Dover Patrol
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Jump to navigationJump to searchThe Dover Patrol was a Royal Navy command based in Dover and Dunkirk, apparently instituted in June, 1915.[1]
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 (which was created earlier than the Dover Patrol, and 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.
In March 1919, it was renamed the Dover Patrol Force,[2] and it rapidly frittered away from there, losing its destroyers and submarines, leaving only a collection of minesweepers and "P" Boats by May.[3]
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