Former reserve naval fleet of the Royal Navy
Military unit
The Third Fleet was a reserve formation of the Royal Navy that briefly existed before the First World War.
History
Formed on 1 May 1912 from the 4th Division of the Home Fleet, its elderly ships were ordinarily only manned by a small maintenance crew during peacetime, but were intended to be manned by naval reservists when mobilised.[1] It was conducting a test mobilisation in July 1914 as tensions increased between Great Britain and Imperial Germany[2] and was only partially demobilised before full mobilisation was ordered on 2 August. At this time it consisted of the 7th and 8th Battle Squadrons of pre-dreadnought battleships and five squadrons of cruisers.[3]
Vice-Admiral Commanding
Components
- Included [5]
Footnotes
- ^ Wragg, p. 24
- ^ Marder, p. 432
- ^ Corbett, pp. 13, 29
- ^ Government, H.M. (October 1913). "Flag Officers - Vice Admirals". The Navy List. H.M. Stationery Office. p. 87.
- ^ Watson, Graham. "Royal Navy Organisation and Ship Deployment, Inter-War Years 1914-1918". naval-history.net. Gordon Smith, 27 October 2015. Retrieved 2 August 2017.
- ^ Watson. 2015
- ^ Watson. 2015
- ^ Watson. 2015
- ^ Watson. 2015
- ^ Watson. 2015
- ^ Watson. 2015
- ^ Watson. 2015
- ^ Watson. 2015
- ^ Watson. 2015
- ^ Watson. 2015
- ^ Watson. 2015
Bibliography
- Corbett, Julian. Naval Operations to the Battle of the Falklands. History of the Great War: Based on Official Documents. Vol. I (2nd, reprint of the 1938 ed.). London and Nashville, Tennessee: Imperial War Museum and Battery Press. ISBN 0-89839-256-X.
- Marder, Arthur J. (2013) [1961]. From Dreadnought to Scapa Flow: The Royal Navy in the Fisher Era. Vol. I: The Road to War 1904–1914. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 9781-59114-259-1.
- Wragg, David (2006). Royal Navy Handbook 1914–1918. Stroud, UK: Sutton Publishing. ISBN 0-7509-4203-7.
External links
- The Dreadnought Project: Third Fleet
