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Revision as of 17:44, 9 February 2021
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.
The Auxiliary Patrol Base at Cromarty was closed on 31 May, 1919.[1]
In Command
- Acting Captain Henry L. Dicks, 19 January, 1915[2] – after November, 1918
King's Harbour Master
- Commander (N) Henry W. Simms, 9 October, 1913 – 23 January, 1915
- Captain James C. Tancred, 13 December, 1915 – 24 January, 1919
- Commander Morgan Tindal, 1 August, 1923[3]
- Commander Robert Mends, 1 April, 1932[4] – 29 January, 1935 (and as Naval Officer Commanding Naval Estb. at Invergordon and Scapa Flow)
- Commander Leonard G. Addington, 29 January, 1935 – 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 – 1919[5]
Captain of Dockyard
- Captain James C. Tancred, 13 December, 1915 – 24 January, 1919
See Also
Footnotes
- ↑ "Fewer Naval Bases." The Times (London, England), 2 June 1919, p. 18.
- ↑ The Navy List. (December, 1918). p. 918.
- ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1926). p. 198.
- ↑ "Naval Appointments." The Times (London, England), Saturday, February 6, 1932, Issue 46050, p.21.
- ↑ "Deaths." The Times (London, England), 22 Nov. 1944, p. 7.
