List of squadrons and flotillas of the Royal Navy

List of squadrons and flotillas of the Royal Navy
RN Ensign
Ships of the Royal Navy

A – B – C – D – E – F – G
H – I – J – K – L – M – N
O – P – Q – R – S – T – U
V – W – X – Y – Z
fleet aircraft carriers
escort aircraft carriers
seaplane carriers
amphibious assault shipping
battlecruisers
dreadnought battleships
pre-dreadnought battleships
ironclads
bomb vessels
corvettes and sloops
cruisers
destroyers
fireships
frigates
gun-brigs, gunboats & gunvessels
mine countermeasure vessels
monitors
patrol and attack craft
royal yachts
ships of the line
submarines
support ships
survey vessels
shore establishments
hospitals and hospital ships
air stations
aircraft wings
fleets and major commands
squadrons and flotillas
early English ships • early Scots ships

Contents

Port Squadrons

Type Squadrons

Aircraft Carriers

Battleships

Battlecruisers

Cruisers

Starting around the time that steam cruisers became popular in the 1870s, the Royal Navy tended to organise such ships into groups called Cruiser Squadrons. Squadrons were commanded by a Rear-Admiral whose title was given as Flag Officer Cruiser Squadron n, or CSn for short (e.g. the officer commanding the 3rd Cruiser Squadron would be CS3).

During peace time the grouping was primarily for administrative purposes, but during war the whole squadron tended to be operated as a unified fighting unit and such units would train in this formation during peace. In the main fighting fleets (Home Fleet and Mediterranean Fleet) members of a given squadron were normally of the same or similar classes. The use of Cruiser Squadrons died out as the number of such ships decreased following World War II.

  • British 1st Light Cruiser Squadron
  • British 2nd Light Cruiser Squadron
  • British 3rd Light Cruiser Squadron
  • British 4th Light Cruiser Squadron
  • British 5th Light Cruiser Squadron
  • British 6th Light Cruiser Squadron
  • British 7th Light Cruiser Squadron

Defence Boats

  • British 1st Seaward Defence Boat Squadron

Destroyers

  • British 1st Destroyer Squadron
  • British 2nd Destroyer Squadron
  • British 3rd Destroyer Squadron
  • British 4th Destroyer Squadron
  • British 5th Destroyer Squadron
  • British 6th Destroyer Squadron
  • British 7th Destroyer Squadron
  • British 8th Destroyer Squadron

Escorts

  • British 21st Escort Squadron
  • British 22nd Escort Squadron
  • British 23rd Escort Squadron
  • British 24th Escort Squadron
  • British 25th Escort Squadron
  • British 26th Escort Squadron
  • British 27th Escort Squadron
  • British 28th Escort Squadron
  • British 29th Escort Squadron
  • British 30th Escort Squadron

Fast Patrol Boats

  • British 1st Fast Patrol Boat Squadron
  • British 2nd Fast Patrol Boat Squadron
  • British Fast Patrol Boat Squadron

Fisheries

  • Fishery Protection Squadron

Frigates

  • British 1st Frigate Squadron
  • British 2nd Frigate Squadron
  • British 3rd Frigate Squadron
  • British 4th Frigate Squadron
  • British 5th Frigate Squadron
  • British 6th Frigate Squadron
  • British 7th Frigate Squadron
  • British 8th Frigate Squadron
  • British 9th Frigate Squadron
  • British 17th Frigate Squadron
  • British 20th Frigate Squadron

Minesweepers

Coastal Minesweepers

  • British 100th Minesweeper Squadron
  • British 101st Minesweeper Squadron
  • British 105th Minesweeper Squadron
  • British 106th Minesweeper Squadron
  • British 108th Minesweeper Squadron
  • British 120th Minesweeper Squadron

Fleet Minesweepers

  • British 1st Minesweeper Squadron
  • British 2nd Minesweeper Squadron
  • British 3rd Minesweeper Squadron
  • British 4th Minesweeper Squadron
  • British 5th Minesweeper Squadron
  • British 6th Minesweeper Squadron

Inshore Minesweepers

  • British 50th Minesweeper Squadron
  • British 51st Minesweeper Squadron
  • British 52nd Minesweeper Squadron
  • British 232nd Minesweeper Squadron

Mine Countermeasures

  • British 1st Minecountermeasures Squadron
  • British 2nd Minecountermeasures Squadron
  • British 3rd Minecountermeasures Squadron
  • British 5th Minecountermeasures Squadron
  • British 6th Minecountermeasures Squadron
  • British 7th Minecountermeasures Squadron
  • British 8th Minecountermeasures Squadron
  • British 9th Minecountermeasures Squadron
  • British 10th Minecountermeasures Squadron
  • British 11th Minecountermeasures Squadron

Submarines

  • 1st Submarine Squadron
  • 2nd Submarine Squadron
  • 3rd Submarine Squadron
  • 4th Submarine Squadron (United Kingdom) - with China Station 1939. With headquarters at Singapore, the then-named Fourth Submarine Flotilla comprised Rorqual, Grampus, Regent, Rover, Parthian, Olympus, Proteus, Regulus, Rainbow, Phoenix, Perseus, Pandora Orpheus, Odin, and Otus.[5] Trincomalee May 1944, Perth, Australia, after October 1944 supported by the depot ship HMS Adamant. Australia postwar (decision to host flotilla seems to have been made in 1949). The 4th Submarine Squadron, which included "T" class submarines, was disbanded on 10 January 1969 when the 1st Australian Submarine Squadron comprising HMAS Otway and HMAS Oxley was founded.[6] HMS Trump departed Sydney for the United Kingdom that day.
  • 5th Submarine Squadron
  • 6th Submarine Squadron
  • 7th Submarine Squadron
  • 10th Submarine Squadron (United Kingdom) - Resolution class submarines and Vanguard class SSBNs, based Faslane Naval Base, Scotland.

Training

  • British 2nd Training Squadron
  • British 3rd Training Squadron
  • British 4th Training Squadron
  • British Home Fleet Training Squadron

Flotillas

Destroyers

Escorts

  • British 1st Escort Flotilla
  • British 2nd Escort Flotilla
  • British 3rd Escort Flotilla
  • British 4th Escort Flotilla
  • British 5th Escort Flotilla

Minesweepers

  • British 4th Minesweeper Flotilla

Motor Torpedo Boats

  • British 10th MTB Flotilla
  • British 58th MTB Flotilla

Submarines

  • British 1st Submarine Flotilla
  • British 2nd Submarine Flotilla
  • British 3rd Submarine Flotilla
  • 4th Submarine Flotilla (United Kingdom) 1939: Medway, Westcott, Grampus, Rorqual, Odin, 5th Submarine Flotilla (United Kingdom)
  • 7th Submarine Flotilla, part of Commander-in-Chief, South Atlantic. At Freetown, Sierra Leone, 3 September 1939, comprised HMS Clyde and HMS Severn.[7]

Training

  • British 2nd Training Flotilla

References

  1. ^ "RN Bridge Card - 30 Jul 10". http://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/upload/pdf/20100730-Bridge-Card-30-JUL-10.pdf. Retrieved 2010-09-22. 
  2. ^ Graham Watson, Royal Navy: Fleet Air Arm, August 1945, v 1.0, April 7, 2002, Orbat.com
  3. ^ Orbat.com, Mediterranean Fleet, 3 September 1939
  4. ^ Home Fleet listing for 1933
  5. ^ Orbat.com/Niehorster, http://www.orbat.com/site/ww2/drleo/017_britain/39_navy/china-station_submarines.html
  6. ^ "Oberon Class - The First Australian Submarine Squadron". Submarine Institute of Australia. http://www.submarineinstitute.com/?doc=64. Retrieved 24 January 2011. 
  7. ^ http://www.orbat.com/site/ww2/drleo/017_britain/39_navy/south-atlantic.html

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