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The Third Fleet was a reserve formation of the Royal Navy that briefly existed before the First World War.
Contents 1 History 2 Vice-Admiral Commanding 3 Components 4 Footnotes 5 Bibliography 6 External links
History [ edit] Formed on 1 May 1912 from the 4th Division of the Home Fleet, its elderly ships were ordinarily only manned by a small maintenance crew during peacetime, but were intended to be manned by naval reservists when mobilised.[1] It was conducting a test mobilisation in July 1914 as tensions increased between Great Britain and Imperial Germany[2] and was only partially demobilised before full mobilisation was ordered on 2 August. At this time it consisted of the 7th and 8th Battle Squadrons of pre-dreadnought battleships and five squadrons of cruisers.[3]
Vice-Admiral Commanding [ edit] Rank Flag Name Term Vice-Admiral Commanding Third Fleet [4] 1 Vice-Admiral Sir Frederick T. Hamilton December 1911-December 1913 2 Vice-Admiral Sir Cecil Burney December 1913-August 1914.
Components [ edit] Included [5] Unit Notes 1 7th Battle Squadron (8 pre-dreadnoughts) [6] 2 8th Battle Squadron (6 pre-dreadnoughts) [7] 3 7th Cruiser Squadron (5 armoured cruisers) [8] 3 8th Cruiser Squadron (5 armoured/protected cruisers) [9] 4 9th Cruiser Squadron 8 armoured/protected cruisers) [10] 5 10th Cruiser Squadron (7 protected cruisers)-from Training Squadron at Queenstown [11] 6 11th Cruiser Squadron 5 protected cruisers) [12] 7 12th Cruiser Squadron 4 protected cruisers) [13] 8 [14] 9 [15] 10 [16]
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^ Wragg, p. 24 ^ Marder, p. 432 ^ Corbett, pp. 13, 29 ^ Government, H.M. (October 1913). "Flag Officers - Vice Admirals". The Navy List . H.M. Stationery Office. p. 87. ^ Watson, Dr Graham. "Royal Navy Organisation and Ship Deployment, Inter-War Years 1914-1918". naval-history.net . Gordon Smith, 27 October, 2015. Retrieved 2 August 2017 . ^ Watson. 2015 ^ Watson. 2015 ^ Watson. 2015 ^ Watson. 2015 ^ Watson. 2015 ^ Watson. 2015 ^ Watson. 2015 ^ Watson. 2015 ^ Watson. 2015 ^ Watson. 2015 ^ Watson. 2015
Bibliography [ edit] Corbett, Julian. Naval Operations to the Battle of the Falklands . History of the Great War: Based on Official Documents. I (2nd, reprint of the 1938 ed.). London and Nashville, Tennessee: Imperial War Museum and Battery Press. ISBN 0-89839-256-X. Marder, Arthur J. (2013) [1961]. From Dreadnought to Scapa Flow: The Royal Navy in the Fisher Era . I: The Road to War 1904–1914. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 9781-59114-259-1. Wragg, David (2006). Royal Navy Handbook 1914–1918 . Stroud, UK: Sutton Publishing. ISBN 0-7509-4203-7. External links [ edit] The Dreadnought Project: Third Fleet
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