Commander-in-Chief, North American Station
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On lookout for U-boats in the Battle of the Atlantic, October 1941
The Commander-in-Chief, North American Station commanded the North America and West Indies Station of the Royal Navy.
Commanders
Commanders of the station have included:[1][2][3][4][5]
North American Station
- Commodore James Douglas (1746–48)
- Commodore Charles Watson (1748–49)
- Commodore Augustus Keppel (1751–55)
- Commodore Lord Alexander Colville (November 1759 – October 1762)
- Commodore Richard Spry (October 1762 – October 1763)
- Rear Admiral Lord Alexander Colville (October 1763 – September 1766)
- Captain Joseph Deane, September 1766 – November 1766 (senior captain)
- Captain Archibald Kennedy, November 1766 – July 1767 (senior captain)
- Commodore Samuel Hood (July 1767 – October 1770)
- Commodore James Gambier (October 1770 – August 1771)
- Rear Admiral John Montagu (August 1771 – June 1774)
- Vice Admiral Samuel Graves (June 1774 – January 1776)
- Vice Admiral Richard Howe (February 1776 – September 1778)
- Vice Admiral James Gambier (1778–79)
- Vice Admiral John Byron (1779)
- Vice Admiral Mariot Arbuthnot (1779–81)
- Vice Admiral Sir Thomas Graves (1781)
- Rear Admiral Robert Digby (1781–83)
- Rear Admiral Sir Charles Douglas (1783–85)
- Vice Admiral Sir Herbert Sawyer (1785–89)
- Vice Admiral Sir Richard Hughes (1789–92)
- Vice Admiral George Murray (1793–96)
- Vice Admiral George Vandeput (1797–1800)
- Vice Admiral Sir William Parker (1800–02)
- Vice Admiral Sir Andrew Mitchell (1802–06)
- Vice Admiral Sir George Cranfield-Berkeley (1806–07)
- Vice Admiral Sir John Warren (1807–10)
- Vice Admiral Sir Herbert Sawyer (1810–13)
- Admiral Sir John Warren (1813–14)
- Vice Admiral Sir Alexander Cochrane (1814–15)
- Vice Admiral Sir David Milne (1816)
- Vice Admiral Sir Edward Colpoys (1816–21)
North America and West Indies Station
- Vice Admiral Sir William Fahie (1821–24)
- Vice Admiral Sir Willoughby Lake (1824–27)
- Vice Admiral Sir Charles Ogle (1827–30)
- Vice Admiral Sir Edward Colpoys (1830–32)
- Vice Admiral Sir George Cockburn (1832–36)
- Vice Admiral Sir Peter Halkett (1836–37)
- Vice Admiral Sir Charles Paget (1837–39)
- Vice Admiral Sir Thomas Harvey (1839–41)
- Vice Admiral Sir Charles Adam (1841–44)
- Vice Admiral Sir Francis Austen (1844–48)
- Vice Admiral Sir Thomas Cochrane (1848–51)
- Vice Admiral Sir George Seymour (1851–53)
- Vice Admiral Sir Arthur Fanshawe (1853–56)
- Vice Admiral Sir Houston Stewart (1856–60)
- Vice Admiral Sir Alexander Milne (1860–64)
- Vice Admiral Sir James Hope (1864–67)
- Vice Admiral Sir Rodney Mundy (1867–69)
- Vice Admiral Sir George Wellesley (1869–70)
- Vice Admiral Sir Edward Fanshawe (1870–73)
- Vice Admiral Sir George Wellesley (1873–75)
- Vice Admiral Sir Astley Key (1875–78)
- Vice Admiral Sir Edward Inglefield (1878–79)
- Vice Admiral Sir Francis McClintock (1879–82)
- Vice Admiral Sir John Commerell (1882–85)
- Vice Admiral The Earl of Clanwilliam (1885–86)
- Vice Admiral Sir Algernon Lyons (1886–88)
- Vice Admiral Sir George Watson (1888–91)
- Vice Admiral Sir John Hopkins (1891–95)
- Vice Admiral Sir James Erskine (1895–97)
- Vice Admiral Sir Jackie Fisher (1897–99)
- Vice Admiral Sir Frederick Bedford (1899–15 July 1902)
- Vice Admiral Sir Archibald Douglas (15 July 1902–1904)[6]
- Vice Admiral Sir Day Bosanquet (1904–07)
- Vacant (1907–13)
- Vice Admiral Sir Christopher Cradock (1913–14)
- Rear Admiral Robert Hornby (1914–15)
- Vice Admiral Sir George Patey (1915–16)
- Vice Admiral Sir Montague Browning (1916–18)
- Vice Admiral Sir William Grant (1918–19)
- Vice Admiral Sir Morgan Singer (1919)
- Vice Admiral Sir Trevylyan Napier (1919–20)
- Vice Admiral Sir William Pakenham (1920–23)
- Vice Admiral Sir Michael Culme-Seymour (1923–24)
- Vice Admiral Sir James Fergusson (1924–26)
America and West Indies Station
- Vice Admiral Sir Walter Cowan (1926–28)
- Vice Admiral Sir Cyril Fuller (1928–30)
- Vice Admiral Sir Vernon Haggard (1930–32)
- Vice Admiral Sir Reginald Plunkett (1932–34)
- Vice Admiral Sir Matthew Best (1934–37)
- Vice Admiral Sir Sidney Meyrick (1937–40)
- Vice Admiral Sir Charles Kennedy-Purvis (1940–42)
- Vice Admiral Sir Alban Curteis (1942–44)
- Vice Admiral Sir Irvine Glennie (1944–45)
- Vice Admiral Sir William Tennant (1946–49)
- Vice Admiral Sir Richard Symonds-Tayler (1949–51)
- Vice Admiral Sir William Andrewes (1951–53)
- Vice Admiral Sir John Stevens (1953–55)
- Vice Admiral Sir John Eaton (1955–56)
References
- ↑ Stout, Neil R. The Royal Navy in America, 1760-1775: A Study of Enforcement of British Colonial Policy in the Era of the American Revolution. Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, MD, 1973, p.199 via Gaspee Virtual Archives: Research Notes on Admiral John Montagu
- ↑ Commanders-in-Chief, North America, 1830-99
- ↑ Commanders-in-Chief 1904 – 1975
- ↑ Bermuda's Royal Navy base at Ireland Island from 1815 to the 1960s
- ↑ Senior Royal Navy appointments Archived March 15, 2012, at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times (36822). London. 17 July 1902. p. 9.
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