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Biggs, Flag Officer Gibraltar, hauled down his flag. Thereafter the new command took on a more tri-service character. British Armed Forces in Gibraltar had...30 KB (2,609 words) - 13:58, 9 August 2024
1946–92) Flag Officer, Gibraltar and North Atlantic (1939–43). Also reported as FOC North Atlantic; (northern Portugal – northern Morocco – Atlantic). Admiral...37 KB (3,876 words) - 23:45, 7 March 2024- [later: Flag Officer Commanding North Atlantic] & Admiral Superintendent HM Dockyard, Gibraltar. The renamed Flag Officer Commanding North Atlantic had responsibility...7 KB (644 words) - 23:23, 14 April 2024
Mediterranean Fleet (category Military units and formations of the Royal Navy in World War II)to February 1943 the officer then reports to C-in-C, Levant until December 1943 The Flag Officer, Gibraltar and North Atlantic was elevated to the rank...74 KB (3,874 words) - 19:28, 18 August 2024
Force H (redirect from Flag Officer Commanding Force H)already a flag officer at the base, Flag Officer Commanding, North Atlantic. The commanding officer of Force H did not report to this Flag Officer but directly...14 KB (1,648 words) - 08:22, 13 July 2024- FOSNI, Flag Officer Plymouth, Flag Officer Gibraltar, Flag Officer Malta, Senior Naval Officer West Indies, Commander, ANZUK Naval Forces, and Commodore-in-Charge...42 KB (2,914 words) - 10:19, 27 April 2024
continent of Europe, and as a bastion of British sea power. During World War II, Gibraltar served a vital role in both the Atlantic Theatre and the Mediterranean...54 KB (5,991 words) - 05:55, 14 August 2024
Bay of Gibraltar, near the exit of the Mediterranean Sea into the Atlantic Ocean (Strait of Gibraltar). It has an area of 6.8 km2 (2.6 sq mi) and is bordered...148 KB (13,536 words) - 21:28, 16 August 2024- Standing Royal Navy deployments (redirect from Atlantic Patrol Task (North))in 2011 and 18 days in 2012. Training in UK Home Waters is essential for preparing both crews and ships before overseas deployment. Flag Officer Sea Training...33 KB (3,389 words) - 13:31, 25 March 2024
- Commander-in-Chief, Levant (redirect from Flag Officer, North Africa)Command or Levant Station. In December 1943 the title was changed to Flag Officer, Levant and East Mediterranean. In January 1944 the two separate commands were...14 KB (931 words) - 12:19, 18 December 2023
CAM ship (category North Atlantic convoys of World War II)catapults. Each team consisted of one pilot for Atlantic runs (or two pilots for voyages to Russia, Gibraltar, or the Mediterranean Sea), with one fitter...14 KB (1,560 words) - 01:46, 15 April 2024
– 25 November 1843) was a Royal Navy officer. As a junior officer he took part in the Great Siege of Gibraltar during the American Revolutionary War...13 KB (1,097 words) - 13:17, 12 August 2024
Panama Bay on 6 December. Two days later, Flag Officer John B. Montgomery hoisted his flag above Lancaster, and she served as flagship of the Pacific Squadron...13 KB (1,541 words) - 15:56, 6 July 2023
Battle of Lagos (section Notes, citations and sources)the Strait of Gibraltar, but was sighted by a British ship shortly after it entered the Atlantic. The British fleet was in nearby Gibraltar, undergoing...35 KB (4,280 words) - 13:28, 14 July 2024
relook at fleet formations and the Atlantic Fleet became the 3rd Battle Squadron. The Atlantic Fleet was based at Gibraltar to reinforce either the Channel...19 KB (776 words) - 09:17, 13 July 2024
recognised as the foremost threat to the North Atlantic convoys. With the exception of men like Dönitz, most naval officers on both sides regarded surface warships...141 KB (18,500 words) - 13:27, 9 August 2024
CSS Sumter (redirect from SS Gibraltar (1859))Caribbean and in the Atlantic Ocean against Union merchant shipping between July and December 1861, taking eighteen prizes, but was trapped in Gibraltar by Union...11 KB (1,127 words) - 22:00, 12 November 2023
Wickes-class destroyer, as a watch and division officer from December 1918 to July 1920. Dyer showed the flag in port visits to Gibraltar, La Spezia, Venice, Trieste...96 KB (10,995 words) - 03:37, 30 April 2024
Union Jack (redirect from Union flag)Union Flag is the de facto national flag of the United Kingdom. The Union Flag was also used as the official flag of several British colonies and dominions...134 KB (14,487 words) - 12:36, 17 August 2024
William P. Potter (section Flag assignments)Admiral Robert H. Wyman, commander of North Atlantic Station. Admiral Wyman later switched his flag to USS Tennessee and Potter served aboard her until September...16 KB (1,547 words) - 02:16, 11 May 2024
- crazy, and, meeting with heavy weather in the North Atlantic, was with difficulty kept afloat till she reached the Tagus, where she was run ashore and broken
- sentry box in Gibraltar a poem which said: <God and the soldier, all men adore In time of danger and not before When the danger is passed and all things
- Portuguese Seaborne Empire 1415-1825. Hutchinson. Davies, K.G. (1974). The North Atlantic World in the Seventeenth Century. University of Minnesota. Schama, Simon