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East Africa Command Active 1862–1962 Country United Kingdom Allegiance British Empire Branch Royal Navy Part of
East Indies Station (1862-1918)
Cape of Good Hope Station (1918-1938)
East Indies Station (1939-1941)
Eastern Fleet Command (1942-1945)
East Indies Station (1945-1958) Garrison/HQ HMS Tana (RN base, Kilindini , Mombasa , Kenya , (1914–1945)
Military unit
The East Africa Station and originally known as East Coast of Africa Station (1862–1919) was a military unit of the British Royal Navy administered by the Flag Officer, East Africa and initially a sub-command of the East Indies Station then later Eastern Fleet from 1862 to 1962.
History During the 1850s and 1860s the British Royal Navy was operating in the Indian Ocean off the coast of East Africa fighting to suppress the Eastern Slave trade operating out of Zanzibar up to the North Coast of the Arabian Sea .[1] East Africa Squadron [2] East Indies Station . In 1873 treaties were signed between Great Britain and the Sultanates of Muscat and Oman and Zanzibar allowing for a permanent naval presence on the Zanzibar coast.[3] [4] [5] World War I British naval operations were gradually scaled down.
The East Coast of Africa Station' was re-established in 1914 within the British East Africa Protectorate as a sub-command of the East Indies Station .[6] Tanganyika and the other at Zanzibar. Its principal role was to protect British commerce from German surface raiders – then seen as priority between 1914–1915.[7] Cape of Good Hope Station was assigned the duties of the East Coast of Africa command . During the inter-war period the command was scaled down to non-operational status.
The Kilidini (Kenya) station was re-established to operational status in September 1939 at the start of World War II , while Kenya was a British colony . Kilindini became the temporary command base of the British Eastern Fleet from early 1942 until the Japanese naval threat to Colombo , Ceylon (now Sri Lanka ) had subsided by January 1945.[8] [9] Royal East African Navy from 1952 to 1962.
Administration World War I Naval Officer-in-Charge, Zanzibar
Rank
Insig
Name
Term
Notes/Ref
Naval Officer-in-Charge, Zanzibar
1
Commander Oswald C. M. Barry
20 November, 1918–1919
[10]
Senior Naval Officer, Tanganyika
Rank
Insig
Name
Term
Notes/Ref
Senior Naval Officer, Tanganyika
1
Lieutenant-Commander Leonard Spain
12 September, 1918 – April 1919
[11]
Officer Commanding, RNAS East Indies Naval Air Station.
Rank
Insig
Name
Term
Notes/Ref
Officer Commanding, RNAS East Indies Naval Air Station
1
Commander
Robert Gordon January, 1915– September 1915
World War II Senior British Naval Officer, Kilindini (Kenya)
Rank
Insig
Name
Term
Notes/Ref
Senior British Naval Officer, Kilindini (Kenya)
1
Commander
D. E. Blunt (retd)
1 September 1939 – April 1942
[12]
Flag Officer, East Africa and Admiral Superintendent, H.M. Dockyard, Kilindini Commodore, Naval Air Stations, East Africa
Rank
Flag
Name
Term
Notes/Ref
Commodore, Naval Air Stations, East Africa
1
Rear-Admiral
F. Elliott
19 August 1943 – 1 January 1945
[16]
Air units in this command Various units that served in this command included:
Naval units in this command Various units that served in this command included:[17]
Units
Date
Notes
3 cruisers , 2 monitors , AMC
1915
allocated to East Africa
4 cruisers, 2 AMC's , 2 monitors, 1 kite balloon ship
1916
ditto
3 cruisers, 2 monitors, 1 AMC, 1 sloop , 1 gunboat
1917
ditto
4th Cruiser Squadron 1942
as part of Eastern Fleet transferred to Kilidini
Tanganyika Naval Volunteer Force
1939–1942
minesweeping, coast watching and coastal patrol duties and manning of signal stations[18]
Zanzibar Naval Volunteer Force
1939–1942
ditto
Eastern Fleet April 1942 – November 1943
The full fleet transferred here from Ceylon inc CINC Eastern Fleet [19]
East African Naval Force
1942 – 13 May 1952
formed from the merger of TNVF and ZNVF into one command [20]
Royal East African Navy 13 May 1952 - 1962
EANF renamed in May 1952 [21]
References
^ Howell, Raymond (1987). The Royal Navy and the slave trade . London: Croom Helm. p. 119. ISBN 9780709947707 ^ Society, the Church Missionary. "The slave trade of east Africa" . wikisource.org . The Church Missionary Society, 1869. Retrieved 4 July 2018 . ^ "Sudans Twentyyear Refugee Dilemma". The International Journal of African Historical Studies . 21 (1–2). Africana Publishing Company: 184. ^ Davis, Paul. "The Frere mission to Zanzibar" . www.pdavis.nl . P. L. Davis, 2010–2018. Retrieved 4 July 2018 . ^ Hazell's Annual . Aylesbury, England: Hazell, Watson & Viney. 1905. p. 74.^ Friedman, Norman (2014). Fighting the Great War at Sea: Strategy, Tactic and Technology ISBN 9781848321892 ^ Watson, Dr Graham. "Royal Navy Organisation and Ship Deployment, Inter-War Years 1914–1918" . naval-history.net . Gordon Smith, 27 October 2015. Retrieved 4 July 2018 . ^ Argyle, C.J. (1976). Japan at war, 1937–45 . London: A. Barker. p. 111. ISBN 9780213165864 ^ Navy List Quarterly Volume 1 ^ The Navy List . London, England: H.M Stationary Office. May 1919. p. 877.^ The Navy List: Supplement ^ "Flag Officers in Commission etc.". The Navy List . London, England: H. M. Stationary Office. August 1940. p. 874. ^ Kindell, Don. "Eastern Fleet, Admiralty War Diary 1942" . www.naval-history.net . Gordon Smith, 14 July 2011. Retrieved 5 July 2018 . ^ Wells, Anne Sharp (2000). The Anglo-American "special relationship" during the Second World War : a selective guide to materials in the British Library . [London]: Eccles Centre for American Studies, The British Library. p. 25. ISBN 0712344268 ^ Houterman, J.N. "Royal Navy (RN) Officers 1939-1945 - S:" . unithistories.com . Houterman and Kloppes. Retrieved 4 July 2018 . ^ The navy list ^ Watson, Dr Graham. "Royal Navy Organisation and Ship Deployment, Inter-War Years 1914–1918" . www.naval-history.net . Gordon Smith, 27 October 2015. Retrieved 5 July 2018 . ^ "TANGANYIKA'S NAVY, C. 19 OCTOBER 1944" . Imperial War Museums . Imperial War Museum, UK. Retrieved 5 July 2018 .^ ^ Page, Malcolm (2011). King's African Rifles: A History . Pen and Sword. p. 264. ISBN 9780850525380 ^ Page, Malcolm (2011). King's African Rifles: A History . Pen and Sword. p. 264. ISBN 9780850525380
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Sudans Twentyyear Refugee Dilemma". The International Journal of African Historical Studies. Africana Publishing Company. 21 (1–2): 184.
The navy list. (1944), London, England: London : Her Majesty's Stationery Office.
Watson, Dr Graham. (2015) "Royal Navy Organisation and Ship Deployment, Inter-War Years 1914–1918". naval-history.net. Gordon Smith.
Wells, Anne Sharp (2000). The Anglo-American "special relationship" during the Second World War : a selective guide to materials in the British Library. [London]: Eccles Centre for American Studies, The British Library. ISBN 0712344268 . External links
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