List of Royal Navy shore establishments

Sembawang dockyard in the former HMNB Singapore (HMS Sembawang) still has RN personnel based in a building in what is now a civilian dockyard. This RN presence was retained when British Forces withdrew from Singapore in 1971, and US Navy and Five Powers Defence Arrangements ships that use this dockyard (except for those of the Republic of Singapore Navy itself) are all fuelled by the UK Ministry of Defence.^[1]

[edit] Current Royal Marines establishments

Commando Training Centre Royal Marines, Lympstone, Devon
HQ 3 Commando Brigade, Stonehouse Barracks, Plymouth, Devon
RM Poole, Hamworthy Barracks, Poole, Dorset
RM Condor, Arbroath, Angus
Norton Manor Camp, Taunton, Somerset
Bickleigh Barracks, Plymouth, Devon
RM Chivenor, Braunton, Devon
RM Instow, Instow, Devon.

Significant RM presences are also located in:

HM Naval Base Portsmouth
HM Naval Base Clyde
MOD St Athan

[edit] Current Royal Naval Reserve units and establishments

The modern RNR has fourteen Royal Naval Reserve Units (with 6 satellite units). These are:

HMS Calliope, Gateshead, Tyne & Wear, England
- Ceres Division (Leeds)
HMS Cambria, Cardiff, Wales
- Tawe Division (Swansea)
HMS Dalriada, Greenock, Scotland
- Govan Division (Glasgow)
HMS Eaglet, Liverpool, England
- Menai Division (Llandudno)
HMS Forward, Birmingham, England
HMS Flying Fox, Bristol, England
HMS Ferret, Chicksands, Bedfordshire, England
HMS Hibernia, Lisburn, Northern Ireland
HMS King Alfred, Whale Island, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England
HMS President, by Tower Bridge, London E1, England
- Medway Division (Chatham, Kent)
HMS Scotia, Rosyth, Fife, Scotland (Within the grounds of HMS Caledonia)
- Tay Division (Dundee)
HMS Sherwood, Nottingham, England
HMS Vivid, HMNB Devonport, Plymouth, Devon, England
HMS Wildfire, Northwood, Middlesex, England

[edit] Former shore establishments

[edit] Former naval bases

Main article: Royal Navy Dockyard

[edit] Former air stations

Main article: List of air stations of the Royal Navy

HMS Kestrel, World War II Royal Naval Air Station at Worthy Down, Hampshire^[2]
HMS Jackdaw II, Dunino Kingsbarns Fife Satellite airfield of Crail
HMS Osprey, naval air station, (Portland, Dorset, England) ASDIC training; Flag Officer Sea Training; RNAS Portland (Lynx helicopter)
HMS Robin, Grimsetter, Kirkwall, Orkney, Scotland, RNAS Grimsetter
HMS Tern, Twatt Orkney RNAS Twatt
HMS Nuthatch, RNAS Anthorn

[edit] Other

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HMS Abastor, Tilbury
HMS Abatos, the bombed-out Supermarine factory, Woolston, Southampton^[3]
HMS Afrikander, Base depot ship, Simon's Town, South Africa
HMS Aggressive, Coastal Forces Motor Launch (ML) and Steam Gun Boat base, Newhaven, East Sussex
HMS Allenby, Combined Operations base, Folkestone
HMS Ambrose, Headquarters of 9th Submarine Flotilla (1940-1946), Dundee, Scotland
HMS Anderson, listening station of the Far East Combined Bureau, Colombo, Ceylon
HMS Ararat (later HMS Brontosaurus), Combined Training Centre, Castle Toward, Toward, Argyll, Scotland
HMS Arbella, Combined Operations Landing Craft Training Establishment, Boston, Lincolnshire
HMS Appledore, Combined Operations base and training establishment, Fremington Camp, Fremington, Devon
HMS Appledore II, Combined Operations base, Ilfracombe
HMS Ariel (formerly HMS Kestrel), RNAS Worthy Down, Winchester, Hampshire
HMS Armanillo, Combined Operations RN Beach Commando training centre, Glenfinnart, Scotland
HMS Atlantic Isle, U-boat monitoring station, Tristan da Cunha during WWII^[4]
HMS Attack, Coastal Forces MLs and storage, RN Dockyard, Portland
HMS Badger, HQ of Flag Officer Harwich and Coastal Forces base (1939-1946), Harwich
HMS Beaver II, Coastal Forces MLs, Immingham
HMS Bee, Coastal Forces MLs working up base, Weymouth (1942-1943), then Holyhead, Wales (1943-1945)
HMS Beehive, Coastal Forces MTBs and MGBs, Boomer Hall, Felixstowe, Suffolk
HMS Bellerophon, Portsmouth, Hampshire
HMS Benbow, Trinidad
HMS Birnbeck, Secret weapons research and testing (1941-1946), Birnbeck Pier, Weston-super-Mare^[5]
HMS Bluebird III, (formerly HMS Allenby, possibly), Folkestone
HMS Boscawen, Naval Police Patrol HQ, Portland, Dorset
HMS Britannia III, Coastal Forces Motor Torpedo Boat & Motor Gun Boats, Dartmouth
HMS Brontosaurus (formerly HMS Ararat), Combined Operations landing craft crew training, Castle Toward, Toward, Argyll, Scotland
HMS Cabbala, Training establishment for WRNS W/T operators, Warrington^[6]
HMS Caledonia, Rosyth, Fife, Scotland
HMS Cambridge (1956), Wembury, Devon
HMS Caroline (1914), Coastal Forces MLs, Belfast
HMS Centurion, Gosport, Hampshire
HMS Centurion, Haslemere, Surrey
HMS Ceres (formerly HMS Demetrius), Wetherby, Yorkshire
HMS Ceres, Leeds, Yorkshire
HMS Cicala, Coastal Forces MTBs & MGBs, Dartmouth^[7]
HMS Claverhouse, Coastal Forces MLs, Leith, Scotland
HMS Cochrane (formerly RNAS Donibristle/HMS Merlin), Rosyth, Fife, Scotland
HMS Copra, Combined Operations Pay, Ratings and Accounts, The Moorings, Largs, Scotland^[8]
HMS Cricket, Landing Craft training base, River Hamble, Hampshire
HMS Dartmouth II, Coastal Forces MTBs, MGBs & MLs, Dartmouth
HMS Defiance, Torpedo school, Devonport, Devon
HMS Defiance, Fleet Maintenance Base, Devonport
HMS Dinosaur I, HQ for tank landing craft training, Troon, Ayrshire, Scotland
HMS Dinosaur II, Landing craft and work-up base, Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland
HMS Dorlin, Combined Operations RN Beach Signals and Royal Signals sections battle training, Dorlin House, Acharacle, Argyll, Scotland
HMS Dolphin, Gosport, Hampshire
HMS Dryad, former location of the Maritime Warfare School, Southwick, Hampshire
HMS Dundonald I, Holding and training base for RN Beach Commandos, Gailes Camp, Auchengate, Troon, Ayrshire, Scotland
HMS Dundonald II, Combined Signal School (CSS), Auchingate, Troon, Ayrshire, Scotland
HMS Ferret (later HMS Sea Eagle), Convoy escort base and anti-submarine training, Londonderry, Northern Ireland
HMS Fervent, Coastal Forces MTBs, MGBs & MLs, Ramsgate
HMS Fisgard, artificer and engineer training (1848-1983), Torpoint, Cornwall
HMS Flora III, Coastal Forces MLs, Invergordon, Scotland
HMS Flycatcher, HQ of Mobile Naval Air Bases during World War II, Ludham then Middle Wallop. RNAS Kai Tak from 1947.^[9]
HMS Foliot I, Landing craft accounting base, Plymouth
HMS Foliot III, Combined Operations holding base, Buckleigh, Plymouth
HMS Forte IV, Coastal Forces MLs, Falmouth
HMS Forward, Command and radar plotting centre, Newhaven
HMS Forward II (later HMS Aggressive), Coastal Forces MTBs, Newhaven
HMS Fox, Coastal Forces MTBs & MLs, Lerwick, Scotland
HMS Ganges, Boys' Training Establishment, Shotley, Ipswich, Suffolk
HMS Glendower WWII training establishment, Butlin's Pwllheli holiday camp, Caernarfonshire, Wales
HMS Golden Hind, WW2 RN Barracks, Sydney, Australia
HMS Gunner, Auxiliary Patrol base, Lerwick, Shetland
HMS Haig, Rye
HMS Helder, Landing craft training, Brightlingsea
HMS Helicon, Scapa Flow diversionary anchorage, 1939-40, Arctic convoys concentration point, 1942-44, Loch Ewe, Scotland
HMS Highflyer, Trincomalee, Ceylon
HMS Hornet, Coastal Forces Depot MTB, Gosport, Hampshire
HMS Inskip, Inskip, Preston, Lancashire
HMS Jackdaw, RNAS Crail, Fife
HMS James Cook, Combined Operations Beach Training Establishment, Glen Caladh, Nr Tighnabruaich, Argyll, Scotland
HMS Jufair, Bahrain
HMS King Alfred, WWII RNVR officer training centre, Hove, Sussex
HMS Lanka, Colombo, Ceylon
HMS Lizard, Combined Operations landing craft base, Shoreham
HMS Lochailort, Combined Operations officer training, Inverailort House, Lochailort, Inverness-shire, Scotland
HMS Lochinvar, Fleet Minesweeper base, Port Edgar, Fife, Scotland
HMS Louisburg (also HMS Roseneath), Combined Operations, Roseneath, Dunbartonshire, Scotland
HMS Malabar, Bermuda
HMS Manatee, Landing craft, Yarmouth, Isle of Wight
HMS Mastodon, Landing craft, Exbury House, Southampton
HMS Mauritius, Mauritius
HMS Medina, Landing craft and Fleet Air Arm, Puckpool, Ryde, Isle of Wight
HMS Mentor, Lews Castle, Stornoway, Western Isles, Scotland
HMS Mercury, Communications school, Petersfield, Hampshire
HMS Midge, Great Yarmouth
HMS Monck, Combined Training HQ, Largs, Ayrshire, Scotland
HMS Monck, Combined Operations Carrier Training, Port Glasgow, Scotland
HMS Monck, Roseneath, Dunbartonshire, Scotland
HMS Monck, HQ Flag Officer Greenock, Greenock, Scotland
HMS Mylodon, Lowestoft
HMS Newt, Landing craft base, Newhaven
HMS Nimrod, Anti-submarine warfare training from early 1940, Campbeltown, Argyll, Scotland
HMS Northney (HMS Northney I, HMS Northney II, HMS Northney III and HMS Northnney IV), Landing craft training base, Hayling Island
HMS Osprey, (from January 1941), Asdic training, advanced courses for officers, Dunoon, Argyll, Scotland
HMS Owl, RNAS Fearn, Fearn, Ross-shire, Scotland
HMS Pasco, Combined Operations landing craft signals training, Glenbranter Camp, Glenbranter, Strachur, Argyll, Scotland
HMS Pembroke, Chatham, Kent
HMS Phoenix, Tipner, Portsmouth, Hampshire
HMS President (parts later spun out as HMS St Vincent), Admiralty accounting base, Furse House, 37 Queen's Gate Terrace, London SW7
HMS Prosperine, Lyness, Orkney, Scotland
HMS Pyramus, Kirkwall, Orkney, Scotland
HMS Quebec, Combined Operations training, Inverary, Argyll, Scotland
HMS Robertson, Holding base for RM landing craft personnel, Kitchener Camp, Richborough, Kent
HMS Rooke, Gibraltar
HMS Roseneath (also HMS Louisburg), Combined Operations, Roseneath, Dunbartonshire, Scotland
HMS Royal Arthur, Petty Officers' training school, Butlins Skegness, later Corsham, Wiltshire^[10]
Royal Naval College, Greenwich, London
HMS St Angelo, Naval HQ, Fort St Angelo, Birgu, Malta
HMS St Christopher, Coastal Forces training base, Fort William, Inverness-shire, Scotland^[11]
HMS St George, Gosport, Hampshire
HMS St Vincent (1927-1969), Mine warfare training, Gosport, Hampshire
HMS St Vincent (1992-1998), Communications centre, Whitehall, London
HMS Salford, RNR Communications Training Centre, Salford
HMS Sanderling, RNAS Abbotsinch, Abbotsinch, Glasgow, Scotland
HMS Scotia, Basic training, 1942, from 1959 RNR Rosyth, Butlin's Ayr, South Ayrshire, Scotland
HMS Sea Eagle (formerly HMS Ferret), Eglinton, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland
HMS Sea Serpent, Bracklesham Bay and Birdham, near Chichester
HMS Seahawk, Coastal Forces training base, Ardrishaig, Argyll, Scotland^[12]
HMS Sembawang (Singapore Naval Base), was the Royal Navy's biggest dockyard and its base of operations in the Far East from 1939 until 1971. HMS Terror (1945-1971) was the barracks next to the naval base, while the nearby HMS Simbang was a RN Air Station.
HMS Sheba, Aden
HMS Spartiate, Western Approaches Command, St Enoch's Hotel, Glasgow, Scotland
HMS Squid, Tank landing craft repair base, Southampton
HMS Squid II, Landing craft squadron staff, Westcliff Hall Hotel, Hythe
HMS Standard, WWII training establishment for men who would otherwise be discharged, Kielder, Northumberland^[13]
HMS Stopford, Landing craft working-up base, Bo'ness, Scotland
HMS Tamar, Base operated from 1897 to 1997 at two locations in Hong Kong
HMS Tarlair, Hydrophone training school during World War I, Hawkcraig near Aberdour, Scotland
HMS Thunderer, Royal Naval Engineering College, Keyham and Manadon, Plymouth, Devon
HMS Tormentor, Landing craft operational base, Hamble, Southampton
HMS Tormentor II Training camp, Cowes, Isle of Wight
HMS Tullichewan (previously HMS Spartiate II), Holding base for Combined Operations, Tullichewan Castle Camp, Balloch, Loch Lomond, Scotland^[14]
HMS Turtle, Combined Operations training, Poole, Dorset
HMS Uva, Diyatalawa, Ceylon
HMS Valkyrie II, Training establishment for HO ratings, Isle of Man^[6]
HMS Varbel, X class submarine training, Port Bannatyne Hydropathic Hotel, Port Bannatyne, Isle of Bute, Scotland
HMS Varbell II, X class submarine advanced training, Ardtaraig House, Loch Striven, Argyll, Scotland
HMS Vectis, Landing craft, Seaview, Isle of Wight
HMS Vernon, Portsmouth, Hampshire
HMS Wagtail, RNAS Ayr, Scotland
HMS Warren, Combined Operations senior officer training, Largs, Ayrshire, Scotland
HMS Wasp, Coastal Forces HQ, Lord Warden Hotel, Dover^[15]
HMS Westcliffe, Flotilla training, Southend
HMS Westcliffe II, Combined Operations holding base for RM landing craft personnel, Burnham-on-Crouch, Essex
HMS Wildfire, Chatham, Kent
HMS Wildfire II (1939-1940), Combined Operations base, Sheerness
HMS Wildfire III (1940-1946), Combined Operations base, Sheerness
HMS Woolvestone, Landing craft base, Ipswich
RNAD Broughton Moor, Royal Naval Armaments Depot, Cumbria
RNAD Crombie, Fife, Scotland
RNAD Dean Hill, Salisbury, Wiltshire
RNAD Gosport including Priddy's Hard, Hampshire
RNSD Eaglescliffe, Naval Stores Depot, Teesside
RNAY Wroughton, Aircraft storage and maintenance unit, Wroughton, Swindon

[edit] See also

Admiralty Mining Establishment

[edit] References

^ Defence Fuels Group
^ Hampshire Railways Remembered. Kevin Robertson & Leslie Oppitz. 1988. ISBN 0 905392 93 0. p97
^ Doughty, Martin. Hampshire and D-Day. ISBN 1-85741-047-5.
^ "Tristan History 1942-1961". The Tristan da Cunha Website. 2011. http://www.tristandc.com/history1942-1961.php. Retrieved 5 November 2011.
^ "Birnbeck Island Pier - A short history". Friends of the Old Pier Society. http://www.birnbeckpier.org/birnbeck_pier_history.php. Retrieved 2007-06-06.
^ ^a ^b Signal!: A History of Signalling in the Royal Navy, Barrie H. Kent, Permanent Publications, 2004, ISBN 1-85623-025-2, 9781856230254
^ "Things to Do". Dartmouth Museum. http://dartmouthmuseum.org/things-to-do/#walking. Retrieved 23 August 2011. "The Royal Dart Hotel between the ferries played a vital role in the Second World War. It was called HMS Cicala then."
^ Slee, Geoff (2011). "HMS COPRA". Combined Operations. http://www.combinedops.com/COPRA.htm. Retrieved 5 November 2011.
^ "Kai Tak". Helicopter Database. 2011. http://www.helis.com/database/heliport/hk_kai_tak. Retrieved 5 November 2011.
^ "Skegness". Bygone Butlins. 2008. http://bygonebutlins.com/skegness/. Retrieved 5 November 2011.
^ Warner, Derrick (2011). "HMS St Christopher through WWII". A Short History of HMS St Christopher. http://www.mbriscoe.me.uk/page7.html. Retrieved 5 November 2011.
^ Burchell, John (2011). "Seahawk". HMS Seahawk. http://www.hmsseahawk.com/Seahawk.html. Retrieved 5 November 2011.
^ Lavery, Brian (2004). Hostilities Only - Training the Wartime Royal Navy. National Maritime Museum. ISBN 0-948065-48-6.
^ "HMS Tullichewan". Secret Scotland. 2011. http://www.secretscotland.org.uk/index.php/Secrets/HMSTullichewan. Retrieved 5 November 2011.
^ "Lord Warden Hotel". Dover : Lock and Key of the Kingdom. 2010. http://www.dover-kent.co.uk/leisure/lord_warden_hotel.htm. Retrieved 5 November 2011.

Coastal Forces Shore establishments
Combined Operations Training Establishments
Shield of Empire - The Royal Navy and Scotland, Brian Lavery, Birlinn 2007 ISBN 978-1-84158-513-0</ref>

[0] Defence Fuels Group

[1] Hampshire Railways Remembered. Kevin Robertson & Leslie Oppitz. 1988. ISBN 0 905392 93 0. p97

[2] Doughty, Martin. Hampshire and D-Day. ISBN 1-85741-047-5.

[3] "Tristan History 1942-1961". The Tristan da Cunha Website. 2011. http://www.tristandc.com/history1942-1961.php. Retrieved 5 November 2011.

[4] "Birnbeck Island Pier - A short history". Friends of the Old Pier Society. http://www.birnbeckpier.org/birnbeck_pier_history.php. Retrieved 2007-06-06.

[Signal-5] Signal!: A History of Signalling in the Royal Navy, Barrie H. Kent, Permanent Publications, 2004, ISBN 1-85623-025-2, 9781856230254

[cicala-6] "Things to Do". Dartmouth Museum. http://dartmouthmuseum.org/things-to-do/#walking. Retrieved 23 August 2011. "The Royal Dart Hotel between the ferries played a vital role in the Second World War. It was called HMS Cicala then."

[7] Slee, Geoff (2011). "HMS COPRA". Combined Operations. http://www.combinedops.com/COPRA.htm. Retrieved 5 November 2011.

[8] "Kai Tak". Helicopter Database. 2011. http://www.helis.com/database/heliport/hk_kai_tak. Retrieved 5 November 2011.

[9] "Skegness". Bygone Butlins. 2008. http://bygonebutlins.com/skegness/. Retrieved 5 November 2011.

[10] Warner, Derrick (2011). "HMS St Christopher through WWII". A Short History of HMS St Christopher. http://www.mbriscoe.me.uk/page7.html. Retrieved 5 November 2011.

[11] Burchell, John (2011). "Seahawk". HMS Seahawk. http://www.hmsseahawk.com/Seahawk.html. Retrieved 5 November 2011.

[12] Lavery, Brian (2004). Hostilities Only - Training the Wartime Royal Navy. National Maritime Museum. ISBN 0-948065-48-6.

[13] "HMS Tullichewan". Secret Scotland. 2011. http://www.secretscotland.org.uk/index.php/Secrets/HMSTullichewan. Retrieved 5 November 2011.

[14] "Lord Warden Hotel". Dover : Lock and Key of the Kingdom. 2010. http://www.dover-kent.co.uk/leisure/lord_warden_hotel.htm. Retrieved 5 November 2011.

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List of Royal Navy shore establishments

Contents

[edit] Current Royal Navy shore establishments

[edit] Naval bases

[edit] Air stations

[edit] Training establishments

[edit] Other

[edit] Defence Munitions Centres

[edit] Testing establishments

[edit] De facto shore establishments

[edit] Current Royal Marines establishments

[edit] Current Royal Naval Reserve units and establishments

[edit] Former shore establishments

[edit] Former naval bases

[edit] Former air stations

[edit] Other

[edit] See also

[edit] References

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