Twelfth Fleet Sweeping Flotilla (Royal Navy): Difference between revisions

From The Dreadnought Project
Jump to navigationJump to search
Line 2: Line 2:


==History==
==History==
===February, 1919 – X===
The formation is based in Harwich alongside the [[Sixth Fleet Sweeping Flotilla (Royal Navy)|Sixth (or Harwich)]], [[Nineteenth Fleet Sweeping Flotilla (Royal Navy)|Nineteenth]] and [[Twentieth Fleet Sweeping Flotilla (Royal Navy)|Twentieth (or Felixstowe)]] Fleet Sweeping Flotillas.
{{UK-Gaddesden}} is paid off.{{SMNLMar19|p. 15 and Supplements through X}}
{|style="margin:0" width=75% class="toccolours"
|-
|style="background:#CEDFF2" align=center colspan=6 | '''Operating from [[Harwich]]'''
|-
|style="background:#CEDFF2" align=center colspan=6 | '''Sweeping Sloops'''
|-
|align=center|{{UK-Gaddesden}}*||align=center |{{UK-Irvine}}||align=center|{{UK-Kendal}}||align=center |{{UK-Marlow}}||align=center |{{UK-Saltburn}}||align=center |{{UK-Southdown}}
|}


==Senior Officers==
==Senior Officers==

Revision as of 18:31, 14 December 2018

The Twelfth Fleet Sweeping Flotilla was a formation of fleet minesweepers of the Royal Navy that operated out of Clyde and Harwich late in the war alongside the sweeping gunboats of the Thirteenth Fleet Sweeping Flotilla.

History

February, 1919 – X

The formation is based in Harwich alongside the Sixth (or Harwich), Nineteenth and Twentieth (or Felixstowe) Fleet Sweeping Flotillas. Gaddesden is paid off.[1]

Operating from Harwich
Sweeping Sloops
Gaddesden* Irvine Kendal Marlow Saltburn Southdown

Senior Officers

Footnotes

  1. Supplement to the Monthly Navy List. (March, 1919). p. 15 and Supplements through X.

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