Port Squadrons

• Faslane Flotilla
  HMNB Clyde
  Her Majesty's Naval Base Clyde is one of three operating bases in the United Kingdom for the Royal Navy...
  
  
• Devonport Flotilla
• Portsmouth Flotilla

Aircraft Carriers

• 1st Aircraft Carrier Squadron - British Pacific Fleet
  British Pacific Fleet
  The British Pacific Fleet was a British Commonwealth naval force which saw action against Japan during World War II. The fleet was composed of British Commonwealth naval vessels. The BPF formally came into being on 22 November 1944...
  
  
• 2nd Aircraft Carrier Squadron - Home Fleet
• 3rd Aircraft Carrier Squadron - listed in Flight, 20 April 1951, p.483 with Home Fleet. Commanded at the time by then Rear-Admiral Caspar John
  Caspar John
  Admiral of the Fleet Sir Caspar John GCB was the British First Sea Lord from 1960 to 1963. He was pioneer in the Fleet Air Arm, and rose to become Vice-Chief of Naval Staff to Sea Lord Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma in 1957 and subsequently First Sea Lord from 1960 to 1963.-Early...
  
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• 11th Aircraft Carrier Squadron - Rear Admiral Cecil Harcourt hoisted his flag in HMS Colossus in August 1945, commanding the 11th Aircraft Carrier Squadron (HMS Colossus, , , and ). This force was sent to re-occupy Hong Kong.
• 21st Aircraft Carrier Squadron - Commander-in-Chief, East Indies
• 30th Aircraft Carrier Squadron - Fleet Train, British Pacific Fleet
  British Pacific Fleet
  The British Pacific Fleet was a British Commonwealth naval force which saw action against Japan during World War II. The fleet was composed of British Commonwealth naval vessels. The BPF formally came into being on 22 November 1944...
  
  , August 1945.

Battleships

• 1st Battle Squadron
  1st Battle Squadron (United Kingdom)
  The British 1st Battle Squadron was a squadron of battleships, initially part of the Royal Navy's Home Fleet, renamed the Grand Fleet during World War I...
  
  
• 2nd Battle Squadron
  2nd Battle Squadron (United Kingdom)
  The British Royal Navy 2nd Battle Squadron was a naval squadron consisting of battleships. The 2nd Battle Squadron was initially part of the Royal Navy's Grand Fleet. After World War I the Grand Fleet was reverted back to its original name, the Atlantic Fleet...
  
  
• British 3rd Battle Squadron
  3rd Battle Squadron (United Kingdom)
  The British Royal Navy 3rd Battle Squadron was a naval squadron consisting of battleships and other vessels, active from at least 1914 to 1945. The 3rd Battle Squadron was initially part of the Royal Navy's Home Fleet. During the First World War, the Home Fleet was renamed the Grand Fleet...
  
  
• British 4th Battle Squadron
  4th Battle Squadron (United Kingdom)
  The British Royal Navy 4th Battle Squadron was a squadron consisting of battleships. The 4th Battle Squadron was initially part of the Royal Navy's Home Fleet. During World War I the Home Fleet was renamed the Grand Fleet...
  
  
• British 5th Battle Squadron
• British 6th Battle Squadron
  6th Battle Squadron (United Kingdom)
  The British 6th Battle Squadron was a Royal Navy squadron consisting of Battleships serving in the Grand Fleet.-August 1914:In August 1914, the 6th Battle Squadron was based at Portland and comprised a number of the older pre-dreadnought battleships. These included: and transferred to the 5th...
  
  
• British 7th Battle Squadron
• British 8th Battle Squadron
• British 9th Battle Squadron
  9th Battle Squadron (United Kingdom)
  The British 9th Battle Squadron was a short-lived Royal Navy squadron consisting of Battleships serving in the Grand Fleet.-August 1914:In August 1914, the 9th Battle Squadron was formed at Grimsby on 27 July 1914, and comprised a number of the older Majestic-class pre-dreadnought battleships...
  
  

Battlecruisers

• British 1st Battlecruiser Squadron
  1st Battlecruiser Squadron (United Kingdom)
  The First Battlecruiser Squadron was a Royal Navy squadron of battlecruisers that saw service as part of the Grand Fleet during the First World War. It was created in 1909 as the First Cruiser Squadron and was renamed in 1913 to First Battle Cruiser Squadron. It participated in the battles of...
  
  
• British 2nd Battlecruiser Squadron
  2nd Battlecruiser Squadron (United Kingdom)
  The 2nd Battlecruiser Squadron was a Royal Navy squadron of battlecruisers that saw service as part of the Grand Fleet during the First World War.-August 1914:In August 1914, the 2nd Battlecruiser Squadron was in the Mediterranean, and consisted of:-1915:...
  
  
• British 3rd Battlecruiser Squadron
  3rd Battlecruiser Squadron (United Kingdom)
  The 3rd Battlecruiser Squadron was a short-lived Royal Navy squadron of battlecruisers that saw service as part of the Grand Fleet during the First World War.-Creation:...
  
  
• British Battlecruiser Squadron

Cruisers

Starting around the time that steam cruisers became popular in the 1870s, the Royal Navy

Royal Navy

The Royal Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the British Armed Forces. Founded in the 16th century, it is the oldest service branch and is known as the Senior Service...

 tended to organise such ships into groups called Cruiser Squadrons. Squadrons were commanded by a Rear-Admiral whose title was given as Flag Officer Cruiser Squadron n, or CSn for short (e.g. the officer commanding the 3rd Cruiser Squadron would be CS3).

During peace time the grouping was primarily for administrative purposes, but during war the whole squadron tended to be operated as a unified fighting unit and such units would train in this formation during peace. In the main fighting fleets (Home Fleet and Mediterranean Fleet

Mediterranean Fleet

Several countries have or have had a Mediterranean Fleet in their navy. See:* Mediterranean Fleet * French Mediterranean Fleet* Mediterranean Squadron * United States Sixth Fleet...

) members of a given squadron were normally of the same or similar classes. The use of Cruiser Squadrons died out as the number of such ships decreased following World War II

World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

.

• 1st Cruiser Squadron
  1st Cruiser Squadron
  The First Cruiser Squadron was a Royal Navy squadron of armored cruisers that saw service as part of the Mediterranean and Grand Fleets during the First World War. It was originally formed in 1909, but was renamed on 1 January 1913 to First Battle Cruiser Squadron...
  
   - Mediterranean Fleet
  Mediterranean Fleet
  Several countries have or have had a Mediterranean Fleet in their navy. See:* Mediterranean Fleet * French Mediterranean Fleet* Mediterranean Squadron * United States Sixth Fleet...
  
  , Second World War and afterwards - Mountbatten?
• 2nd Cruiser Squadron - at Jutland, HMS Minotaur
  HMS Minotaur
  Six ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Minotaur after the minotaur, a creature in Greek mythology:*HMS Minotaur was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line launched in 1793...
  
  , HMS Hampshire
  HMS Hampshire
  Five ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Hampshire after the English county: was a 46-gun ship launched in 1653 and sunk in 1697 in action with the French ship Pelican in Hudson Bay during the War of the Grand Alliance. was a 48-gun fourth-rate launched in 1698 and broken up in 1739. was a...
  
  , HMS Shannon
  HMS Shannon
  Nine ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Shannon, after the River Shannon, the longest river in Ireland:*HMS Shannon was a 28-gun sixth-rate launched in 1757 and broken up 1765....
  
  , and HMS Cochrane
  HMS Cochrane
  Two ships and a shore establishment of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Cochrane, after Admiral Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald: was a Duke of Edinburgh class armoured cruiser launched in 1905. She was stranded in 1918 and broken up....
  
  . Home Fleet in the interwar period. HMS Dorsetshire
  HMS Dorsetshire
  Three ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Dorsetshire, after the traditional county of Dorsetshire: was an 80-gun third-rate launched in 1694, rebuilt in 1712, and sold in 1749. was a 70-gun third-rate launched in 1757 and broken up in 1775. was a County-class heavy cruiser launched in 1929...
  
  , HMS York
  HMS York
  Nine ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS York after the city of York, the county seat of Yorkshire, on the River Ouse.*HMS York was a 52-gun Speaker class frigate launched in 1654 as Marston Moor. She was renamed York upon the Restoration in 1660...
  
   and HMS Exeter
  HMS Exeter
  Five ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Exeter after the city of Exeter in Devon. was a 70-gun third-rate launched in 1680. She was damaged in an explosion in 1691 and was hulked. She was broken up in 1717. was a 60-gun fourth-rate launched in 1697. She was rebuilt to carry 58 guns in 1744...
  
   in 1932.
• 3rd Cruiser Squadron, Mediterranean
• 4th Cruiser Squadron: 1939 East India Station HMS Gloucester
  HMS Gloucester (C62)
  HMS Gloucester was one of the second group of three ships of the "Town" class of light cruisers. She was launched on 19 October 1937 prior to commissioning on 31 January 1939....
  
  , HMS Liverpool
  HMS Liverpool (C11)
  HMS Liverpool , named after the port city of Liverpool in north-west England, was a Town-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy in service from 1938 to 1952....
  
  , HMS Manchester
  HMS Manchester (C15)
  The second HMS Manchester was a Town-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy, belonging to the Gloucester subclass. She was laid down by Hawthorn Leslie at Hebburn in March 1936, launched in April the following year and commissioned in August 1938...
  
  ; 1945 British Pacific Fleet
  British Pacific Fleet
  The British Pacific Fleet was a British Commonwealth naval force which saw action against Japan during World War II. The fleet was composed of British Commonwealth naval vessels. The BPF formally came into being on 22 November 1944...
  
   HMS Swiftsure
  HMS Swiftsure (08)
  HMS Swiftsure was a Minotaur-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy. She was laid down by Vickers Armstrong at Newcastle-on-Tyne on 22 September 1941, launched on 4 February 1943 by Lady Wake-Walker and commissioned on 22 June 1944....
  
  , HMS Argonaut
  HMS Argonaut (61)
  HMS Argonaut was a Dido class cruiser-References:***...
  
  , HMS Black Prince
  HMS Black Prince (81)
  HMS Black Prince was a Dido-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy, of the Bellona subgroup. The cruiser was commissioned in 1943, and served during World War II on the Arctic convoys, during the Normandy landings, and as part of the British Pacific Fleet. In 1946, the cruiser was loaned to the...
  
  , HMS Euryalus
  HMS Euryalus (42)
  HMS Euryalus was a Dido-class cruiser of the Royal Navy. She was built at Chatham Dockyard UK), with the keel being laid down on 21 October 1937. She was launched on 6 June 1939, and commissioned 30 June 1941. Euryalus was the last cruiser that Chatham Dockyard built.-Mediterranean Service:-Second...
  
  , HMNZS Gambia
• 5th Cruiser Squadron 1939 China Station HMS Cornwall
  HMS Cornwall (56)
  HMS Cornwall was a County class heavy cruiser of the Kent subclass built for the Royal Navy in the mid-1920s. She was built at Devonport Dockyard .-History:...
  
   HMS Dorsetshire
  HMS Dorsetshire (40)
  HMS Dorsetshire was a heavy cruiser of the County class of the Royal Navy, named after the English county . She was launched on 29 January 1929 at Portsmouth Dockyard, UK. During the Second World War, she was last commanded by Captain Augustus Agar V.C....
  
   HMS Kent
  HMS Kent (54)
  HMS Kent was a heavy cruiser built for the Royal Navy in the late 1920s. She was the lead ship of the Kent subclass. After completion the ship was sent to the China Station where she remained until the beginning of the Second World War, aside from a major refit in 1937–38...
  
   HMS Birmingham
  HMS Birmingham (C19)
  HMS Birmingham was a member of the first group of five ships of the "Town" class of light cruisers. She was built at Devonport Dockyard , and launched on 1 September 1936.-Early career:...
  
  
• 6th Cruiser Squadron
• 7th Cruiser Squadron 1940 Mediterranean Fleet HMS Gloucester
  HMS Gloucester (C62)
  HMS Gloucester was one of the second group of three ships of the "Town" class of light cruisers. She was launched on 19 October 1937 prior to commissioning on 31 January 1939....
  
  , HMS Neptune
  HMS Neptune (20)
  HMS Neptune was a Leander class light cruiser which served with the Royal Navy during World War II.Neptune was the fourth ship of its class and was the ninth Royal Navy vessel to carry the name...
  
  , HMS Orion
  HMS Orion (85)
  HMS Orion was a Leander class light cruiser which served with distinction in the Royal Navy during World War II.She received 13 battle honours, a record only exceeded by one other ship, and matched by two others.-History:...
  
  , HMAS Sydney
  HMAS Sydney (1934)
  HMAS Sydney , named for the Australian city of Sydney, was one of three Modified Leander class light cruisers operated by the Royal Australian Navy...
  
   and HMS Liverpool
  HMS Liverpool (C11)
  HMS Liverpool , named after the port city of Liverpool in north-west England, was a Town-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy in service from 1938 to 1952....
  
  
• British 8th Cruiser Squadron
• British 9th Cruiser Squadron
• British 10th Cruiser Squadron - First World War operated Northern Patrol checking trade routes to Germany
• British 11th Cruiser Squadron
• British 12th Cruiser Squadron
• British 15th Cruiser Squadron 1942 Mediterranean Fleet HMS Cleopatra
  HMS Cleopatra (33)
  HMS Cleopatra was a Dido-class cruiser of the Royal Navy. She was built by R. and W. Hawthorn, Leslie and Company, Limited , with the keel being laid down on 5 January 1939...
  
  , Arethusa
  HMS Arethusa (26)
  HMS Arethusa was the name ship of her class of light cruisers built for the Royal Navy. She was built by Chatham Dockyard , with the keel being laid down on 25 January 1933...
  
  , Dido
  HMS Dido (37)
  HMS Dido was the name ship of her class of light cruisers for the Royal Navy. She was built by Cammell Laird Shipyard , with the keel being laid down on 26 October 1937. She was launched on 18 July 1939 and commissioned on 30 September 1940.-Mediterranean:On 18 August 1942 Captain H. W. U...
  
  , Euryalus
  HMS Euryalus (42)
  HMS Euryalus was a Dido-class cruiser of the Royal Navy. She was built at Chatham Dockyard UK), with the keel being laid down on 21 October 1937. She was launched on 6 June 1939, and commissioned 30 June 1941. Euryalus was the last cruiser that Chatham Dockyard built.-Mediterranean Service:-Second...
  
   and Orion
  HMS Orion (85)
  HMS Orion was a Leander class light cruiser which served with distinction in the Royal Navy during World War II.She received 13 battle honours, a record only exceeded by one other ship, and matched by two others.-History:...
  
  
• 18th Cruiser Squadron

• British 1st Light Cruiser Squadron
• British 2nd Light Cruiser Squadron
• British 3rd Light Cruiser Squadron
• British 4th Light Cruiser Squadron
• British 5th Light Cruiser Squadron
• British 6th Light Cruiser Squadron
• British 7th Light Cruiser Squadron

Destroyers

• British 1st Destroyer Squadron
• British 2nd Destroyer Squadron
• British 3rd Destroyer Squadron
• British 4th Destroyer Squadron
• British 5th Destroyer Squadron
• British 6th Destroyer Squadron
• British 7th Destroyer Squadron
• British 8th Destroyer Squadron

Escorts

• British 21st Escort Squadron
• British 22nd Escort Squadron
• British 23rd Escort Squadron
• British 24th Escort Squadron
• British 25th Escort Squadron
• British 26th Escort Squadron
• British 27th Escort Squadron
• British 28th Escort Squadron
• British 29th Escort Squadron
• British 30th Escort Squadron

Fast Patrol Boats

• British 1st Fast Patrol Boat Squadron
• British 2nd Fast Patrol Boat Squadron
• British Fast Patrol Boat Squadron

Frigates

• British 1st Frigate Squadron
• British 2nd Frigate Squadron
• British 3rd Frigate Squadron
• British 4th Frigate Squadron
• British 5th Frigate Squadron
• British 6th Frigate Squadron
• British 7th Frigate Squadron
• British 8th Frigate Squadron
• British 9th Frigate Squadron
• British 17th Frigate Squadron
• British 20th Frigate Squadron

Coastal Minesweepers

• British 100th Minesweeper Squadron
• British 101st Minesweeper Squadron
• British 105th Minesweeper Squadron
• British 106th Minesweeper Squadron
• British 108th Minesweeper Squadron
• British 120th Minesweeper Squadron

Fleet Minesweepers

• British 1st Minesweeper Squadron
• British 2nd Minesweeper Squadron
• British 3rd Minesweeper Squadron
• British 4th Minesweeper Squadron
• British 5th Minesweeper Squadron
• British 6th Minesweeper Squadron

Inshore Minesweepers

• British 50th Minesweeper Squadron
• British 51st Minesweeper Squadron
• British 52nd Minesweeper Squadron
• British 232nd Minesweeper Squadron

Mine Countermeasures

• British 1st Minecountermeasures Squadron
• British 2nd Minecountermeasures Squadron
• British 3rd Minecountermeasures Squadron
• British 5th Minecountermeasures Squadron
• British 6th Minecountermeasures Squadron
• British 7th Minecountermeasures Squadron
• British 8th Minecountermeasures Squadron
• British 9th Minecountermeasures Squadron
• British 10th Minecountermeasures Squadron
• British 11th Minecountermeasures Squadron

Submarines

• 1st Submarine Squadron
• 2nd Submarine Squadron
• 3rd Submarine Squadron
• 4th Submarine Squadron (United Kingdom) - with China Station
  China Station
  The China Station was a historical formation of the British Royal Navy. It was formally the units and establishments responsible to the Commander-in-Chief, China....
  
   1939. With headquarters at Singapore, the then-named Fourth Submarine Flotilla comprised Rorqual, Grampus, Regent, Rover, Parthian, Olympus, Proteus, Regulus, Rainbow, Phoenix, Perseus, Pandora Orpheus, Odin, and Otus. Trincomalee
  Trincomalee
  Trincomalee is a port city in Eastern Province, Sri Lanka and lies on the east coast of the island, about 113 miles south of Jaffna. It has a population of approximately 100,000 . The city is built on a peninsula, which divides the inner and outer harbours. Overlooking the Kottiyar Bay,...
  
   May 1944, Perth
  Perth, Western Australia
  Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia and the fourth most populous city in Australia. The Perth metropolitan area has an estimated population of almost 1,700,000....
  
  , Australia, after October 1944 supported by the depot ship . Australia postwar (decision to host flotilla seems to have been made in 1949). The 4th Submarine Squadron, which included "T" class submarines, was disbanded on 10 January 1969 when the 1st Australian Submarine Squadron comprising and was founded. departed Sydney for the United Kingdom that day.
• 5th Submarine Squadron
• 6th Submarine Squadron
• 7th Submarine Squadron
• 10th Submarine Squadron (United Kingdom) - Resolution class submarine
  Resolution class submarine
  The Resolution-class submarine armed with the Polaris missile was the United Kingdom's primary nuclear deterrent from the late 1960s to 1994, when they were replaced by the Vanguard-class submarine carrying the Trident II.-Background:...
  
  s and Vanguard class SSBNs, based Faslane Naval Base, Scotland.

Training

• British 2nd Training Squadron
• British 3rd Training Squadron
• British 4th Training Squadron
• British Home Fleet Training Squadron

Destroyers

• British 1st Destroyer Flotilla
• British 2nd Destroyer Flotilla
• British 3rd Destroyer Flotilla
• British 4th Destroyer Flotilla: 1945 British Pacific Fleet
  British Pacific Fleet
  The British Pacific Fleet was a British Commonwealth naval force which saw action against Japan during World War II. The fleet was composed of British Commonwealth naval vessels. The BPF formally came into being on 22 November 1944...
  
   HMAS Quickmatch
  HMAS Quickmatch (G92)
  HMAS Quickmatch , named for the quick-match, a fast burning match used for lighting cannon, was a Q class destroyer operated by the Royal Australian Navy . Although commissioned into the RAN in 1942, the ship was initially the property of the Royal Navy. Quickmatch served with both the British...
  
  , HMAS Quiberon
  HMAS Quiberon (G81)
  HMAS Quiberon was a Q class destroyer of the Royal Australian Navy . Although built for the Royal Navy and remaining British property until 1950, Quiberon was one of two Q class destroyers commissioned into the RAN during World War II...
  
  , HMAS Queenborough, HMS Quality
  HMS Quality (G62)
  HMS Quality was a Q class destroyer built for the Royal Navy. Entering service in 1942, the destroyer served in several theatres of World War II. Following the war's conclusion, the ship was transferred to the Royal Australian Navy , commissioning as HMAS Quality in late 1945...
  
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• British 5th Destroyer Flotilla
• British 6th Destroyer Flotilla
• British 7th Destroyer Flotilla: 1941 British Eastern Fleet
  British Eastern Fleet
  The British Eastern Fleet was a fleet of the Royal Navy which existed from 1941 to 1971...
  
   HMAS Norman
  HMAS Norman (G49)
  HMAS Norman was an N class operated by the Royal Australian Navy during World War II. Entering service in 1941, the ship was on loan from the Royal Navy....
  
  , HMAS Napier
  HMAS Napier (G97)
  HMAS Napier was an N class destroyer serving in the Royal Australian Navy during World War II. Built During 1939 and 1940, the destroyer was commissioned into the RAN, although she was ordered and owned by the British government...
  
  , HMAS Nestor
  HMAS Nestor (G02)
  HMAS Nestor was an N class destroyer of the Royal Australian Navy . Built in Scotland, Nestor was commissioned in February 1941; although manned by Australians and commissioned as an Australian warship, she remained the property of the Royal Navy.Entering service in 1941, Nestor spent most of her...
  
   and HMAS Nizam
  HMAS Nizam (G38)
  HMAS Nizam was an N class destroyer of the Royal Australian Navy . The destroyer, named after Sir Osman Ali Khan, The Last Nizam of Hyderabad, was commissioned into the RAN in 1940, although the ship remained the property of the Royal Navy for her entire career.Nizam spent the early part of her...
  
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• British 8th Destroyer Flotilla: Force H
  Force H
  Force H was a British naval formation during the Second World War. It was formed in 1940 to replace French naval power in the western Mediterranean that had been removed by the French armistice with Nazi Germany....
  
   HMS Faulknor
  HMS Faulknor (H62)
  HMS Faulknor was a F class destroyer flotilla leader of the British Royal Navy in commission from 1934. The ship had a particularly active operational role during World War II, being awarded 11 battle honours, and was known as "The hardest worked destroyer in the Fleet"...
  
  , HMS Forester
  HMS Forester (H74)
  HMS Forester was a F class destroyer of the British Royal Navy, commissioned in 1935, that saw service in World War II, seeing action in Norway, in the Mediterranean, on the Russian and Atlantic Convoys, and during the Normandy landings before being sold for scrap in early 1946.-Construction:The...
  
  , HMS Foresight
  HMS Foresight (H68)
  HMS Foresight was a Royal Navy F class destroyer. She operated as a fast minesweeper during World War II and was scuttled after being damaged in an aerial attack during Operation Pedestal, an attempt to bring supplies to Malta....
  
  , HMS Firedrake
  HMS Firedrake (H79)
  HMS Firedrake was an F-class destroyer of the Royal Navy built in 1934. She took part in the Battle of the Atlantic and was torpedoed in 1942.-Construction:...
  
  , HMS Fortune
  HMS Fortune (H70)
  HMS Fortune was an F class destroyer of the Royal Navy. She sank a U boat in 1939 and was transferred to Canada in 1943, becoming ....
  
  , HMS Fearless
  HMS Fearless (H67)
  HMS Fearless was an E class destroyer built for the Royal Navy, that was commissioned in 1934, and saw service early in World War II before being sunk in July 1941.-Construction:...
  
  , HMS Fury
  HMS Fury (H76)
  HMS Fury was an F class destroyer of the Royal Navy. She was ordered from the yards of J. Samuel White, of Cowes, Isle of Wight on 17 March 1933 and was laid down on the 19 May of that year. She was launched on 10 September 1934 and commissioned on 18 May 1935...
  
  , HMS Foxhound
  HMS Foxhound (H69)
  HMS Foxhound was an Interwar standard that served the Royal Navy from 1935 to 1944.She was laid down on 21 August 1933 at John Brown Shipbuilding & Engineering Company Ltd. Clydebank and launched on 12 October 1934...
  
  
• British 9th Destroyer Flotilla
• British 10th Destroyer Flotilla
• British 11th Destroyer Flotilla: 1939 Home Fleet HMS Vanquisher, HMS Vansittart
  HMS Vansittart (D64)
  HMS Vansittart was an Admiralty Modified W destroyer of the Royal Navy which saw service in the Second World War. So far she has been the only ship of the navy to bear the name Vansittart.-Construction and commissioning:...
  
  , HMS Vimy, HMS Walker, HMS Warwick
  HMS Warwick (D25)
  HMS Warwick was a Admiralty 'W' class destroyer built in 1917.She saw service in both the First and Second World Wars, before being torpedoed and sunk in January 1944.-Construction:...
  
  , HMS Whirlwind
  HMS Whirlwind (D30)
  The first HMS Whirlwind was an W-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy that saw service during World War I and the World War II....
  
   and HMS Winchelsea
  HMS Winchelsea (D46)
  HMS Winchelsea was a W Class destroyer of the Royal Navy, ordered 9 December 1916 from J. Samuel White at Cowes during the 1916-17 Build Programme....
  
  
• British 12th Destroyer Flotilla
• British 13th Destroyer Flotilla
• British 14th Destroyer Flotilla 1942 Mediterranean Fleet HMS Jervis
  HMS Jervis (F00)
  HMS Jervis was a J-class destroyer of the Royal Navy named after Admiral John Jervis . Jervis was laid down by R. and W. Hawthorn, Leslie and Company, Limited, at Hebburn-on-Tyne on 26 August 1937...
  
  , Javelin
  HMS Javelin (F61)
  HMS Javelin was a J-class destroyer of the Royal Navy laid down by John Brown and Company, Limited, at Clydebank in Scotland on 11 October 1937, launched on 21 December 1938, and commissioned on 10 June 1939....
  
  , Kelvin
  HMS Kelvin (F37)
  HMS Kelvin was a K-class destroyer of the Royal Navy laid down by the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Limited, at Govan in Scotland on 5 October 1937, launched on 19 January 1939 and commissioned on 27 November 1939....
  
  , Nubian
  HMS Nubian (F36)
  HMS Nubian was a Tribal-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy that saw much distinguished service in World War II.She won 13 battle honours, a record only exceeded by one other ship, and matched by two others....
  
  , Pakenham, Paladin
  HMS Paladin (G69)
  HMS Paladin was a P-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy that saw service during the Second World War. She was built by John Brown and Co. Ltd., Clydebank...
  
   and Petard
  HMS Petard (G56)
  HMS Petard was a "P"-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy that saw service during World War II. She was one of the three "P" class ships, out of the original eight, to survive the war in a serviceable condition....
  
  
• British 15th Destroyer Flotilla
• British 16th Destroyer Flotilla
• British 17th Destroyer Flotilla
• British 18th Destroyer Flotilla
• British 19th Destroyer Flotilla: Force H
  Force H
  Force H was a British naval formation during the Second World War. It was formed in 1940 to replace French naval power in the western Mediterranean that had been removed by the French armistice with Nazi Germany....
  
   HMS LagosHMS Laforey
  HMS Laforey (G99)
  HMS Laforey was a L class destroyer of the Royal Navy. She was commissioned in and served during the Second World War, and was torpedoed and sunk by a U-boat in 1944...
  
  , HMS Lightning
  HMS Lightning (G55)
  HMS Lightning was an L-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. She was launched on 22 April 1940 and sunk on 12 March 1943 by German Motor Torpedo Boat S-55....
  
  , HMS Lance
  HMS Lance (G87)
  HMS Lance was an L-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. She entered service during World War II, and had a short but eventful career, serving in Home waters and the Mediterranean Sea. She was damaged in two consecutive air attacks at Malta in 1942. She was towed back to Britain, declared a...
  
  , HMS Lively
  HMS Lively (G40)
  HMS Lively was an L-class destroyer of the Royal Navy.She served during the Second World War, and was sunk in the Mediterranean in an air attack on 11 May 1942....
  
  
• British 20th Destroyer Flotilla
• British 21st Destroyer Flotilla: 1939 China Station
  British Eastern Fleet
  The British Eastern Fleet was a fleet of the Royal Navy which existed from 1941 to 1971...
  
   HMS Duncan
  HMS Duncan (D99)
  HMS Duncan was a D-class destroyer leader built for the Royal Navy in the early 1930s. The ship was initially assigned to the Mediterranean Fleet before she was transferred to the China Station in early 1935 where she remained until mid-1939. Duncan returned to the Mediterranean Fleet just after...
  
  , HMS Decoy
  HMS Decoy (H75)
  HMS Decoy was a D-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. Ordered in 1931, the ship was constructed by Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company, and entered naval service in 1933. Decoy was initially assigned to the Mediterranean Fleet before she was transferred to the China Station in early 1935...
  
  , HMS Defender
  HMS Defender (H07)
  HMS Defender was a D-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy in the early 1930s. The ship was initially assigned to the Mediterranean Fleet before she was transferred to the China Station in early 1935. She was temporarily deployed in the Red Sea during late 1935 during the Abyssinia Crisis,...
  
  , HMS Delight
  HMS Delight (H38)
  HMS Delight was a D-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy in the early 1930s. Delight was initially assigned to the Mediterranean Fleet before she was transferred to the China Station in early 1935. She was temporarily deployed in the Red Sea during late 1935 during the Abyssinia Crisis, before...
  
  , HMS Duchess
  HMS Duchess (H64)
  HMS Duchess was a D-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy in the early 1930s. The ship was initially assigned to the Mediterranean Fleet before she was transferred to the China Station in early 1935. She was temporarily deployed in the Red Sea during late 1935 during the Abyssinia Crisis, before...
  
  , HMS Dainty
  HMS Dainty (H53)
  HMS Dainty was a D-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy in the early 1930s. The ship was initially assigned to the Mediterranean Fleet before she was transferred to the China Station in early 1935. She was temporarily deployed in the Red Sea during late 1935 during the Abyssinia Crisis, before...
  
  , HMS Daring
  HMS Daring (H16)
  HMS Daring was a D-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy in the early 1930s. The ship spent the bulk of her career on the China Station. She was briefly commanded by Louis Mountbatten before World War II. Daring escorted convoys in the Red Sea in October–November 1939 and then returned to the UK...
  
  , HMS Diamond
  HMS Diamond (H22)
  HMS Diamond was a D-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy in the early 1930s. The ship spent the bulk of her career on the China Station. She was briefly assigned to the Mediterranean Fleet in 1939 before she was transferred to West Africa for convoy escort duties...
  
   and HMS Diana
  HMS Diana (H49)
  HMS Diana was a D-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. Ordered in 1931, the ship was constructed by Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company, and entered naval service in 1932. Diana was initially assigned to the Mediterranean Fleet before she was transferred to the China Station in early 1935...
  
  
• British 22nd Destroyer Flotilla
• British 23rd Destroyer Flotilla: formerly French small destroyers Bouclier, Branlebas, L'Incomprise, La Cordeliere, La Flore, La Melpomène
• British 24th Destroyer Flotilla
• British 25th Destroyer Flotilla: 1945 British Pacific Fleet
  British Pacific Fleet
  The British Pacific Fleet was a British Commonwealth naval force which saw action against Japan during World War II. The fleet was composed of British Commonwealth naval vessels. The BPF formally came into being on 22 November 1944...
  
   HMS Grenville
  HMS Grenville (R97)
  HMS Grenville, pennant number R97, was the second ship of this name to serve with the Royal Navy in World War II. HMS Grenville and seven other U class destroyers were ordered as part of the Emergency Programme...
  
  , HMS Ulster
  HMS Ulster (R83)
  HMS Ulster was a U-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy that saw service during World War II. She was later converted into a Type 15 fast anti-submarine frigate, with the new pennant number F83.-Notes:...
  
  , HMS Undine
  HMS Undine (R42)
  HMS Undine was a U-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy that saw service during World War II. She was later converted into a Type 15 fast anti-submarine frigate, with the new pennant number F141....
  
  , HMS Urania
  HMS Urania (R05)
  HMS Urania was a U-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy that saw service during World War II.She was converted into a reserve fleet accomodation ship in in 1949, and was based at Devonport. She was then converted again into a Type 15 fast anti-submarine frigate, with her pennant number changed...
  
  , HMS Undaunted
  HMS Undaunted (R53)
  HMS Undaunted was an U-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy that saw service during World War II. She was later converted into a Type 15 fast anti-submarine frigate, with the new pennant number F53.-Operations against the Tirpitz:...
  
  , HMS Ursa
  HMS Ursa (R22)
  HMS Ursa was a U-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy that saw service during World War II. She was later converted into a Type 15 fast anti-submarine frigate, with the new pennant number F200.In September 1955 at Chatham dockyard...
  
  , HMS Ulysses
  HMS Ulysses (R69)
  HMS Ulysses was an U-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy that saw service during World War II. She was later converted into a Type 15 fast anti-submarine frigate, with the new pennant number F17....
  
  , HMS Urchin
  HMS Urchin (R99)
  HMS Urchin was a U-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy that saw service during World War II. She was later converted into a Type 15 fast anti-submarine frigate, with the new pennant number F196. She served off Iceland during the 'Cod wars' in 1959....
  
  
• British 26th Destroyer Flotilla: 1945 British Eastern Fleet
  British Eastern Fleet
  The British Eastern Fleet was a fleet of the Royal Navy which existed from 1941 to 1971...
  
   HMS Saumarez
  HMS Saumarez (G12)
  HMS Saumarez was an S class destroyer of the Royal Navy, completed on 1 July 1943. As a flotilla leader, her standard displacement was 20 tons heavier than other ships of her class...
  
  , HMS Verulam
  HMS Verulam (R28)
  HMS Verulam was an V-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy that saw service during World War II. She was later converted into a Type 15 fast anti-submarine frigate, with the new pennant number F29....
  
  , HMS Venus
  HMS Venus (R50)
  HMS Venus was a V-class destroyer of the Royal Navy that saw service during the Second World War. She was built by Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, of Govan, Scotland and launched on 23 February 1943...
  
   and HMS Virago
  HMS Virago (R75)
  HMS Virago was an V-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy that saw service during World War II. She was later converted into a Type 15 fast anti-submarine frigate, with the new pennant number F76....
  
  
• British 27th Destroyer Flotilla: 1945 British Pacific Fleet
  British Pacific Fleet
  The British Pacific Fleet was a British Commonwealth naval force which saw action against Japan during World War II. The fleet was composed of British Commonwealth naval vessels. The BPF formally came into being on 22 November 1944...
  
   HMS Kempenfelt
  HMS Kempenfelt (R03)
  HMS Kempenfelt was a W-class destroyer flotilla leader of the Royal Navy that served in the Second World War. She was the second destroyer of her name to have served in the war; the first Kempenfelt was transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy in October 1939 and renamed HMCS...
  
  , HMS Wager, HMS Wakeful, HMS Wessex
  HMS Wessex (R78)
  HMS Wessex was a W-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. She was to have been named HMS Zenith but was renamed in January 1943 before launching...
  
  , HMS Whelp
  HMS Whelp (R37)
  HMS Whelp was a W-class destroyer of the Royal Navy that was ordered and launched during the Second World War. After completing trials in home waters, she joined the 27th Destroyer Flotilla, which was sent to the Far East via the Mediterranean...
  
  , HMS Whirlwind
  HMS Whirlwind (R87)
  The second HMS Whirlwind was an W-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy that saw service during World War II and the Cold War.Whirlwind was built by Hawthorn Leslie and was launched on 30 August 1943...
  
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• British 28th Destroyer Flotilla
• British 29th Destroyer Flotilla

Escorts

• British 1st Escort Flotilla
• British 2nd Escort Flotilla
• British 3rd Escort Flotilla
• British 4th Escort Flotilla
• British 5th Escort Flotilla

Submarines

• British 1st Submarine Flotilla
• British 2nd Submarine Flotilla
• British 3rd Submarine Flotilla
• 4th Submarine Flotilla (United Kingdom) 1939: Medway, Westcott
  HMS Westcott (D47)
  HMS Wescott was a V & W class destroyer of the British Royal Navy. Named for Captain George Blagdon Westcott, killed at the Battle of the Nile, the destroyer served in the Second World War and sank two submarines in 1942 .Laid down in 1917 by Denny at Dumbarton, Scotland, Westcott was launched on...
  
  , Grampus
  HMS Grampus (N56)
  HMS Grampus was the lead ship of her class of mine-laying submarine of the Royal Navy. She was built at Chatham Dockyard and launched on 25 February 1936. She served in the Second World War off China before moving to the Mediterranean Sea. She was sunk with all hands by the Regia Marina on 16 June...
  
  , Rorqual
  HMS Rorqual (N74)
  HMS Rorqual was a British mine-laying submarine, one of the six ship class of Grampus-class of the Royal Navy. She was built by Vickers Armstrong, Barrow and launched 27 July 1936. She served in the Second World War in the Mediterranean and in the far east...
  
  , Odin
  HMS Odin (N84)
  HMS Odin was an O-class submarine of the Royal Navy. She was laid down by HM Dockyard at Chatham in Kent on 23 June 1927, launched on 5 May 1928 and commissioned on 21 December 1929....
  
  , Otus, Olympus
  HMS Olympus (N35)
  HMS Olympus ' was an Odin class submarine, a class originally designed for the Royal Australian Navy to cope with long distance patrolling in Pacific waters.Olympus was built to the same design for the Royal Navy....
  
  , Parthian
  HMS Parthian (N75)
  HMS Parthian was the lead boat of the six Royal Navy s, all launched in 1929. The submarine was sunk in 1943 during the Second World War. The submarine was nicknamed Peanut, from the identity letters PN painted on the fin....
  
  , Regent, Rover, Orpheus, Pandora
  HMS Pandora (N42)
  HMS Pandora was a British commissioned in 1930 and lost in 1942 during the Second World War. This class was the first to be fitted with Mark VIII torpedoes....
  
  , Perseus
  HMS Perseus (N36)
  HMS Perseus was a British built in 1929 and lost in 1941 during the Second World War. This class were the first to be fitted with Mark VIII torpedoes....
  
  , Phoenix
  HMS Phoenix (N96)
  HMS Phoenix was a of the Royal Navy, launched in 1929. She was the eighteenth warship of the Royal Navy to use the name Phoenix. She served on the China Station from her commissioning until the start of the Second World War...
  
  , Rainbow, Regulus
  HMS Regulus (N88)
  HMS Regulus was a Royal Navy Rainbow-class submarine built by Vickers-Armstrong at Barrow-in-Furness. Launched in 1930, the submarine was lost with its entire crew on 6 December 1940 during World War II whilst on patrol off Taranto, Italy. It was probably mined....
  
  , Proteus
• 5th Submarine Flotilla (United Kingdom)
• 7th Submarine Flotilla, part of Commander-in-Chief, South Atlantic. At Freetown, Sierra Leone, 3 September 1939, comprised HMS Clyde
  HMS Clyde
  Ten ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Clyde after the River Clyde that runs through the city of Glasgow, Scotland. For Her Majesty's Naval Base Clyde see HMNB Clyde....
  
   and HMS Severn
  HMS Severn
  Nine ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Severn after the River Severn: was a 50-gun fourth-rate launched in 1695, rebuilt in 1739, captured by the French in 1746, and recaptured by the Royal Navy in 1747 but not taken back into service. was a 50-gun fourth-rate launched in 1747 and sold in...
  
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