China Station
From The Dreadnought Project
On 1 November, 1911, the destroyers allotted to the "China Flotilla" were 3 "Rivers", four 30-knotters, and two 27-knotters.[1]
Commanders-in-Chief
Dates of appointment given:
- Vice-Admiral George O. Willes, ?
- Vice-Admiral William M. Dowell, 26 September, 1878[2]
- Vice-Admiral Richard V. Hamilton, 1885
- Vice-Admiral Sir Nowell Salmon, 17 December, 1887[3]
- Vice-Admiral Sir Frederick W. Richards, 29 November, 1890[4]
- Vice-Admiral The Hon. Sir Edmund R. Fremantle, 16 February, 1892[5]
- Admiral Sir Alexander Buller, 28 May, 1895[6]
- Admiral Sir Edward H. Seymour, 19 February, 1898[7]
- Admiral Sir Cyprian A. G. Bridge, June, 1901
- Admiral Sir Gerard H. U. Noel, 1904
- Admiral Sir Arthur W. Moore, 6 December, 1906
- Vice-Admiral The Hon. Sir Hedworth Lambton, 1 January, 1908[8]
- Admiral Sir Alfred L. Winsloe, 25 January, 1910[9]
- Vice-Admiral Sir T. H. Martyn Jerram, 25 January, 1913[10][11] – 28 July, 1915[12]
- Vice-Admiral Sir William L. Grant, 28 July, 1915[13] – 25 October, 1917[14]
- Vice-Admiral Sir Frederick C. T. Tudor, 20 July, 1917[15] – July, 1919[16]
- Admiral Sir Alexander L. Duff, 24 July, 1919[17] – 7 November, 1922[18]
- Admiral Sir Arthur C. Leveson, 10 September, 1922[19]
- Vice-Admiral Sir Allan F. Everett, 10 September, 1924[20] – 12 May, 1925[21]
- Vice-Admiral Sir Edwyn S. Alexander-Sinclair, 22 April, 1925[22] – 8 November, 1926[23]
- Vice-Admiral Sir Reginald Y. Tyrwhitt, Bart., 8 November, 1926[24] – 13 November, 1928[25]
- Vice-Admiral Sir Arthur K. Waistell, 28 November, 1928[26]
- Admiral Sir W. A. Howard Kelly, 13 December, 1930[27] – 11 March, 1933[28]
- Admiral Sir Frederic C. Dreyer, 9 January, 1933 – 11 January, 1936
- Admiral Sir Charles J. C. Little, 7 November, 1935
Seconds-in-Command
Dates of appointment given:
- Rear-Admiral Charles L. Oxley, 7 May, 1896[29]
- Rear-Admiral Charles C. P. FitzGerald, 27 October, 1897[30] – 23 December, 1899[31]
- Rear-Admiral Sir James A. T. Bruce, 18 September, 1899[32]
- Rear-Admiral Harry T. Grenfell, 1901
- Rear-Admiral The Hon. Assheton G. Curzon-Howe, 13 June, 1903[33] – 2 August, 1905[34]
Dates of appointment given:
- Captain Maurice S. FitzMaurice, 14 February, 1914[35] – 5 August, 1914[36]
- Captain Alfred A. Ellison, 1 April, 1919[37]
- Rear-Admiral George H. Borrett, May, 1920[38]
- Rear-Admiral Crawford Maclachlan, 17 October, 1921[39]
- Rear-Admiral David M. Anderson, 8 August, 1923[40] – 24 October, 1925[41]
- Rear-Admiral John E. Cameron, 1925
- Rear-Admiral Hugh J. Tweedie, 1927
Footnotes
- ↑ March. British Destroyers. p. 160.
- ↑ The Navy List. (March, 1880). p. 188.
- ↑ Clowes. The Royal Navy. Vol. VII. p. 88.
- ↑ Clowes. The Royal Navy. Vol. VII. p. 88.
- ↑ Clowes. The Royal Navy. Vol. VII. p. 88.
- ↑ Clowes. The Royal Navy. Vol. VII. p. 88.
- ↑ Clowes. The Royal Navy. Vol. VII. p. 88.
- ↑ Squadrons and Senior Naval Officers in Existence on 11th November, 1918. Unnumbered page.
- ↑ Squadrons and Senior Naval Officers in Existence on 11th November, 1918. Unnumbered page.
- ↑ Supplement to the Monthly Navy List. (December, 1914). p. 7.
- ↑ Jerram Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/38. f. 692.
- ↑ Jerram Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/38. f. 692.
- ↑ Squadrons and Senior Naval Officers in Existence on 11th November, 1918. p. 33.
- ↑ Grant Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/20. f. 254/512.
- ↑ Squadrons and Senior Naval Officers in Existence on 11th November, 1918. p. 33.
- ↑ Supplement to the Monthly Navy List. (July, 1919). p. 7.
- ↑ Duff Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 204.
- ↑ Duff Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 204.
- ↑ "Naval and Military" (Official Appointments and Notices). The Times. Saturday, 1 April, 1922. Issue 42995, col B, p. 10.
- ↑ Everett Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. p. 23.
- ↑ Everett Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 23.
- ↑ Alexander-Sinclair Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 194.
- ↑ Alexander-Sinclair Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 194.
- ↑ Tyrwhitt Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/89. f. 41.
- ↑ Tyrwhitt Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/89. f. 41.
- ↑ Waistell Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 244.
- ↑ Kelly Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 230.
- ↑ Kelly Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 230.
- ↑ Oxley Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/36. f. 992.
- ↑ FitzGerald Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/36. f. 453.
- ↑ FitzGerald Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/14. f. 1060.
- ↑ Bruce Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/36. f. 152.
- ↑ Curzon-Howe Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/38. f. 275.
- ↑ Curzon-Howe Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/38. f. 275.
- ↑ FitzMaurice Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 148.
- ↑ FitzMaurice Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 148.
- ↑ The Navy List. (October, 1919). p. 698.
- ↑ Borrett Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 505.
- ↑ "Flag Commands" (Official Appointments and Notices). The Times. Friday, 10 June, 1921. Issue 42743, col G, p. 10.
- ↑ Anderson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 415.
- ↑ Anderson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 415.
