Annual Manoeuvres of 1914
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The Royal Navy's Annual Manoeuvres of 1914 were cancelled on 20th February 1914 and replaced by a test mobilisation of the Reserve Fleet[1].
The schedule for this exercise was planned to be as follows:
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:[2]
| Fleet Flagship | |||||||||||
| Lord Nelson | |||||||||||
| Battle Squadrons | |||||||||||
| Fifth | Sixth | Seventh | Eighth | ||||||||
| Prince of Wales (flag) | Russell (flag) | Prince George (flag) | Albion (flag) | ||||||||
| Bulwark | Albemarle | Hannibal (2nd flag) | Ocean (2nd flag) | ||||||||
| Formidable | Exmouth | Illustrious | Goliath | ||||||||
| Implacable | Vengeance | Magnificent | Jupiter | ||||||||
| Irresistible | Majestic | Canopus | |||||||||
| London | Mars | Glory | |||||||||
| Queen | Victorious | ||||||||||
| Cruiser Squadrons | |||||||||||
| Fifth | Sixth | Seventh | |||||||||
| Carnarvon (flag) | Good Hope (flag) | Euryalus (flag) | |||||||||
| Cornwall | Drake | Cressy | |||||||||
| Cumberland | Leviathan | Minerva | |||||||||
| Venus | |||||||||||
| Eighth | Ninth | Tenth | |||||||||
| Aboukir (flag) | Bacchante (flag) | Hogue (flag) | |||||||||
| Challenger | Diana | Charybdis | |||||||||
| Isis | Sutlej | Eclipse | |||||||||
| Juno | Talbot | Highflyer | |||||||||
| Other Forces | |||||||||||
| Training Squadron | Attached to 1st Light Cruiser Squadron | Attached Ships | Minelayer Squadron | ||||||||
| Crescent (flag) | Falmouth | Diamond (5th B.S.) | Andromache | ||||||||
| Edgar | Liverpool | Topaze (6th B.S.) | Apollo | ||||||||
| Endymion | Doris (7th B.S.) | Intrepid | |||||||||
| Gibraltar | Sapphire (8th B.S.) | Iphigenia | |||||||||
| Grafton | Latona | ||||||||||
| Royal Arthur | Unappropriated | Naiad | |||||||||
| Theseus | Vindictive | Thetis | |||||||||
Footnotes
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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