Downs Boarding Flotilla
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The Downs Boarding Flotilla was an ad-hoc Royal Navy formation of vessels which provided inspection services in the Channel area as part of the Dover Patrol.
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History
The formation was seemingly created on the outbreak of the war.
Composition
September, 1914
The formation is listed in the Navy List as the "Boarding Flotilla".
Eight vessels:
- the torpedo gunboat Harrier
- the torpedo gunboat Niger
- the tug Template:UK-Carcass
- Template:UK-ChesterIII
- Template:UK-Chichester
- Template:UK-Ceylon
- Template:UK-Chubb
- Template:UK-Cerberus
August, 1916
Five armed boarding vessels:
- Template:UK-CityOfBelfast
- Template:UK-DutchessOfDevonshire
- Template:UK-Louvain
- Template:UK-PeelCastle
- the yacht Template:UK-Simoun
Eleven tugs:
- Template:UK-Carcass
- Template:UK-Ceylon
- Template:UK-Charm
- Template:UK-ChesterIII
- Template:UK-Chichester
- Template:UK-Chubb
- Template:UK-Codfish
- Template:UK-CrudenBay
- Dragon
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- Template:UK-Fore
In Command
- Commander Winstanley R. C. Moorsom, 14 November, 1914[1] – 15 January, 1915[2]
Footnotes
- ↑ Moorsom Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/488. f. 503.
- ↑ Moorsom Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/488. f. 503.
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