Dover Patrol
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The Dover Patrol was a Royal Navy command based in Dover and Dunkirk.
It operated continuously through the end of the war, with its strength primarily comprised of the Sixth Destroyer Flotilla, the Fifth Submarine Flotilla, the Downs Boarding Flotilla, and at times a collection of monitors. Its primary mission was to monitor barriers and defences at the eastern end of the English Channel to prevent U-boats from gaining access to western areas.
History
The command was instituted in October, 1914 under the command of Rear-Admiral Horace Hood.
In March 1919, it was renamed the Dover Patrol Force,[1] and it rapidly frittered away from there, losing its destroyers and submarines, leaving only a collection of minesweepers and "P" Boats by May.[2]
In Command
- Rear-Admiral Horace Hood, 13 October, 1914.[3]
- Vice-Admiral Reginald Bacon, 13 April, 1915.[4]
- Vice-Admiral (acting) Roger J. B. Keyes, 1 January, 1918.[5]
- Commodore Charles D. Johnson, 13 December, 1914.[6]
- Commodore Hubert Lynes, 5 July, 1917.[7]
- Commodore Frank Larken, June 1918.[8]
Footnotes
- ↑ Supplement to the Monthly Navy List. (March, 1919). p. 13.
- ↑ Supplement to the Monthly Navy List. (May, 1919). p. 14.
- ↑ Supplement to the Monthly Navy List. (December, 1914). p. 6.
- ↑ Supplement to the Monthly Navy List. (November, 1916). p. 4.
- ↑ Supplement to the Monthly Navy List. (August, 1918). p. 3.
- ↑ Supplement to the Monthly Navy List. (November, 1916). p. 4.
- ↑ Supplement to the Monthly Navy List. (December, 1917). p. 4.
- ↑ Supplement to the Monthly Navy List. (June, 1918). p. 4 shows Larken, and May shows Lynes.
