned to the 2nd Cruiser Squadron of the Grand Fleet. Warrior joined the 1st Cruiser Squadron of...
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the 1st Cruiser Squadron, the 1st Light Cruiser Squadron and the 6th Light Cruiser Squadron. Repulse was detached from the 1st Battle Cruiser Squadron and...
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the 3rd Light Cruiser Squadron of the Grand Fleet. After most of the 1st Cruiser Squadron was sunk at the Battle of Jutland, the squadron was re-formed...
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HMS Leviathan (1901) (category Drake-class cruisers)
before she became flagship of the 1st Cruiser Squadron. In early 1915, she was reassigned to the 6th Cruiser Squadron before she became flagship of the...
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The 18th Cruiser Squadron was a formation of cruisers of the Royal Navy from 1939 to 1942. The squadron was formed in September 1939 and was assigned to...
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The 15th Cruiser Squadron, also known as Force K, was a formation of cruisers of the British Royal Navy from 1940 to 1946. The squadron was formed in May...
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HMS Invincible (1907) was a battlecruiser of the First World War attached to the 1st Cruiser Squadron, Home Fleet at the end of 1908. She saw action at Battle of Heligoland...
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providing flights for the Royal Navy’s 1st Cruiser Squadron. By the beginning of World War II it had become a Squadron and was based in Egypt, but disbanded...
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1st Cruiser Squadron patrolled the van of Jellicoe's main battleship force as it advanced steadily to the south-east. At 17:33, the armoured cruiser HMS Black...
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the 1st Cruiser Squadron of the Mediterranean Fleet with his flag in the cruiser HMS Frobisher in September 1926. After a tour with his squadron on the...
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forces and redesignated the Northern Squadron as the 2nd Squadron (2e Escadre) and the 1st Cruiser Squadron became the 1st Light Division (1re Division légère...
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HMS Duke of Edinburgh (category Duke of Edinburgh-class cruisers)
Cruiser Squadron from 1906 to 1908 and was then transferred to the 1st Cruiser Squadron of the Channel Fleet. When the Royal Navy's cruiser squadrons...
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HMS Devonshire (1904) (category Devonshire-class cruisers (1903))
of six armoured cruiser built for the Royal Navy in the first decade of the 20th century. She was assigned to the 1st Cruiser Squadron of the Channel Fleet...
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HMS Defence (1907) (category Minotaur-class cruisers (1906))
23 March 1909. Three months later Defence was reassigned to the 1st Cruiser Squadron. She escorted the ocean liner RMS Medina in 1911–1912 while the latter...
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