First Battle Cruiser Squadron (Royal Navy)
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Vice-Admirals and Rear-Admirals Commanding
Dates of appointment given:
- Vice-Admiral (Acting) Sir David R. Beatty, 1 March, 1913.[1]
- Rear-Admiral Osmond de B. Brock, 8 February, 1915.[2]
- Rear-Admiral Richard F. Phillimore, 1 December, 1916.[3]
- Rear-Admiral Sir Henry F. Oliver, 14 March, 1918.[4]
Rear-Admiral in the First Battle Cruiser Squadron
- Rear-Admiral Sir A. Gordon H. W. Moore, 4 November, 1914.[5]
Composition
17 November, 1917 at Second Battle of Heligoland Bight[6]
- Screened by:
- Champion (Light cruiser)
- Verdun
- Telemachus
- H.M.S. Oriana (1916) ''Oriana''
- Nepean
- Obdurate
- Tristam
- Petard
- Tower
Footnotes
- ↑ Supplement to the Monthly Navy List (September, 1914). p. 4.
- ↑ "Squadrons and Senior Naval Officers in Existence on 11th November, 1918, and Which Have Now Ceased to Exist." The National Archives. ADM 6/461. ["Squadrons.'] p. 9.
- ↑ Ibid.
- ↑ Ibid.
- ↑ Moore Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. p. 64.
- ↑ Newbolt. Naval Operations. V. pp. 168-169.
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