THE ROYAL NAVY June 1906 Channel Fleet |
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Flag Officers Admiral Sir Arthur K. WIlson, GCVO, KCB, VC - Commander-in-Chief Vice Admiral The Hon. Sir Assheton G. Curzon-Howe, KCB, CVO, CMG - 2nd-in-Commande Rear Admiral Robert L. Groome, CVO - Battleship Division Rear Admiral Alfred L. Winsloe, CVO, CMG - Torpedo & Submarine Flotillas in Commission & Reserve Rear Admiral George Neville, CVO - 1st Cruiser Squadron |
Battleships ALBEMARLE (flag of Rear Admiral Groome) - Captain Edward S. Fitzherbert CAESAR (flag of Vice Admiral Curzon-Howe) - Captain Sydney R. Fremantle CANOPUS - Captain Douglas A. Gamble, MVO CORNWALLIS - Captain Charles H. Coke DUNCAN - Captain John Casement EXMOUTH (flag of Admiral Wilson) - Captain Edward E. Bradford, CVO (also fleet Chief of Staff) GLORY - Captain Ernest C. T. Troubridge, MVO GOLIATH - Captain Henry C. Kingsford ILLUSTRIOUS - Captain Frederick A. Warden JUPITER - Captain Herbert A. Warren, MVO MONTAGU - Captain Thomas B. S. Adair OCEAN - Captain Charles Dundas of Dundas PRINCE GEORGE - Captain Robert H. S. Stokes RUSSELL - Captain Robert S. Lowery SWIFTSURE - Captain Arthur A. C. Galloway TRIUMPH - Captain Frederick E. E. Brock VENGEANCE - Captain Harry C. Reynolds ATTACHED CRUISERS DIDO - Captain Stuart Nicholson JUNO - Captain John de M. Hutchinson, CMG TOPAZE - Commander Vivian H. G. Bernard ATTACHED SHIPS PATHFINDER (scout) - Commander Spencer A. Hickley PATROL (scout) - Commander Wilfred Henderson SAPPHIRE (flag of Rear Admiral Winsloe) - Captain Cecil F. Lambert SENTINEL - Commander Edward H. F. Heaton-Ellis TYNE (Depot Ship for Destroyers) - Commander Maurice H. H. Nelson 1st CRUISER SQUADRON ANTRIM - Captain Edward F. Inglefield ARGYLL - Captain Charles E. Anson, MVO DEVONSHIRE - Captain Arthur T. Stuart, MVO GOOD HOPE (flag of Rear Admiral Neville) - Captain George P. W. Hope HAMPSHIRE - Captain Sir Robert Arbuthnot, Bt., MVO ROXBURGH - Captain Somerset A. G. Calthorpe |
1st DESTROYER FLOTILLA BOYNE - Lt. Ernest Parker CRANE - Lt. Henry F. D. Jelf DERWENT - Lt. George P. England DOON - Lt. Edward O. Gladstone FAWN - Lt. Herbert M. Denny FLIRT - Lt. Bertram O. F. Phibbs GARRY - Commander Harry L. D'E. Skipworth KANGAROO - Lt. William S. F. Forbes MYRMIDION - Lt. Lionel J. G. Anderson PETEREL - Lt. Arthur Bromley RIBBLE - Lt. Hubert S. Cardale WAVENEY - Commander Francis G. St. John |
2nd DESTROYER FLOTILLA EARNEST - Lt. Percy W. Pontifex EXE - Lt. Valentine E. B. Phillimore, DSO LIVELY - Lt. John R. Dodington NESS - Lt. Stanley W. Ellis NITH - Commander Wilmot S. Nicholson ORWELL - Lt. Reginald C. L. Owen SEAL - Lt. Basil G. Washington SPRIGHTLY - Lt. Frederick H. Hallowes SWALE - Lt. Richard F. White THRASHER - Lt. Cecil H. Pilcher URE - Commander James R. P. Hawksley WEAR - Lt. Albert M. H. Phillips |
3rd DESTROYER FLOTILLA ARAB - Lt. Geoffrey Mackworth ARUN - Lt. Spencer R. S. Richards CHEERFUL - Lt. Arthur G. Miller EXPRESS - Lt. George H. Brown FOYLE - Lt. Cyril Asser GREYHOUND - Lt. Dennis G. Thyme ITCHEN - Lt. John A. Gregory LIFFEY - Commander James U. Farrie MOY - Lt. David C. H. Dalrymple OUSE - Commander John G. deO. Coke RACEHORSE - Lt. Frank F. Rose ROEBUCK - Lt. Walter L. Allen |
The armoured cruiser HMS Devonshire, part of the Channel Fleet in 1906, photographed prior to World War I. Photo from the US Naval Histroical Center's On-Line Library. As far as I know, it is in the public domain |