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Revision as of 07:41, 3 July 2019
The Scottish town of Cromarty was a minor Royal Navy base in the Great War, situated on the eastern coast on the Moray Firth. It served as the base for Auxiliary Patrol Area IV.
The armoured cruiser H.M.S. Natal was destroyed in a cataclysmic explosion on 30 December, 1915 with heavy loss of life.
Contents
In Command
- Acting Captain Henry L. Dicks, 19 January, 1915[1] – after November, 1918
King's Harbour Master
- Captain James C. Tancred, 13 December, 1915 – 24 January, 1919
- Commander Morgan Tindal, 1 August, 1923[2]
- Commander Robert Mends, 1 April, 1932[3] (and as Naval Officer Commanding Naval Estb. at Invergordon and Scapa Flow)
Assistant to King's Harbour Master
- Commander (retired) Arnold Kirke, 10 November, 1914 – 9 March, 1916
Captain of Dockyard
- Captain James C. Tancred, 13 December, 1915 – 24 January, 1919
See Also
Footnotes
- ↑ The Navy List. (December, 1918). p. 918.
- ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1926). p. 198.
- ↑ "Naval Appointments." The Times (London, England), Saturday, February 6, 1932, Issue 46050, p.21.
