Eleventh Cruiser Squadron (Royal Navy)
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The Eleventh Cruiser Squadron, or, from 1914 to 1915, Cruiser Force E, was a cruiser squadron of the Royal Navy.
Rear Admirals and Captains Commanding
Dates of appointment given:
- Rear-Admiral Robert S. Phipps Hornby, 1 August, 1914 - 5 September, 1914.[1]
- Rear-Admiral Henry L. Tottenham, 5 September, 1914 - 5 April, 1915.[2]
- Rear-Admiral The Honourable Horace L. A. Hood, 19 April, 1915 - 24 May, 1915.[3]
- Captain Drury St. A. Wake, 24 May, 1915[4]|end=12 March, 1917[5]|note=Commodore, Second Class from 20 October, 1915[6]|as=Captain Commanding, Eleventh Cruiser Squadron
Composition
December, 1912
December, 1913
Same strength as last year, but Vindictive has gone to the Ninth Cruiser Squadron and Hermione to the Fourth Cruiser Squadron and been replaced by Juno and Venus, from unknown previous assignments.[8]
July - 5 August, 1914
Serving as part of Third Fleet, the squadron was:[9][10]
Footnotes
- ↑ Phipps Hornby Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 338.
- ↑ Tottenham Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/39. f. 1320.
- ↑ Hood Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 114.
- ↑ Wake Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/20. f. 638.
- ↑ Wake Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/20. f. 638.
- ↑ Wake Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/20. f. 638.
- ↑ Albert Francis Barclay Bridges papers at The Caird Library at the National Maritime Museum. [BRG 1/1]
- ↑ Albert Francis Barclay Bridges papers at The Caird Library at the National Maritime Museum. [BRG 1/1]
- ↑ Printed page "Fleets and Squadrons in Commission at Home and Abroad" in Albert Francis Barclay Bridges papers at The Caird Library at the National Maritime Museum. [BRG 1/1]
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 15.
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