Second Sloop Flotilla (Royal Navy)
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The Second Sloop Flotilla was a formation of sloops of the Royal Navy.
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History
The Second was one of six new flotillas to first appear in the Navy List in July, 1918, joining the long-established First Sloop Flotilla and Tenth Sloop Flotilla.
July, 1918
The flotilla is established some time in June with a strength of nine sloops, operating in the Northern Division of the Coast of Ireland Station, based in Buncrana, where it would be operating alongside the Second Destroyer Flotilla and Platypus's Flotilla of submarines..[1]
| Attached to the Northern Division, Coast of Ireland | |||||
| Sloops | |||||
| Anchusa | Ard Patrick | Convolvulus | Eglantine | Gardenia | Marjoram |
| Saxifrage | Silene | Silvio | |||
August, 1918
Anchusa was sunk by U 54 on 18 July, reducing the flotilla to eight sloops. This line-up would persist until some time in X.[2]
| Attached to the Northern Division, Coast of Ireland | |||||
| Sloops | |||||
| Ard Patrick | Convolvulus | Eglantine | Gardenia | Marjoram | |
| Saxifrage | Silene | Silvio | |||
In Command
Dates of appointment given:
Footnotes
- ↑ Supplement to the Monthly Navy List. (July, 1918). p. 19.
- ↑ Supplement to the Monthly Navy List. (July, 1918). p. 19 and Supplements through X.
Bibliography
See Also
| British Sloop Flotillas |
| First Sloop Flotilla | Second Sloop Flotilla | Third Sloop Flotilla | Fourth Sloop Flotilla |
| Ninth Sloop Flotilla | Tenth Sloop Flotilla | Eleventh Sloop Flotilla | Twelfth Sloop Flotilla |
| Thirteenth Sloop Flotilla |
