Annual Manoeuvres of 1914
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Though some preparations began on 13 July, the schedule for this exercise was planned to be as follows:[2]
Wednesday 15th July | Reserve called up |
16th and 17th July | Mobilise |
Saturday 18th July | Proceed to rendezvous |
19th to 23rd July | At rendezvous and tactical exercises at sea |
Friday 24th July | Arrive Home Ports |
Saturday 25th July, 9am | Discharge reserves |
Order of Battle
The ships of the reserve formed the Second and Third Fleets as follows under fleet flagship Lord Nelson:[3]
Battle Squadrons | |||||||||||
(+ denotes attached vessels) | |||||||||||
Fifth | Sixth | Seventh | Eighth | ||||||||
Prince of Wales | Russell | Prince George | Albion | ||||||||
Bulwark | Albemarle | Hannibal | Ocean | ||||||||
Formidable | Exmouth | Illustrious | Goliath | ||||||||
Implacable | Vengeance | Magnificent | Jupiter | ||||||||
Irresistible | Topaze+ | Majestic | Canopus | ||||||||
London | Mars | Glory | |||||||||
Queen | Victorious | Sapphire+ | |||||||||
Diamond+ | Doris+ |
Other Forces | |||||||||||
Training Squadron | 1st Light Cruiser Squadron | Minelayer Squadron | Unappropriated | ||||||||
Crescent (flag) | Falmouth+ | Andromache | Vindictive | ||||||||
Edgar | Liverpool+ | Apollo | |||||||||
Endymion | Intrepid | ||||||||||
Gibraltar | Iphigenia | ||||||||||
Grafton | Latona | ||||||||||
Royal Arthur | Naiad | ||||||||||
Theseus | Thetis |
Footnotes
- ↑ M11959/14 From Admiralty to C-in-C, Home Fleets, dated 20th February 1914. Backhouse Papers, Naval Historical Branch.
- ↑ "Naval Mobilization." The Times (London, England), 14 July 1914, p. 16.
- ↑ Vice-Admiral Cecil Burney, Second and Third Fleets Serial Orders, 11 June 1914, Backhouse Papers, Naval Historical Branch
Bibliography
- M11959/14 From Admiralty to C-in-C, Home Fleets, dated 20th February 1914. Backhouse Papers, Naval Historical Branch, Portsmouth, UK.
- Vice-Admiral Cecil Burney, Second and Third Fleets Serial Orders, 11 June 1914, Backhouse Papers, Naval Historical Branch, Portsmouth, UK
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