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Commander-in-Chief, North American Station

For the Army see Commander-in-Chief, North America

Contents

The Commander-in-Chief, North American Station commanded the North America and West Indies Station of the Royal Navy.

Commanders

Commanders of the station have included:

North American Station

  • Commodore James Douglas (1746–48)
  • Commodore Charles Watson (1748–49)
  • Commodore Augustus Keppel (1751–55)
  • Commodore Lord Alexander Colville (November 1759 – October 1762)
  • Commodore Richard Spry (October 1762 – October 1763)
  • Rear Admiral Lord Alexander Colville (October 1763 – September 1766)
  • Captain Joseph Deane, September 1766 – November 1766 (senior captain)
  • Captain Archibald Kennedy, November 1766 – July 1767 (senior captain)
  • Commodore Samuel Hood (July 1767 – October 1770)
  • Commodore James Gambier (October 1770 – August 1771)
  • Rear Admiral John Montagu (August 1771 – June 1774)
  • Vice Admiral Samuel Graves (June 1774 – January 1776)
  • Vice Admiral Richard Howe (February 1776 – September 1778)
  • Vice Admiral James Gambier (1778–79)
  • Vice Admiral John Byron (1779)
  • Vice Admiral Mariot Arbuthnot (1779–81)
  • Vice Admiral Sir Thomas Graves (1781)
  • Rear Admiral Robert Digby (1781–83)
  • Rear Admiral Sir Charles Douglas (1783–85)
  • Vice Admiral Sir Herbert Sawyer (1785–89)
  • Vice Admiral Sir Richard Hughes (1789–92)
  • Vice Admiral George Murray (1793–96)
  • Vice Admiral George Vandeput (1797–1800)
  • Vice Admiral Sir William Parker (1800–02)
  • Vice Admiral Sir Andrew Mitchell (1802–06)
  • Vice Admiral Sir George Cranfield-Berkeley (1806–07)
  • Vice Admiral Sir John Warren (1807–10)
  • Vice Admiral Sir Herbert Sawyer (1810–13)
  • Admiral Sir John Warren (1813–14)
  • Vice Admiral Sir Alexander Cochrane (1814–15)
  • Vice Admiral Sir David Milne (1816)
  • Vice Admiral Sir Edward Colpoys (1816–21)

    • North America and West Indies Station

  • Vice Admiral Sir William Fahie (1821–24)
  • Vice Admiral Sir Willoughby Lake (1824–27)
  • Vice Admiral Sir Charles Ogle (1827–30)
  • Vice Admiral Sir Edward Colpoys (1830–32)
  • Vice Admiral Sir George Cockburn (1832–36)
  • Vice Admiral Sir Peter Halkett (1836–37)
  • Vice Admiral Sir Charles Paget (1837–39)
  • Vice Admiral Sir Thomas Harvey (1839–41)
  • Vice Admiral Sir Charles Adam (1841–44)
  • Vice Admiral Sir Francis Austen (1844–48)
  • Vice Admiral Sir Thomas Cochrane (1848–51)
  • Vice Admiral Sir George Seymour (1851–53)
  • Vice Admiral Sir Arthur Fanshawe (1853–56)
  • Vice Admiral Sir Houston Stewart (1856–60)
  • Vice Admiral Sir Alexander Milne (1860–64)
  • Vice Admiral Sir James Hope (1864–67)
  • Vice Admiral Sir Rodney Mundy (1867–69)
  • Vice Admiral Sir George Wellesley (1869–70)
  • Vice Admiral Sir Edward Fanshawe (1870–73)
  • Vice Admiral Sir George Wellesley (1873–75)
  • Vice Admiral Sir Astley Key (1875–78)
  • Vice Admiral Sir Edward Inglefield (1878–79)
  • Vice Admiral Sir Francis McClintock (1879–82)
  • Vice Admiral Sir John Commerell (1882–85)
  • Vice Admiral The Earl of Clanwilliam (1885–86)
  • Vice Admiral Sir Algernon Lyons (1886–88)
  • Vice Admiral Sir George Watson (1888–91)
  • Vice Admiral Sir John Hopkins (1891–95)
  • Vice Admiral Sir James Erskine (1895–97)
  • Vice Admiral Sir Jackie Fisher (1897–99)
  • Vice Admiral Sir Frederick Bedford (1899–15 July 1902)
  • Vice Admiral Sir Archibald Douglas (15 July 1902–1904)
  • Vice Admiral Sir Day Bosanquet (1904–07)
    • Vacant (1907–13)
  • Vice Admiral Sir Christopher Cradock (1913–14)
  • Rear Admiral Robert Hornby (1914–15)
  • Vice Admiral Sir George Patey (1915–16)
  • Vice Admiral Sir Montague Browning (1916–18)
  • Vice Admiral Sir William Grant (1918–19)
  • Vice Admiral Sir Morgan Singer (1919)
  • Vice Admiral Sir Trevylyan Napier (1919–20)
  • Vice Admiral Sir William Pakenham (1920–23)
  • Vice Admiral Sir Michael Culme-Seymour (1923–24)
  • Vice Admiral Sir James Fergusson (1924–26)

    • America and West Indies Station

  • Vice Admiral Sir Walter Cowan (1926–28)
  • Vice Admiral Sir Cyril Fuller (1928–30)
  • Vice Admiral Sir Vernon Haggard (1930–32)
  • Vice Admiral Sir Reginald Plunkett (1932–34)
  • Vice Admiral Sir Matthew Best (1934–37)
  • Vice Admiral Sir Sidney Meyrick (1937–40)
  • Vice Admiral Sir Charles Kennedy-Purvis (1940–42)
  • Vice Admiral Sir Alban Curteis (1942–44)
  • Vice Admiral Sir Irvine Glennie (1944–45)
  • Vice Admiral Sir William Tennant (1946–49)
  • Vice Admiral Sir Richard Symonds-Tayler (1949–51)
  • Vice Admiral Sir William Andrewes (1951–53)
  • Vice Admiral Sir John Stevens (1953–55)
  • Vice Admiral Sir John Eaton (1955–56)

    • References

    Commander-in-Chief, North American Station Wikipedia
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