The Home Fleet was a fleet of the Royal Navy that operated from the United Kingdom's territorial waters from 1902 with intervals until 1967. In 1967, it... 34 KB (2,440 words) - 07:14, 17 April 2024 |
service in 1928, and spent her peacetime career with the Atlantic and Home Fleets, sometimes serving as a flagship when her sister ship, Nelson, was being... 60 KB (8,395 words) - 08:00, 4 May 2024 |
flagship of the Mediterranean Fleet in early 1949. After her return home in mid-1949, she became flagship of the Home Fleet Training Squadron. Throughout... 43 KB (5,567 words) - 06:57, 26 March 2024 |
1907, when the Home Fleet (Heimatflotte) was renamed as the High Seas Fleet. Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz was the architect of the fleet; he envisioned... 43 KB (6,029 words) - 13:23, 1 April 2024 |
HMS Howe (32) (section Home Fleet) anti-aircraft guns and 18 20 mm (0.8 in) Oerlikon AA guns Howe joined the Home Fleet on 30 August 1942, her building time extended, owing to more urgent demands... 19 KB (2,011 words) - 11:54, 3 February 2024 |
navies continue to hold fleet reviews. Fleet reviews may also include participants and warships from multiple navies. Fleet reviews in the Commonwealth... 28 KB (3,337 words) - 19:20, 25 April 2024 |
Canadian Fleet Pacific (Maritime Forces Pacific) (HQ Esquimalt, British Columbia) Chinese treasure fleet Beiyang Fleet Nanyang Fleet East Sea Fleet North... 11 KB (986 words) - 12:24, 19 February 2024 |
HMS Hood (section Return to home waters) and participated in the destruction of the French fleet at Mers-el-Kebir. Transferred to the Home Fleet shortly afterwards, Hood was dispatched to Scapa... 80 KB (10,187 words) - 21:10, 29 April 2024 |
HMS Penelope (97) (section Home Fleet) sister ship Arethusa were reallocated to the 2nd Cruiser Squadron in the Home Fleet and arrived at Portsmouth on 11 January 1940. On 3 February she left for... 18 KB (2,086 words) - 20:43, 20 March 2024 |
Royal Navy (redirect from British Fleet) Royal Navy's strength was mostly deployed at home in the Grand Fleet, confronting the German High Seas Fleet across the North Sea. Several inconclusive... 157 KB (15,908 words) - 09:44, 30 April 2024 |
Norwegian campaign (section Fleet movements) assault of their own against the Home Fleet first. This attack sank the destroyer HMS Gurkha and then forced the Home Fleet to withdraw north when their anti-aircraft... 134 KB (15,861 words) - 01:01, 22 April 2024 |
Mediterranean and Pacific, as well as part of the British Home Fleet and Pacific Fleets. In May 1941, along with HMS Rodney, King George V was involved... 34 KB (4,004 words) - 01:33, 2 April 2024 |
Home Fleet, which was tasked with protecting convoys carrying supplies to the Soviet Union. She saw no action during this period, as the German fleet... 60 KB (8,293 words) - 07:28, 23 February 2024 |
The Home Fleet did not return to Scapa Flow so when U-47 penetrated the harbour defenses of Scapa Flow on 14 October to attack the Home Fleet, it found... 44 KB (5,795 words) - 06:49, 28 April 2024 |
HMS Furious (47) (section Home waters) the Mediterranean until February 1943 when she was transferred to the Home Fleet. Furious spent most of 1943 training, but made a number of attacks on... 51 KB (6,872 words) - 11:50, 29 March 2024 |
the Mediterranean Fleet, but was attached to the Home Fleet from March to June 1930. She relieved Courageous in the Mediterranean Fleet in June 1930 and... 45 KB (6,314 words) - 23:52, 9 March 2024 |
attack convoys. The ships were intercepted by a British force from the Home Fleet. In the resulting Battle of the Denmark Strait on 24 May, Bismarck's fuel... 36 KB (4,622 words) - 07:18, 4 May 2024 |
USS Wasp (CV-7) (section Atlantic Fleet) supporting the occupation of Iceland in 1941, Wasp joined the British Home Fleet in April 1942 and twice ferried British fighter aircraft to Malta. Wasp... 54 KB (7,073 words) - 15:36, 27 April 2024 |
Fleet 2nd Battle Squadron-1914 Grand Fleet, 1919 Atlantic Fleet. 1932 Home Fleet 3rd Battle Squadron-1914 Grand Fleet, 1919 Atlantic Fleet, 1932 Home... 36 KB (3,130 words) - 19:04, 21 April 2024 |