Channel Fleet - Commanding Officers

Commanding Officers

Commanders-in-Chief have included:

  • Vice Admiral Lord Anson (1746–1747)
  • Vice Admiral Augustus Keppel (1778–1779)
  • Vice Admiral Charles Hardy (1779–1780)
  • Vice Admiral Sir Francis Geary (May 1780-September 1780)
  • Vice Admiral George Darby (1780–1782)
  • Vice Admiral Earl Howe (1782–1783)
  • Vice Admiral Earl Howe (1793–1795)
  • Vice Admiral Lord Bridport (1795–1800)
  • Vice Admiral Lord St Vincent (1800–1803)
  • Vice Admiral Sir William Cornwallis (1803–1806)
  • Vice Admiral Lord St Vincent (1806–1807)
  • Vice Admiral Lord Gardner (1807–1808)
  • Vice Admiral Lord Gambier (1808–1811)
  • Vice Admiral Sir Charles Cotton (1811–1812)
  • Vice Admiral Lord Keith (1812–1814)
  • Rear Admiral Sir William Parker (1846–1847)
  • Rear Admiral Sir Charles Napier (1847–1849)
  • Commodore Sir William Martin (1849–1852)
  • Rear Admiral Armar Corry (1853–1854)
  • Vice Admiral Sir Charles Fremantle (1858–1860)
  • Vice Admiral Sir Robert Stopford (1860–1861)
  • Vice Admiral Sir Robert Smart (1861–1863)
  • Vice Admiral Sir Sydney Dacres (1863–1866)
  • Vice Admiral Sir Hastings Yelverton (1866–1867)
  • Vice Admiral Frederick Warden (1867–1868)
  • Vice Admiral Sir Thomas Symonds (1868–1870)
  • Vice Admiral Sir Hastings Yelverton (July 1870-October 1870)
  • Vice Admiral Sir George Wellesley (1870–1871)
  • Vice Admiral Sir Geoffrey Hornby (1871–1874)
  • Vice Admiral Sir Beauchamp Seymour (1874–1877)
  • Vice Admiral Lord John Hay (1877–1879)
  • Vice Admiral Lord Hood (1880–1882)
  • Vice Admiral Sir William Dowell (1882–1883)
  • Vice Admiral The Duke of Edinburgh (1883–1884)
  • Vice Admiral Sir Algernon de Horsey (1884–1885)
  • Vice Admiral Charles Fellowes (1885–1886)
  • Vice Admiral Sir William Hewett (1886–1888)
  • Vice Admiral Sir John Baird (1888–1890)
  • Vice Admiral Sir Michael Culme-Seymour (1890–1892)
  • Vice Admiral Sir Henry Fairfax (1892–1894)
  • Vice Admiral Sir Robert Fitzroy (1894–1895)
  • Vice Admiral Lord Walter Kerr (1895–1897)
  • Vice Admiral Sir Henry Stephenson (1897–1898)
  • Vice Admiral Sir Harry Rawson (1898–1901)
  • Vice Admiral Sir Arthur Wilson (1901–1903)
  • Vice Admiral Lord Charles Beresford (1903–1905)
  • Vice Admiral Sir Arthur Wilson (1905–1907)
  • Vice Admiral Lord Charles Beresford (1907–1909)
  • Vice Admiral Sir Lewis Bayly (1914-1915)

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Famous quotes containing the words commanding and/or officers:

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    “In the weakness of one kind of authority, and in the fluctuation of all, the officers of an army will remain for some time mutinous and full of faction, until some popular general, who understands the art of conciliating the soldiery, and who possesses the true spirit of command, shall draw the eyes of all men upon himself. Armies will obey him on his personal account. There is no other way of securing military obedience in this state of things.”
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