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==History==
The Channel Squadron was established as such in 1858, and was occasionally known as the [[Particular Service Squadron]],{{ClowesVII|p. 89}} and the Channel Fleet and one reference has been seen to "Senior Officer in Command of Her Majesty's vessels on the coast of Ireland". For the most part its commander was known as the '''Senior Officer in Command''', but occasional official references are seen to Commander-in-Chief and Vice-Admiral Commanding: in the ''Navy List'' for December, 1886, for example, [[William Nathan Wrighte Hewett|Sir William N. W. Hewett]] is listed as both "Senior Officer in command of Channel Squadron" and "Vice-Admiral Commanding".<ref>''The Navy List, Corrected to the 20th December, 1886''. pp. 70, 187.</ref> Vice-Admiral [[Charles William de la Poer Beresford, First Baron Beresford|The Right Hon. Lord Charles Beresford]] was appointed Vice-Admiral Commanding, Channel Squadron, on 17 April, 1903.{{NLJun03|p. 216}} On 6 May he was informed by the Admiralty "that for the future the Channel Squadron shall be known as the [[Channel Fleet (Royal Navy)|Channel Fleet]]."<ref>Letter No 743 of 6 May, 1903. {{TNA|ADM 144/16.}} f. 60.</ref>

==Composition==
===1891===
{{ParkesBritishBattleships|p. 693}}

*[[H.M.S. Anson (1886)|''Anson'']]
*[[H.M.S. Camperdown (1885)|''Camperdown'']]
*[[H.M.S. Howe (1885)|''Howe'']]
*[[H.M.S. Rodney (1884)|''Rodney'']]

===1896===
{{ParkesBritishBattleships|p. 693}}

*[[H.M.S. Magnificent (1894)|''Magnificent'']]
*[[H.M.S. Majestic (1895)|''Majestic'']]
*[[H.M.S. Prince George (1895)|''Prince George'']]
*[[H.M.S. Empress of India (1891)|''Empress of India'']]
*[[H.M.S. Repulse (1892)|''Repulse'']]
*[[H.M.S. Resolution (1892)|''Resolution'']]
*[[H.M.S. Royal Sovereign (1891)|''Royal Sovereign'']]

===February, 1900===
{{NLFeb00|p. 218}}

* {{UK-Arrogant}}
* {{UK-Diadem}}
* {{UK-1Furious}}
* {{UK-Hannibal}}
* {{UK-Jupiter}}
* {{UK-Magnificent}}
* {{UK-Majestic}}
* {{UK-Mars}} (temporarily detached to Cape of Good Hope Station)
* {{UK-Niobe}}
* {{UK-Pactolus}}
* {{UK-PrinceGeorge}}
* {{UK-Pelorus}} (temporarily detached to Cape of Good Hope Station)
* {{UK-1Repulse}}
* {{UK-1Resolution}}

===January, 1901===
The formation has remained unaltered, but ''Mars'' and ''Pelorus'' are no longer on temporary detachment.{{NLJan01|p. 218}}

* {{UK-Arrogant}}
* {{UK-Diadem}}
* {{UK-1Furious}}
* {{UK-Hannibal}}
* {{UK-Jupiter}}
* {{UK-Magnificent}}
* {{UK-Majestic}}
* {{UK-Mars}} 
* {{UK-Niobe}}
* {{UK-Pactolus}}
* {{UK-PrinceGeorge}}
* {{UK-Pelorus}}
* {{UK-1Repulse}}
* {{UK-1Resolution}}

==Senior Officers in Command==
Dates of appointment given:
<div name=fredbot:office0 otitle="Senior Officer in Command, Channel Squadron" nat="UK">
{{Tenure|rank={{ViceRN}}|name=Charles Howe Fremantle|nick=Sir Charles H. Fremantle|appt=28 July, 1858<ref>Fremantle service record. {{TNA|ADM 196/36/1196.}}</ref>|end=10 October, 1860<ref>Fremantle service record. {{TNA|ADM 196/36/1196.}}</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank={{RearRN}}|name=Robert Fanshawe Stopford|nick=Robert F. Stopford|appt=2 October, 1860<ref>Stopford service record. {{TNA|ADM 196/37/1065.}}</ref>|end=24 January, 1861<ref>Stopford service record. {{TNA|ADM 196/37/1065.}}</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank=Rear-Admiral|name=Robert Smart|nick=Robert Smart|appt=29 January, 1861<ref>Smart service record. {{TNA|ADM 196/36/963.}}</ref>|end=24 April, 1863{{INF}}}}
{{Tenure|rank=Vice-Admiral|name=Sydney Colpoys Dacres|nick=Sir Sydney C. Dacres|appt=24 April, 1863<ref>Dacres service record. {{TNA|ADM 196/36/821.}}</ref>|end=3 December, 1865<ref>Dacres service record. {{TNA|ADM 196/36/821.}}</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank=Rear-Admiral|name=Hastings Reginald Yelverton|nick=Hastings R. Yelverton|appt=6 July, 1866<ref>Yelverton service record. {{TNA|ADM 196/37/1521.}}</ref>|end=30 April, 1867<ref>Yelverton service record. {{TNA|ADM 196/37/1521.}}</ref>|note=as Commander-in-Chief, Channel Squadron<ref>Yelverton service record. {{TNA|ADM 196/37/1521.}}</ref>|as=Commander-in-Chief, Channel Squadron}}
{{Tenure|rank=Rear-Admiral|name=Frederick Warden|nick=Frederick Warden|appt=5 April, 1867<ref>Warden service record. {{TNA|ADM 196/37/1321.}}</ref>|end=11 November, 1869<ref>Warden service record. {{TNA|ADM 196/37/1321.}}</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank=Vice-Admiral|name=Thomas Matthew Charles Symonds|nick=Sir Thomas M. C. Symonds|appt=10 December, 1868<ref>Symonds service record. {{TNA|ADM 196/1131.}}</ref>|end=22 June, 1870<ref>Symonds service record. {{TNA|ADM 196/1131.}}</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank=Vice-Admiral|name=Hastings Reginald Yelverton|nick=Sir Hastings R. Yelverton|appt=13 July, 1870<ref>Yelverton service record. {{TNA|ADM 196/37/1521.}}</ref>|end=25 October, 1870<ref>Yelverton service record. {{TNA|ADM 196/37/1521.}}</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank=Vice-Admiral|name=George Greville Wellesley|nick=George G. Wellesley|appt=25 October, 1870<ref>Wellesley service record. {{TNA|ADM 196/37/1367.}}</ref>|end=25 August, 1871<ref>Wellesley service record. {{TNA|ADM 196/37/1367.}}</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank=Vice-Admiral|name=Geoffrey Thomas Phipps Hornby|nick=Geoffrey T. Phipps Hornby|appt=31 August, 1871<ref>Phipps Hornby service record. {{TNA|ADM 196/36/1838.}}</ref>|end=30 September, 1874<ref>Phipps Hornby service record. {{TNA|ADM 196/36/1838.}}</ref>|precBy=[[George Greville Wellesley|George G. Wellesley]]}}
{{Tenure|rank=Vice-Admiral|name=Frederick Beauchamp Paget Seymour, First Baron Alcester|nick=Sir Frederick B. P. Seymour|appt=1 October, 1874<ref>Alcester service record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/37/883.}}</ref>|end=9 November, 1877<ref>Alcester service record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/37/883.}}</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank=Vice-Admiral|name=John Hay|nick=The Rt. Hon. Lord John Hay|appt=10 November, 1877<ref>Hay service record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/36/1616.}}</ref>|end=15 November, 1879<ref>Hay service record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/36/1616.}}</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank=Vice-Admiral|name=Arthur William Acland Hood, First Baron Hood|nick=Arthur W. A. Hood|appt=9 December, 1879<ref>Hood service record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/36/1791.}}</ref>|end=10 December, 1881<ref>Hood service record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/36/1791.}}</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank=Rear-Admiral|name=Henry Carr Glyn|nick=The Hon. Henry C. Glynn|appt=1 December, 1881{{NLJan82|p. 188}}<ref>Glyn service record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/36/1415.}}</ref>|end=26 April, 1882<ref>Glyn service record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/36/1415.}}</ref>|note=temporary}}
{{Tenure|rank=Vice-Admiral|name=William Montagu Dowell|nick=Sir William M. Dowell|appt=10 April, 1882<ref>Dowell service record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/36/1044.}}</ref>|end=1 December, 1883<ref>Dowell service record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/36/1044.}}</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank=Vice-Admiral|name=Alfred Ernest Albert, Third Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha|nick=H.R.H. The Duke of Edinburgh|appt=3 December, 1883<ref>Saxe-Coburg and Gotha service record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/25.}}</ref>|end=3 December, 1884<ref>Saxe-Coburg and Gotha service record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/36/25.}}</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank={{AdmRN}}|name=Algernon Frederick Rous de Horsey|nick=Algernon F. R. de Horsey|appt=4 December, 1884<ref>De Horsey service record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/36/976.}}</ref>|end=7 May, 1885<ref>De Horsey service record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/36/976.}}</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank=Rear-Admiral|name=William Henry Whyte|nick=William H. Whyte|appt=7 May, 1885<ref>Whyte service record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/37/1506.}}</ref>|end=23 July, 1885<ref>Whyte service record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/37/1506.}}</ref>|note=temporary}}
{{Tenure|rank=Vice-Admiral|name=Charles Fellowes|nick=Charles Fellowes|appt=1 July, 1885<ref>Fellowes service record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/36/1239.}}</ref>|end=8 March, 1886<ref>Fellowes service record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/36/1239.}}</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank=Vice-Admiral|name=William Nathan Wrighte Hewett|nick=William N. W. Hewett|appt=18 March, 1886<ref>Hewett service record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/36/1761.}}</ref>|end=17 April, 1888<ref>Hewett service record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/36/1761.}}</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank=Vice-Admiral|name=John Kennedy Erskine Baird|nick=John K. E. Baird|appt=17 April, 1888<ref>Baird service record. {{TNA|ADM 196/36/189.}}</ref>|end=3 May, 1890<ref>Baird service record. {{TNA|ADM 196/36/189.}}</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank=Vice-Admiral|name=Michael Culme-Seymour, Third Baronet|nick=Sir Michael Culme-Seymour, Bart.|appt=3 May, 1890<ref>Culme-Seymour service record. {{TNA|ADM 196/37/941.}}</ref>|end=10 May, 1892<ref>Culme-Seymour service record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/37/941.}}</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank=Vice-Admiral|name=Henry Fairfax|nick=Henry Fairfax|appt=10 May, 1892<ref>Fairfax service record. {{TNA|ADM 196/40/178.}}</ref>|end=11 May, 1894<ref>Fairfax service record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/40/176.}}</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank=Vice-Admiral|name=Robert O'Brien FitzRoy|nick=Sir Robert O'B. FitzRoy|appt=12 May, 1894<ref>FitzRoy service record. {{TNA|ADM 196/36/1252.}}</ref>|end=27 May, 1895<ref>FitzRoy service record. {{TNA|ADM 196/36/1252.}}</ref>|note=requested relief on account of health}}
{{Tenure|rank=Vice-Admiral|name=Walter Talbot Kerr|nick=The Rt. Hon. Lord Walter Kerr|appt=27 May, 1895<ref>Kerr service record. {{TNA|ADM 196/36/2069.}}</ref>|end=7 June, 1897<ref>Kerr service record. {{TNA|ADM 196/36/2069.}}</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank=Vice-Admiral|name=Henry Frederick Stephenson|nick=Sir Henry F. Stephenson|appt=7 June, 1897{{ClowesVII|p. 89}}|ass=7 June, 1897<ref>Stephenson service record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/36/1134.}}</ref>|end=19 December, 1898<ref>Stephenson service record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/36/1134.}}</ref>|note=relinquished command due to ill health}}
{{Tenure|rank=Vice-Admiral|name=Harry Holdsworth Rawson|nick=Sir Harry H. Rawson|appt=20 December, 1898<ref>Rawson service record. {{TNA|ADM 196/37/696.}}</ref>|end=16 April, 1901<ref>Rawson service record. {{TNA|ADM 196/37/696.}}</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank=Vice-Admiral|name=Arthur Knyvet Wilson, Third Baronet|nick=Sir Arthur K. Wilson|appt=17 April, 1901<ref>Wilson service record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/37/1546.}}</ref>|end=17 April, 1903<ref>Wilson service record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/37/1546.}}</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank=Vice-Admiral|name=Charles William de la Poer Beresford, First Baron Beresford|nick=Lord Charles Beresford|appt=17 April, 1903<ref>Beresford service record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/38/129.}}</ref>|succBy=Renamed as [[Channel Fleet (Royal Navy)|Channel Fleet]]|note=renamed as [[Channel Fleet (Royal Navy)|Channel Fleet]]|end=6 May, 1903<ref>Letter No 743 of 6 May, 1903.  {{TNA|ADM 144/16.}}  f. 60.</ref>}}
</div name=fredbot:office0>

==Seconds-in-Command==
Dates of appointment given:

<div name=fredbot:office1 otitle="Second-in-Command, Channel Squadron" nat="UK">
{{Tenure|rank={{RearRN}}|name=John Elphinstone Erskine|nick=John E. Erskine|appt=31 May, 1859<ref>Erskine service record. {{TNA|ADM 196/36/1193.}}</ref>|end=2 November, 1861<ref>Erskine service record. {{TNA|ADM 196/36/1193.}}</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank=Rear-Admiral|name=Henry Chads (b)|nick=Henry Chads|appt=1 October, 1869{{NLJan70|p. 180}}|end=3 October, 1870<ref>Chads service record. {{TNA|ADM 196/37.}} Not properly catalogued.</ref>|precBy=Command Unfilled}}
{{Tenure|rank=Rear-Admiral|name=Augustus Phillimore|nick=Augustus Phillimore|appt=1 January, 1876<ref>Phillimore service record. {{TNA|ADM 196/37/544.}}</ref>|end=8 November, 1876{{INF}}}}
{{Tenure|rank=Rear-Admiral|name=William Montagu Dowell|nick=William M. Dowell|appt=16 May, 1877<ref>Dowell service record. {{TNA|ADM 196/36/1044.}}</ref>|end=28 May, 1878<ref>Dowell service record. {{TNA|ADM 196/36/1044.}}</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank=Rear-Admiral|name=Henry Boys|nick=Henry Boys|appt=5 June, 1878<ref>Boys service record. {{TNA|ADM 196/36/282.}}</ref>|end=7 June, 1879<ref>Boys service record. {{TNA|ADM 196/36/282.}}</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank=Rear-Admiral|name=Henry Carr Glyn|nick=The Hon. Henry C. Glyn|appt=20 June, 1881<ref>Glyn Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/36/1415.}}</ref>|end=1 December, 1881<ref>Glyn Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/36/1415.}}</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank=Rear-Admiral|name=Francis William Sullivan, Sixth Baronet|nick=Sir Francis W. Sullivan, Bart.|appt=14 August, 1882<ref>Sullivan service record. {{TNA|ADM 196/37/1201}}</ref>|end=16 March, 1883<ref>Sullivan service record. {{TNA|ADM 196/37/1201}}</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank=Rear-Admiral|name=John Crawford Wilson|nick=John C. Wilson|appt=1 April, 1883<ref>Wilson service record. {{TNA|ADM 196/37/1551.}}</ref>|end=12 April, 1884<ref>Wilson service record. {{TNA|ADM 196/37/1551.}}</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank=Rear-Admiral|name=William Henry Whyte|nick=William H. Whyte|appt=8 May, 1884<ref>Whyte service record. {{TNA|ADM 196/37/1506.}}</ref>|end=7 May, 1885<ref>Whyte service record. {{TNA|ADM 196/37/1506.}}</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank=Rear-Admiral|name=Algernon Charles Fieschi Heneage|nick=Algernon C. F. Heneage|appt=3 July, 1885{{NLOct85|p. 188}}|ass=5 July, 1885<ref>Heneage service record. {{TNA|ADM 196/36/1750.}}</ref>|end=7 August, 1886<ref>Heneage service record. {{TNA|ADM 196/36/1750.}}</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank=Rear-Admiral|name=Edmund Robert Fremantle|nick=The Hon. Edmund R. Fremantle|appt=9 August, 1886<ref>Fremantle service record. {{TNA|ADM 196/36/1348.}}</ref>|end=18 August, 1887<ref>Fremantle service record. {{TNA|ADM 196/36/1348.}}</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank=Rear-Admiral|name=Charles John Rowley|nick=Charles J. Rowley|appt=18 August, 1887<ref>Rowley service record. {{TNA|ADM 196/37/832.}}</ref>|end=1 September, 1888<ref>Rowley service record. {{TNA|ADM 196/37/832.}}</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank=Rear-Admiral|name=St. George Caulfield D'Arcy-Irvine|nick=St. George C. D'Arcy-Irvine|appt=1 September, 1888<ref>D'Arcy-Irvine service record. {{TNA|ADM 196/36/2022.}}</ref>|end=12 September, 1889<ref>D'Arcy-Irvine service record. {{TNA|ADM 196/36/2022.}}</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank=Rear-Admiral|name=Richard Edward Tracey|nick=Richard E. Tracey|appt=12 September, 1889<ref>Tracey service record. {{TNA|ADM 196/37/109.}}</ref>|end=12 September, 1890<ref>Tracey service record. {{TNA|ADM 196/37/109.}}</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank=Rear-Admiral|name=Loftus Francis Jones|nick=Loftus F. Jones|appt=12 September, 1890<ref>Jones service record. {{TNA|ADM 196/36/2013.}}</ref>|end=14 September, 1891<ref>Jones service record. {{TNA|ADM 196/36/2013.}}</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank=Rear-Admiral|name=Edward Stanley Adeane|nick=Edward S. Adeane|appt=15 September, 1891<ref>Adeane service record. {{TNA|ADM 196/36/16.}}</ref>|end=16 September, 1892<ref>Adeane service record. {{TNA|ADM 196/36/16.}}</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank=Rear-Admiral|name=Edward Hobart Seymour|nick=Edward H. Seymour|appt=16 September, 1892<ref>Seymour service record. {{TNA|ADM 196/37/942.}}</ref>|end=25 April, 1894{{INF}}}}
{{Tenure|rank=Rear-Admiral|name=Alfred Taylor Dale|nick=Alfred T. Dale|appt=25 April, 1894<ref>Dale service record. {{TNA|ADM 196/36/930.}}</ref>|end=1 May, 1895<ref>Dale service record. {{TNA|ADM 196/36/930.}}</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank=Rear-Admiral|name=Arthur Hildebrand Alington|nick=Arthur H. Alington|appt=1 May, 1895<ref>Alington service record. {{TNA|ADM 196/36/41.}}</ref>|end=30 April, 1896<ref>Alington service record. {{TNA|ADM 196/36/41.}}</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank=Rear-Admiral|name=Armand Temple Powlett|nick=Armand T. Powlett|appt=1 May, 1896<ref>Powlett service record. {{TNA|ADM 196/37/605.}}</ref>|end=19 May, 1897<ref>Powlett service record. {{TNA|ADM 196/37/605.}}</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank=Rear-Admiral|name=John Fellowes|nick=John Fellowes|appt=19 May, 1897<ref>Fellowes service record. {{TNA|ADM 196/36/1120.}}</ref>|end=1 June, 1898<ref>Fellowes service record. {{TNA|ADM 196/36/1120.}}</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank=Rear-Admiral|name=John William Brackenbury|nick=John W. Brackenbury|appt=1 June, 1898<ref>Brackenbury service record. {{TNA|ADM 196/36/398.}}</ref>|end=1 June, 1899<ref>Brackenbury service record. {{TNA|ADM 196/36/398.}}</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank=Rear-Admiral|name=Arthur Dalrymple Fanshawe|nick=Arthur D. Fanshawe|appt=1 June, 1899<ref>Fanshawe service record. {{TNA|ADM 196/38/516.}}</ref>|end=31 May, 1900<ref>Fanshawe Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/17/93.}}</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank=Rear-Admiral|name=Albert Baldwin Jenkings|nick=Albert B. Jenkings|appt=1 June, 1900<ref>Jenkings Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/36/1766.}}</ref>|end=4 June, 1901<ref>Jenkings service record. {{TNA|ADM 196/36/1766.}}</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank=Rear-Admiral|name=William Alison Dyke Acland, Second Baronet|nick=Sir William A. D. Acland, Bart.|appt=4 June, 1901<ref>Acland service record. {{TNA|ADM 196/38/4.}}</ref>|end=5 June, 1902<ref>Acland service record. {{TNA|ADM 196/38/4.}}</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank=Rear-Admiral|name=Assheton Gore Curzon-Howe|nick=The Hon. Assheton G. Curzon-Howe|appt=5 June, 1902<ref>Curzon-Howe Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/38.}}  f. 275.</ref>|end=}}
</div name=fredbot:office1>

==Footnotes==
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==Bibliography==
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