Commanders in Chief of The Mediterranean Fleet
Commanders-in-Chief have included:
| Commander-in-chief | From | To | Flagship | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Saunders | January 1757 | May 1757 | ||
| Vice-Admiral Henry Osborn | May 1757 | April 1760 | ||
| Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Saunders | April 1760 | 1763 | ||
| Vice-Admiral Augustus Hervey | 1763 | ? | ||
| Vice-Admiral Sir Richard Spry | 1766 | 1769 | ||
| Vice-Admiral Earl Howe | 1770 | c.1776 | ||
| c.1776 | 1783 | |||
| Vice-Admiral Sir John Lindsay | 1783 | 1784 | ||
| Vice-Admiral Phillips Cosby | 1785 | 1789 | ||
| 1789 | 1792 | |||
| Rear-Admiral Samuel Granston Goodall | 1792 | 1793 | ||
| Vice-Admiral Sir Samuel Hood | February 1793 | October 1794 | ||
| Vice-Admiral Lord Hotham | October 1794 | November 1795 | ||
| Vice-Admiral Lord Jervis | 1796 | 1799 | ||
| Vice-Admiral Lord Keith | November 1799 | 1802 | ||
| Vice-Admiral Lord Nelson | May 1803 | January 1805 | Died after Battle of Trafalgar | |
| Vice-Admiral Lord Collingwood | 1805 | 1810 | ||
| Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Cotton | 1810 | 1811 | ||
| Vice-Admiral Sir Edward Pellew | 1811 | 1814 | ||
| Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Penrose | 1814 | 1815 | ||
| Vice-Admiral Lord Exmouth | 1815 | 1816 | ||
| Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Penrose | 1816 | 1818 | ||
| Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas Fremantle | 1818 | 1820 | ||
| Vice-Admiral Sir Graham Moore | 1820 | 1823 | ||
| Vice-Admiral Sir Harry Burrard-Neale | 1823 | 1826 | ||
| Vice-Admiral Sir Edward Codrington | 1826 | 1828 | ||
| Vice-Admiral Sir Pulteney Malcolm | 1828 | 1831 | ||
| Vice-Admiral Sir Henry Hotham | 30 March 1831 | 19 April 1833 | Died 19 April 1833. | |
| Vice-Admiral Sir Pulteney Malcolm | 3 May 1833 | 18 December 1833 | ||
| Vice-Admiral Sir Josias Rowley | 18 December 1833 | 9 February 1837 | ||
| Admiral Sir Robert Stopford | 9 February 1837 | 14 October 1841 | ||
| Vice-Admiral Sir Edward Owen | 14 October 1841 | 27 February 1845 | ||
| Vice-Admiral Sir William Parker | 27 February 1845 | 13 July 1846 | Parker was briefly First Naval Lord in July 1846 but requested permission to return to the Mediterranean on ground of his health | |
| Vice-Admiral Sir William Parker | 24 July 1846 | 17 January 1852 | ||
| Rear-Admiral Sir James Dundas | 17 January 1852 | 1854 | Vice-Adm. 17 December 1852 | |
| Rear-Admiral Sir Edmund Lyons | 1854 | 22 February 1858 | Vice-Adm. 19 March 1857 | |
| Vice-Admiral Sir Arthur Fanshawe | 22 February 1858 | 19 April 1860 | Marlborough | |
| Vice-Admiral Sir William Martin | 19 April 1860 | 20 April 1863 | Marlborough | |
| Vice-Admiral Sir Robert Smart | 20 April 1863 | 28 April 1866 | Marlborough then Victoria | |
| Vice-Admiral Lord Clarence Paget | 28 April 1866 | 28 April 1869 | Victoria then Caledonia | |
| Vice-Admiral Sir Alexander Milne | 28 April 1869 | 25 October 1870 | Lord Warden | Adm. 1 April 1870 |
| Vice-Admiral Sir Hastings Yelverton | 25 October 1870 | 13 January 1874 | Lord Warden | |
| Vice-Admiral Sir James Drummond | 13 January 1874 | 15 January 1877 | Lord Warden then Hercules | |
| Vice-Admiral Sir Geoffrey Hornby | 5 January 1877 | 5 February 1880 | Alexandra | Adm. 15 June 1879 |
| Vice-Admiral Sir Beauchamp Seymour | 5 February 1880 | 7 February 1883 | Inconstant and Alexandra | Adm. 6 May 1882 |
| Vice-Admiral Lord John Hay | 7 February 1883 | 5 February 1886 | Alexandra | Adm. 8 July 1884 |
| Vice-Admiral H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh | 5 February 1886 | 11 March 1889 | Alexandra | Adm. 18 October 1887 |
| Vice-Admiral Sir Anthony Hoskins | 11 March 1889 | 20 August 1891 | Alexandra Camperdown Victoria |
Adm. 20 June 1891 |
| Vice-Admiral Sir George Tryon | 20 August 1891 | 22 June 1893 | Victoria | Died in commission; lost in Victoria |
| Admiral Sir Michael Culme-Seymour | 29 June 1893 | 10 November 1896 | Ramillies | |
| Admiral Sir John Hopkins | 10 November 1896 | 1 July 1899 | Ramillies | |
| Admiral Sir John Fisher | 1 July 1899 | 1902 | Renown | |
| Admiral Sir Compton Domvile | 1902 | June 1905 | Bulwark | |
| Admiral Lord Charles Beresford | 1 May 1905 6 June 1905 |
February 1907 | Bulwark | |
| Admiral Sir Charles Drury | 5 March 1907 27 March 1907 |
1908 | Queen | |
| Admiral Sir Assheton Curzon-Howe | 20 November 1908 20 November 1908 |
1910 | Exmouth | |
| Admiral Sir Edmund Poë | 30 April 1910 30 April 1910 |
November 1912 | Exmouth | |
| Admiral Sir Berkley Milne | 1 June 1912 12 June 1912 |
27 August 1914 | Inflexible | |
| During World War I, the station was divided up in different ways at different times. There was an overall Allied Commander in Chief, who was from the French Navy and is not listed here. Post titles have been put in bold in the notes column. | ||||
| Admiral Sir Somerset Gough-Calthorpe | 26 August 1917 | 25 July 1919 | Commander-in-Chief Mediterranean | |
| Vice Admiral Sir John de Robeck | 26 July 1919 | 14 May 1922 | Iron Duke | |
| Vice Admiral Sir Osmond Brock | 15 May 1922 | 7 June 1925 | Iron Duke | Admiral 31 July 1924 |
| Admiral Sir Roger Keyes | 8 June 1925 | 7 June 1928 | Warspite | |
| Admiral Sir Frederick Field | 8 June 1928 | 28 May 1930 | Queen Elizabeth | |
| Admiral Sir Ernle Chatfield | 27 May 1930 | 31 October 1932 | Queen Elizabeth | |
| Admiral Sir William Fisher | 31 October 1932 | 19 March 1936 | Resolution later Queen Elizabeth | |
| Admiral Sir Dudley Pound | 20 March 1936 | 31 May 1939 | Queen Elizabeth | |
| During World War II, the Mediterranean Station was split between commands some of the time. Post titles in the notes column. | ||||
| Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham | 1 June 1939 |
March 1942 | Warspite HMS St Angelo (base, Malta) Warspite |
Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean Fleet. Vice-Admiral Cunningham was given acting rank of Admiral on 1 June 1930, and promoted to Admiral on 3 January 1941. |
| Admiral Sir Henry Harwood | 22 April 1942 | February 1943 | Warspite HMS Nile (base, Alexandria) |
Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean Fleet. Vice-Admiral Harwood was given acting rank of Admiral. |
| Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham | 1 November 1942 | 20 February 1943 | HMS Hannibal (base, Algiers) | Naval Commander Expeditionary Force (NCXF) North Africa and Mediterranean |
| In the first half of 1943 the Mediterranean Fleet Command was split into a command of ships and a command of ports & naval bases: Mediterranean Fleet: C-in-C Med Fleet, 15th Cruiser Squadron, Cdre. (D) Levant: C-in-C Levant, Alexandria, Malta, Port Said, Haifa, Bizerta, Tripoli, Mersa Matruh, Benghazi, Aden, Bone, Bougie, Philippeville Levant was renamed Eastern Mediterranean in late December 1943. |
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| Admiral of the Fleet Sir Andrew Cunningham | 20 February 1943 | 15 October 1943 | HMS Hannibal (base, Algiers/Taranto) | Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean Fleet. |
| Admiral Sir John Cunningham | 15 October 1943 | February 1946 | HMS Hannibal (base, Algiers/Taranto) | Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean Station & Allied Naval Commander Mediterranean |
| Admiral Sir John Cunningham | 5 June 1943 | August 1943 | HMS Nile (base, Alexandria) | Commander-in-Chief, Levant. |
| Vice Admiral Sir Algernon Willis temporary | 14 October 1943 | December 1943 | HMS Nile (base, Alexandria) | Commander-in-Chief, Levant. |
| Vice Admiral Sir Bernard Rawlings | 28 December 1943 | June 1944 | HMS Nile (base, Alexandria) | Flag Officer, Eastern Mediterranean. From 8 June 1944 Sir H. Bernard Rawlings |
| Admiral Sir Algernon Willis | 1946 | 1948 | HMS St Angelo (base, Malta) | |
| Admiral Sir Arthur Power | 1948 | 1950 | HMS St Angelo (base, Malta) | Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean |
| Admiral Sir John Edelsten | 1950 | 1952 | HMS St Angelo (base, Malta) | Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean |
| Admiral Earl Mountbatten of Burma | 1952 | 1954 | HMS St Angelo (base, Malta) | Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean |
| Admiral Sir Guy Grantham | 10 Dec 1954 | 10 Apr 57 | HMS St Angelo (base, Malta) | |
| Vice Admiral Sir Ralph Edwards | 10 Apr 57 | 11 Nov 58 | HMS St Angelo (base, Malta) | |
| Admiral Sir Charles Lambe | 11 Nov 58 | 2 Feb 59 | HMS Phoenicia (base, Malta) | |
| Admiral Sir Alexander Bingley | 2 Feb 59 | 30 Jun 61 | HMS Phoenicia (base, Malta) | |
| Admiral Sir Deric Holland-Martin | 30 Jun 61 | 1 Feb 64 | HMS Phoenicia (base, Malta) | |
| Admiral Sir John Hamilton | 1 Feb 1964 | 5 June 1967 | HMS St Angelo (base, Malta) | |
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