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|style="background:#CEDFF2" align=center colspan=4 | '''Operating from [[The Humber]]''' | |style="background:#CEDFF2" align=center colspan=4 | '''Operating from [[The Humber]]''' | ||
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|style="background:#CEDFF2" align=center colspan=4 | ''' | |style="background:#CEDFF2" align=center colspan=4 | '''Twin Screw Sweepers''' | ||
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|align=center|{{UK-Burslem}}||align=center|{{UK-Cattistock}}||align=center|{{UK-Clonmel}} (S.O.)||align=center|{{UK-Cupar}} | |align=center|{{UK-Burslem}}||align=center|{{UK-Cattistock}}||align=center|{{UK-Clonmel}}<sup><small><small><small>(S.O.)</small></small></small></sup>||align=center|{{UK-Cupar}} | ||
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|align=center|{{UK-Sherborne}}||align=center|{{UK-Sligo}}||align=center|{{UK-Southdown}} | |align=center|{{UK-Sherborne}}||align=center|{{UK-Sligo}}||align=center|{{UK-Southdown}} | ||
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|style="background:#CEDFF2" align=center colspan=4 | '''Operating from [[The Humber]]''' | |style="background:#CEDFF2" align=center colspan=4 | '''Operating from [[The Humber]]''' | ||
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|align=center|{{UK-Badminton}}*||align=center|{{UK-Burslem}}||align=center|{{UK-Cattistock}}||align=center|{{UK-Clonmel}} | |align=center|{{UK-Badminton}}*||align=center|{{UK-Burslem}}||align=center|{{UK-Cattistock}}||align=center|{{UK-Clonmel}} | ||
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|align=center|{{UK-Cupar}}||align=center|{{UK-Penarth}} (S.O.)||align=center|{{UK-Sherborne}}||align=center|{{UK-Sligo}} | |align=center|{{UK-Cupar}}||align=center|{{UK-Penarth}}<sup><small><small><small>(S.O.)</small></small></small></sup>||align=center|{{UK-Sherborne}}||align=center|{{UK-Sligo}} | ||
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===February, 1919=== | ===February, 1919=== | ||
{{UK-Penarth}} | {{UK-Penarth}} was mined on 4 February, and no ship is marked as bearing the Senior Officer.{{SMNLFeb19|p. 15}} | ||
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|style="background:#CEDFF2" align=center colspan=4 | '''Operating from [[The Humber]]''' | |style="background:#CEDFF2" align=center colspan=4 | '''Operating from [[The Humber]]''' | ||
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|style="background:#CEDFF2" align=center colspan=4 | '''Operating from [[The Humber]]''' | |style="background:#CEDFF2" align=center colspan=4 | '''Operating from [[The Humber]]''' | ||
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===May, 1919 | ===May, 1919=== | ||
By May, the formation had suddenly grown to thirteen ships.{{SMNLMay19|p. 13}} | By May, the formation had suddenly grown to thirteen ships.{{SMNLMay19|p. 13}} | ||
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|style="background:#CEDFF2" align=center colspan=6 | '''Operating from [[The Humber]]''' | |style="background:#CEDFF2" align=center colspan=6 | '''Operating from [[The Humber]]''' | ||
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|align=center|{{UK-Badminton}}||align=center|{{UK-Bicester}}||align=center|{{UK-Burslem}}||align=center|{{UK-Cattistock}}||align=center|{{UK-Clonmel}}||align=center|{{UK-Cotswold}} | |align=center|{{UK-Badminton}}||align=center|{{UK-Bicester}}||align=center|{{UK-Burslem}}||align=center|{{UK-Cattistock}}||align=center|{{UK-Clonmel}}||align=center|{{UK-Cotswold}} | ||
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|align=center colspan=6|{{UK-Tedworth}} | |align=center colspan=6|{{UK-Tedworth}} | ||
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===June, 1919 – onward=== | |||
From June, 1919 onward, the organization of Britain's minesweepers becomes indistinct, as they are simply listed together as "Vessels Employed on Mine Clearance Service". There is allegedly a separate Mine Clearance Service Weekly Return for closer detail, but we do not have any of those.{{SMNLJun19|p. 15}} | |||
==Senior Officers== | ==Senior Officers== | ||
<div name=fredbot:officeSO otitle="Senior Officer, Seventh Fleet Sweeping Flotilla" nat="UK"> | <div name=fredbot:officeSO otitle="Senior Officer, Seventh Fleet Sweeping Flotilla" nat="UK"> | ||
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Basil Richard Brooke|nick=Basil R. Brooke|appt=26 May, 1918<ref>Brooke Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/47/25.|D7603732}} f. 230.</ref>|end=December, 1918<ref>Brooke Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/47/25.|D7603732}} f. 230.</ref>}} | |||
{{Tenure|rank={{LiCRN}}|name=Peter Alexander Crawford Sturrock|nick=Peter A. C. Sturrock|appt=December, 1918{{NLMar19|p. 866}}|end=4 February, 1919{{HepperLosses|p. 148}}|note=killed when vessel mined}} | {{Tenure|rank={{LiCRN}}|name=Peter Alexander Crawford Sturrock|nick=Peter A. C. Sturrock|appt=December, 1918{{NLMar19|p. 866}}|end=4 February, 1919{{HepperLosses|p. 148}}|note=killed when vessel mined}} | ||
</div name=fredbot:officeSO> | </div name=fredbot:officeSO> | ||
Latest revision as of 12:40, 30 May 2020
The Seventh Fleet Sweeping Flotilla was a formation of fleet minesweepers of the Royal Navy that operated in the North Sea late in the war.
History
July, 1918 – c. October, 1918
The formation is based in The Humber, and its seven ships are also known as the North Sea Fast Sweeping Flotilla.[1]
| Operating from The Humber | |||
| Twin Screw Sweepers | |||
| Burslem | Cattistock | Clonmel(S.O.) | Cupar |
| Sherborne | Sligo | Southdown | |
c. October, 1918 – January, 1919
Some time between August and November 1918, the roster has changed. Penarth now bears the Senior Officer, Badminton is joining (some time in November) and Southdown has left.[2]
| Operating from The Humber | |||
| Twin Screw Sweepers | |||
| Badminton* | Burslem | Cattistock | Clonmel |
| Cupar | Penarth(S.O.) | Sherborne | Sligo |
February, 1919
Penarth was mined on 4 February, and no ship is marked as bearing the Senior Officer.[3]
| Operating from The Humber | |||
| Twin Screw Sweepers | |||
| Badminton | Burslem | Cattistock | Clonmel |
| Cupar | Sherborne | Sligo | |
March, 1919 – April, 1919
The formation is based in the Humber for operations in the North Sea. Heythrop has joined.[4]
| Operating from The Humber | |||
| Twin Screw Sweepers | |||
| Badminton | Burslem | Cattistock | Clonmel |
| Cupar | Heythrop | Sherborne | Sligo |
May, 1919
By May, the formation had suddenly grown to thirteen ships.[5]
| Operating from The Humber | |||||
| Twin Screw Sweepers | |||||
| Badminton | Bicester | Burslem | Cattistock | Clonmel | Cotswold |
| Heythrop | Holderness | Muskerry | Quorn | Sherborne | Sligo |
| Tedworth | |||||
June, 1919 – onward
From June, 1919 onward, the organization of Britain's minesweepers becomes indistinct, as they are simply listed together as "Vessels Employed on Mine Clearance Service". There is allegedly a separate Mine Clearance Service Weekly Return for closer detail, but we do not have any of those.[6]
Senior Officers
- Commander Basil R. Brooke, 26 May, 1918[7] – December, 1918[8]
- Lieutenant in Command Peter A. C. Sturrock, December, 1918[9] – 4 February, 1919[10] (killed when vessel mined)
Footnotes
- ↑ Supplement to the Monthly Navy List. (July, 1918). p. 15 and Supplements through August; September and October were unavailable to us.
- ↑ Supplement to the Monthly Navy List. (November, 1918). p. 15 and Supplements through X.
- ↑ Supplement to the Monthly Navy List. (February, 1919). p. 15.
- ↑ Supplement to the Monthly Navy List. (March, 1919). p. 15 and Supplements through April.
- ↑ Supplement to the Monthly Navy List. (May, 1919). p. 13.
- ↑ Supplement to the Monthly Navy List. (June, 1919). p. 15.
- ↑ Brooke Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/47/25. f. 230.
- ↑ Brooke Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/47/25. f. 230.
- ↑ The Navy List. (March, 1919). p. 866.
- ↑ Hepper. British Warship Losses in the Ironclad Era: 1860-1919. p. 148.
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 |
