A British warship inside the Admiralty IX floating dry dock at Singapore Naval Base in September 1941
Active
1865–1941
Country
United Kingdom/British Empire
Branch
Royal Navy
Type
Fleet
Part of
Admiralty
Garrison/HQ
Singapore Naval Base (1865–1942, 1945–1971) HMS Tamar (1865–1941, 1945–1997) Wei Hai Wei station on Liugong Island (1898–1930)
The Commander-in-Chief, China was a senior officer position of the British Royal Navy. The officer in this position was in charge of the Navy's vessels and shore establishments in China from 1865 to 1941. He thus directed a naval formation, which was often known, even in official documents, as the China Station.
Contents
1History
2Commanders-in-Chief
3See also
4References
History
Navy Office, Singapore
From 1831 to 1865, the East Indies Station and the China Station were a single command known as the East Indies and China Station.[1] The China Station, established in 1865, had as its area of responsibility the coasts of China and its navigable rivers, the western part of the Pacific Ocean, and the waters around the Dutch East Indies.[2] The navy often co-operated with British commercial interests in this area.
The formation had bases at Singapore (Singapore Naval Base), HMS Tamar (1865–1941 and 1945–1997) in Hong Kong and Wei Hai (1898–1930). The China Station complement usually consisted of several older light cruisers and destroyers, and the Chinese rivers were patrolled by a flotilla of suitable, shallow-draught gunboats, referred to as "China gunboats".[3] Ships on this station usually had a distinctive livery of white hull and superstructure and dark funnels. In response to increased Japanese threats, the separate China Station was merged with the East Indies Station in December 1941 to form the Eastern Fleet.[4]
Commanders-in-Chief
Dates
Admiral Commanding[1][5]
1865–1867
Vice-Admiral Sir George King
1867–1869
Vice-Admiral Sir Henry Keppel
1869–1871
Vice-Admiral Sir Henry Kellett
1871–1874
Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Shadwell
1874–1877
Vice-Admiral Sir Alfred Ryder
1877–1878
Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Hillyar
1878–1881
Vice-Admiral Robert Coote
1881–1884
Vice-Admiral Sir George Willes
1884–1885
Vice-Admiral Sir William Dowell
1885–1887
Vice-Admiral Sir Richard Hamilton
1887–1890
Vice-Admiral Sir Nowell Salmon
1890–1892
Vice-Admiral Sir Frederick Richards
1892–1895
Vice-Admiral Sir Edmund Fremantle
1895–1897
Vice-Admiral Sir Alexander Buller
1897–1901
Vice-Admiral Sir Edward Seymour
1901–1904
Vice-Admiral Sir Cyprian Bridge
1904–1906
Vice-Admiral Sir Gerard Noel
1906–1908
Vice-Admiral Sir Arthur Moore
1908–1910
Vice-Admiral Sir Hedworth Meux
1910–1913
Vice-Admiral Sir Alfred Winsloe
1913–1915
Vice-Admiral Sir Martyn Jerram
1916–1917
Vice-Admiral Sir William Grant
1917–1919
Rear-Admiral Sir Frederick Tudor
24 July 1919 – 1922
Vice-Admiral Sir Alexander Duff
10 September 1922 – November 1924
Admiral Sir Arthur Leveson
November 1924 – 1925
Rear Admiral Sir Allan Everett
1925
Rear Admiral David Anderson (acting)
22 April 1925 – 8 November 1926
Vice-Admiral Sir Edwyn Alexander-Sinclair
8 November 1926 – 28 November 1928
Vice-Admiral Sir Reginald Tyrwhitt
28 November 1928 – 28 February 1931
Vice-Admiral Sir Arthur Waistell
28 February 1931 – 11 March 1933
Vice-Admiral Sir Howard Kelly
11 March 1933 – 11 January 1936
Admiral Sir Frederic Dreyer
11 January 1936 – 5 February 1938
Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Little
5 February 1938 – 1940
Admiral Sir Percy Noble
September 1940 – November 1941
Vice Admiral Sir Geoffrey Layton
November – 2 December 1941
Admiral Sir Tom Phillips [6]
See also
List of Eastern Fleet ships
List of fleets and major commands of the Royal Navy
References
^ abWilliam Loney RN
^Royal Navy Foreign Stations
^HMS Falcon Archived 2007-09-29 at the Wayback Machine.
^The sinking of HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse
^Paul Bevand; Frank Allen (21 Oct 2007). "Commander-in-Chief, China Station". Royal Navy Fleet Officers, 1904–1945. Retrieved 4 July 2008..mw-parser-output cite.citationfont-style:inherit.mw-parser-output qquotes:"""""""'""'".mw-parser-output code.cs1-codecolor:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registrationcolor:#555.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration spanborder-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-errordisplay:none;font-size:100%.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-errorfont-size:100%.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-formatfont-size:95%.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-leftpadding-left:0.2em.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-rightpadding-right:0.2em
^Jackson, Ashley (2006). The British Empire and the Second World War. London, England: A&C Black. pp. 288–289. ISBN 9780826440495.
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