North Sea Squadron

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North Sea Squadron
Tudor Ensign 1485-1603.svg
Tudor Green Ensign 1485 to 1603
Active1543–1563
AllegianceFlag of England.svg  England Kingdom of England
Branch Tudor Ensign 1485-1603.svg Navy Royal
Type Squadron
RolePatrol
Part of Navy Royal
Garrison/HQ Newcastle, England.
Commanders
Notable
commanders
Vice-Admiral, Sir John Dudley, Earl of Warwick

The North Sea Squadron [1] was a temporary naval formation of the Tudor Navy Royal during the sixteenth century operating out of Newcastle, England. [2]

Contents

Command of the squadron was usually vested in the Vice-Admiral in the North Sea. [3]

Historical background

The North Sea has traditionally been an important command from the 13th to 15th centuries, when there was an Admiral of the North based at Yarmouth who commanded the Northern Fleet. During the 16th century Admirals and Vice Admirals were appointed to the command in the North Sea though on an temporary basis. From 1652 to 1654 Yarmouth was used by the Royal Navy for the temporary stationing of its North Sea Fleet during the First Anglo-Dutch War. [4] From 1745 the North Sea Fleet became a permanent formation. [5]

In command

Vice-Admiral in the North Sea

Footnotes

  1. Knighton, Dr C. S.; Loades, Professor David (2013). The Navy of Edward VI and Mary I. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. p. 573. ISBN   9781409482406.
  2. Rodger, N.A.M. (1997). "Operations - 1523 to 1550". The safeguard of the sea : a naval history of Britain. Vol 1., 660-1649. London: Penguin. p. 181. ISBN   9780140297249.
  3. Rose, Susan (2008). The Naval Miscellany. Farnham, Kent, England: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. p. 67. ISBN   9780754664314.
  4. Davies, J. D. (2008). Pepys Navy: Ships, Men and Warfare 1649-89. Seaforth Publishing. p. 195. ISBN   9781783830220.
  5. Palmer, Charles John (1856). The History of Great Yarmouth, Designed as a Continuation of Manship's History of that Town. Louis Alfred Meall, The Quay. p. 275.
  6. Loades, D. M. (1996). John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland, 1504-1553. Wotton-under-Edge, England: Clarendon Press. p. 55. ISBN   9780198201939.
  7. Rose. p.67.
  8. Glasgow, Tom (January 1977). "Vice Admiral Woodhouse and Shipkeeping in the Tudor Navy" . The Mariner's Mirror. 63 (3): 253–263. doi:10.1080/00253359.1977.10659032 . Retrieved 14 October 2018.
  9. Loades, David; Knighton, C.S. (2011). The navy of Edward VI and Mary I. Farnham: Ashgate. p. 540. ISBN   9781409418474.
  10. Loades, David; Knighton, C.S. (2011). The navy of Edward VI and Mary I. Farnham: Ashgate. p. 541. ISBN   9781409418474.
  11. Loades, David; Knighton, C.S. (2011). The navy of Edward VI and Mary I. Farnham: Ashgate. p. 551. ISBN   9781409418474.

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