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==Senior Officers== | ==Senior Officers== |
Revision as of 15:49, 14 December 2018
The Seventh Fleet Sweeping Flotilla was a formation of fleet minesweepers of the Royal Navy that operated in the North Sea late in the war.
History
February, 1919 – X
The formation is based in Humber for operations in the North Sea.[1]
Operating from Humber | |||
Sweeping Torpedo Gunboats | |||
Badminton | Burslem | Cattistock | Clonmel |
Cupar | Heythrop | Sherborne | Sligo |
Senior Officers
- Lieutenant in Command Peter A. C. Sturrock, December, 1918[2] – 4 February, 1919[3] (killed when vessel mined)
Footnotes
- ↑ Supplement to the Monthly Navy List. (March, 1919). p. 15 and Supplements through X.
- ↑ The Navy List. (March, 1919). p. 866.
- ↑ Hepper. British Warship Losses in the Ironclad Era: 1860-1919. p. 148.
Bibliography
- Dittmar, F.J.; Colledge, J.J. (1972). British Warships 1914–1919. London: Ian Allan.
See Also
British Minesweeping Formations |
Fleet Sweeping Flotillas (Great War) |
First | Second | Third | Sixth | Seventh | Eighth | Ninth | Tenth |
Eleventh | Twelfth | Thirteenth | Fifteenth | Sixteenth | Eighteenth | Nineteenth |
Twentieth | Twenty-first | Twenty-second | Twenty-third | Twenty-fourth |
Minesweeping Flotillas (World War II) |
First | Second | Third | Fourth | Fifth | Sixth |