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In 1939 on the outbreak of the Second World War, the Navy was searching for a site for a training depot for officers of the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve (RNVR). The Sussex Division of the RNVR was based in Hove and its Motor Launch , ML 1649, was called HMS King Alfred [ 1 ] and near to the divisional base was a new leisure centre that was just ...
HMS Europa was a Royal Navy Shore establishment active between 1939 and 1946 during World War II as the central depot for the Royal Naval Patrol Service (RNPS). [1] It was established after the commandeering of Sparrows Nest Gardens, a private residence in Lowestoft in Suffolk.
Commissioned in October 1940, HMS St Christopher was in service for a total of four years, until being decommissioned in December 1944. The base was first commanded by Commander A.E.P. Welman DSO DSC RN, and existed to train the crews of a variety of different inshore patrol craft.
Housed within a refurbished Romney hut and oil fuel pump house at the former Lyness royal naval base HMS Proserpine, [1] the museum charts the history of Orkney's involvement in World War I and World War II. The museum is named after the body of water to the east of Hoy, Scapa Flow, which was the Royal Navy's chief naval base during both world ...
[1] [2] In 1915 The Auxiliary Patrol a component force under the (ADMP) based at Grimsby was designated Auxiliary Patrol Area IX, [3] during this period HMNB Immingham was also a submarine base for British D class submarine. During World War II the Humber Force received shore support from this station from 1939 to 1940. In 1941 various mine ...
HMS Daedalus II was a British Royal Navy air station and training establishment between 1940 and 1946. The name applied to four different locations with the United Kingdom at various times during the Second World War. The establishment was formed to free up space at RNAS Lee-on-Solent (HMS Daedalus).
This project, involving 160,000 square metres of land reclamation, a 36,000 square metre floating basin to repair and refit vessels afloat, and also a 183-metre graving dock, [4] was completed by 1908. [3] At the end of World War II, the Royal Navy re-established their naval base at Wellington Barracks, vacated by the British Army. [6]
In 1996, following the decommissioning and privatisation of the Royal Naval Dockyard Rosyth, MoD Caledonia was opened on the site of the former dockyard. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] Following the Options for Change review and the collapse of the Soviet Union , the reserve unit HMS Scotia was moved from Pitreavie Castle to HMS Caledonia , where it has ...