Swarbacks Minn
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Swarbacks Minn was a minor Royal Navy base in the Great War located in the Shetland Islands northeast of Scapa Flow.
H.M.S. Gibraltar was seemingly the base ship there.
In Command
- Rear-Admiral William B. Fawckner, 14 May, 1915[1] – 25 October, 1917[2] (curiously, this is marked "Secret")
- Commander Arthur H. Oldham, c. November, 1917[3] – late 1918
See Also
Footnotes
- ↑ Fawckner Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/38/374. f. 447.
- ↑ Fawckner Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/38/374. f. 447.
- ↑ Supplement to the Monthly Navy List. (November, 1917). p. 9.
