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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Morgan Tindal|nick=Morgan Tindal|appt=1 August, 1923{{NLFeb26|p. 198}}|end=}} | {{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Morgan Tindal|nick=Morgan Tindal|appt=1 August, 1923{{NLFeb26|p. 198}}|end=}} | ||
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Robert Mends|nick=Robert Mends|appt=1 April, 1932{{NavAppts|Saturday, February 6, 1932, Issue 46050, p.21}}|end=|note=and as Naval Officer Commanding Naval Estb. at Invergordon and Scapa Flow}} | {{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Robert Mends|nick=Robert Mends|appt=1 April, 1932{{NavAppts|Saturday, February 6, 1932, Issue 46050, p.21}}|end=|note=and as Naval Officer Commanding Naval Estb. at Invergordon and Scapa Flow}} | ||
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Leonard George Addington|nick=Leonard G. Addington|appt=29 August, 1939|end=August, 1940}} | |||
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Revision as of 17:45, 8 November 2019
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
- Commander Morgan Tindal, 1 August, 1923[2]
- Commander Robert Mends, 1 April, 1932[3] (and as Naval Officer Commanding Naval Estb. at Invergordon and Scapa Flow)
- Commander Leonard G. Addington, 29 August, 1939 – August, 1940
Assistant to King's Harbour Master
- Commander (retired) Arnold Kirke, 10 November, 1914 – 9 March, 1916
- Lieutenant-Commander Charles H. Fforde, 9 September, 1916 – 2 July, 1917
Captain of Dockyard
- Captain James C. Tancred, 13 December, 1915 – 24 January, 1919
See Also
Footnotes
