Third Fleet (Royal Navy)

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The Third Fleet of the new Home Fleets was formed from the Fourth Division of the Home Fleet in 1912.[1]

In the event of war with Germany the Third Fleet battleships available for mobilisation were to form a squadron under the command of the Vice-Admiral Commanding the Royal Naval War College, reporting to the Vice-Admiral Commanding the Channel Fleet.[2]

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ "Naval and Military Intelligence" (Official Appointments and Notices). The Times. Tuesday, 14 October, 1913. Issue 40342, col F, p. 6.
  2. ↑ M. 0053. "War Orders (War with Germany)." Dated July, 1914. The National Archives. ADM 137/818. f. 334.

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