Thirteenth Fleet Sweeping Flotilla (Royal Navy)

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The Thirteenth Fleet Sweeping Flotilla was a formation of gunboats acting as fleet minesweepers of the Royal Navy. It operated out of the Clyde late in the war.

History

February, 1919 – X

The formation is based in Clyde alongside the Twenty-first Fleet Sweeping Flotilla, and is unofficially dubbed the "Gunboat Fleet Sweeping Flotilla". Speedwell bears the Senior Officer.[1]

Operating from Clyde
Sweeping Torpedo Gunboats
Spanker Speedwell(S.N.O.) Circe Gossamer Leda

Senior Officers

Footnotes

  1. Supplement to the Monthly Navy List. (March, 1919). p. 16 and Supplements through X.
  2. Warden Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 240/54/106. f. 106.
  3. Warden Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 240/54/106. f. 106.

Bibliography

  • Dittmar, F.J.; Colledge, J.J. (1972). British Warships 1914–1919. London: Ian Allan.

See Also



British Minesweeping Formations
Fleet Sweeping Flotillas (Great War)
First | Second | Third | Sixth | Seventh | Eighth | Ninth | Tenth
Eleventh | Twelfth | Thirteenth | Fifteenth | Sixteenth | Eighteenth | Nineteenth
Twentieth | Twenty-first | Twenty-second | Twenty-third | Twenty-fourth
Minesweeping Flotillas (World War II)
First | Second | Third | Fourth | Fifth | Sixth