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Revision as of 19:34, 5 January 2018
The Scottish town of Cromarty was a minor Royal Navy base in the Great War, situated on the eastern coast on the Moray Firth. It served as the base for Auxiliary Patrol Area IV.
The armoured cruiser H.M.S. Natal was destroyed in a cataclysmic explosion on 30 December, 1915 with heavy loss of life.
In Command
- Acting Captain Henry L. Dicks, 19 January, 1915[1] – after November, 1918
King's Harbour Master
- Captain James C. Tancred, 13 December, 1915 – 24 January, 1919
Captain of Dockyard
- Captain James C. Tancred, 13 December, 1915 – 24 January, 1919
See Also
Footnotes
- ↑ The Navy List. (December, 1918). p. 918.
