This is a list of shore establishments (or "stone frigates") of the Royal Navy and Royal Naval Reserve. [edit] Current Royal Navy shore establishments Naval bases Air stations Training establishments Other Defence Munitions Centres, formerly Royal Naval Armaments Depot and formally elements of Defence Equipment & Support Testing establishments - Vulcan NRTE (Naval Reactor Test Establishment) (HMS Vulcan) Dounreay, Thurso, Caithness, Scotland.
De facto shore establishments [edit] Current Royal Marines establishments - Commando Training Centre Royal Marines, Lympstone, Devon
- HQ 3 Commando Brigade, Stonehouse Barracks, Plymouth, Devon
- RM Poole, Hamworthy Barracks, Poole, Dorset
- RM Condor, Arbroath, Angus
- Norton Manor Camp, Taunton, Somerset
- Bickleigh Barracks, Plymouth, Devon
- RM Chivenor, Braunton, Devon
Significant RM presences are also located in: - HMS Excellent
- HM Naval Base Portsmouth
- HM Naval Base Clyde
- MOD St Athan
[edit] Current Royal Naval Reserve units and establishments The modern RNR has fourteen Royal Naval Reserve Units (with 6 satellite units). These are: - HMS Calliope, Gateshead, Tyne & Wear, England
- HMS Cambria, Cardiff, Wales
- HMS Caroline, Belfast,
- HMS Dalriada, Greenock, Scotland
- HMS Eaglet, Liverpool, England
- HMS Forward, Birmingham, England
- HMS Flying Fox, Bristol, England
- HMS Ferret, Chicksands, Bedfordshire, England
- HMS King Alfred, Whale Island, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England
- HMS President, London E1, England
- Medway Division, Chatham, Kent)
- HMS Scotia, Rosyth, Fife, Scotland (Within the grounds of HMS Caledonia)
- HMS Sherwood, Nottingham, England
- HMS Vivid, HMNB Devonport, Plymouth, Devon, England
- HMS Wildfire, Northwood, Middlesex, England
[edit] Former Shore Establishments [2] [3] [4] - HMS Abatos[5] at the bombed out Supermarine factory in Woolston, Southampton.
- HMS Afrikander (Simonstown, South Africa)
- HMS Aggressive Newhaven, Sussex - Coastal Forces Motor Launches (ML) and Steam Gun Boats
- HMS Allenby Folkestone, England Combined Operations base
- HMS Ambrose Dundee Scotland Headquarters of Ninth Submarine Flotilla 1940
- HMS Ararat Castle Toward, Toward, Argyll Combined Training Centre later renamed HMS Brontosaurus
- HMS Arbella Boston, Lincolnshire, England
- HMS Appledore Fremingham Camp, Appledore, England Combined Operations
- HMS Appledore II Ilfracombe, England Combined Operations
- HMS Ariel (formerly HMS Kestrel) (RNAS Worthy Down, Winchester, Hampshire, England)
- HMS Armanillo Glenfinnart, Scotland Combined Operations RN Beach Commando training
- HMS Atlantic Isle, Tristan da Cunha during WWII [1]
- HMS Attack RN Dockyard, Portand Coastal Forces MLs and storage
- HMS Badger, Harwich - HQ of Flag Officer Harwich and Coastal Forces base 1939 - 1946
- HMS Beaver II Immingham Coastal Forces MLs
- HMS Bee Weymouth Coastal Forces MLs working up 1942-43
- HMS Bee Holyhead Coastal Forces MLs working up base 1943-1945
- HMS Beehive (Boomer Hall, Felixstowe, Suffolk) Coast Forces MTB & MGB
- HMS Bellerophon (Portsmouth, Hampshire, England)
- HMS Benbow (Trinidad)
- HMS Birnbeck - at Birnbeck Pier in Weston-super-Mare. Operated from 1941 to 1946 for secret weapons research and testing.[6]
- HMS Bluebird III Folkestone, England (HMS Allenby possibly formerly known as HMS Bluebird III)
- HMS Boscawen Portland, Dorset Naval Police Patrol HQ
- HMS Britannia III Dartmouth Coastal Forces Motor Torpedo Boat & Motor Gun Boat
- HMS Brontosaurus Castle Toward, Toward, Argyll, Scotland Combined Operations landing craft crew training (initially called HMS Ararat)
- HMS Cabbala, Warrington Training establishment for WRNS WT operators [7]
- HMS Caledonia (Rosyth, Fife, Scotland),
- HMS Cambridge (1956) (Wembury, Devon, England)
- HMS Caroline (1914) Belfast Coastal Forces MLs
- HMS Centurion (Gosport, Hampshire, England)
- HMS Centurion (Haslemere, Surrey, England)
- HMS Ceres (formerly HMS Demetrius) (Wetherby, Yorkshire, England)
- HMS Ceres (Leeds, Yorkshire)
- HMS Cicala Dartmouth Coastal Forces MTB & MGB
- HMS Claverhouse Leith Coastal Forces MLs
- HMS Cochrane Rosyth, Fife, Scotland (formerly RNAS Donibristle / HMS Merlin)
- HMS Copra - Combined Operations Pay, Ratings and Accounts, The Moorings, Largs [2]
- HMS Cricket (Hants), wartime Landing Craft Training Base on River Hamble,Hampshire
- HMS Dartmouth II Dartmouth Coastal Forces MTB MGB & ML
- HMS Defiance Torpedo school (Devonport, Devon, England)
- HMS Defiance Fleet Maintenance Base (Devonport)
- HMS Dinosaur I Troon, Ayrshire, Scotland HQ for tank landing craft training
- HMS Dinosaur II Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland landing craft and work-up base
- HMS Dorlin, Dorlin House, Acharacle, Argyll, Scotland Combined Operations RN Beach Signals and Royal Signals sections - battle training.
- HMS Dolphin (Gosport, Hampshire, England)
- HMS Dryad (Southwick, Hampshire, England) (former location of the Maritime Warfare School)
- HMS Dundonald I Gailes Camp, Auchengate, Troon, Ayrshire, Scotland holding and training base for RN Beach Commandos
- HMS Dundonald II Auchingate, Troon, Ayrshire, Scotland Combined Signal School (CSS)
- HMS Ferret, Londonderry, Northern Ireland Convoy escort base and anti-submarine training (later HMS Sea Eagle)
- HMS Fervent Ramsgate Coastal Forces MTB MGB & ML
- HMS Fisgard (1946) (HMS Fisgard) (Torpoint, Cornwall, England)
- HMS Flora III Invergordon Coastal Forces ML
- HMS Flycatcher, headquarters of Mobile Naval Air Bases during Second World War, Ludham then Middle Wallop
- HMS Foliot I Plymouth, England Landing craft accounting base
- HMS Foliot III Buckleigh, Plymouth, England Combined Operations holding base
- HMS Forte IV Falmouth Coastal Forces ML
- HMS Forward II Newhaven Coastal Forces MTB
- HMS Fox Lerwick Coastal Forces MTB & ML
- HMS Ganges (Shotley, Ipswich, Suffolk) Boys' Training Establishment
- HMS Glendower WWII training establishment at the Butlins Pwllheli holiday camp in Caernarfonshire.
- HMS Golden Hind Sydney, Australia. WW2 RN Barracks
- HMS Gunner Lerwick Shetland Auxiliary Patrol base
- HMS Haig Rye, England
- HMS Helder Brightlingsea, England landing craft training
- HMS Helicon (Loch Ewe, Scotland.) Scapa Flow diversionary anchorage, 1939-40. Arctic convoys concentration point 1942-44
- HMS Highflyer (Trincomalee, Ceylon)
- HMS Hornet (Gosport, Hampshire, England) Coastal Forces Depot MTB
- HMS Inskip (Inskip, Preston, Lancashire, England)
- HMS Jackdaw Crail Fife RNAS Crail
- HMS Jackdaw II Dunino Kingsbarn Fife Satellite airfield of Crail
- HMS James Cook Glen Caladh, Nr Tighnabruaich, Argyll, Scotland Combined Operations Beach Training Establishment
- HMS Jufair (Bahrain)
- HMS Kestrel World War II Royal Naval Air Station at Worthy Down, Hampshire[8]
- HMS King Alfred (shore establishment) (Hove, Sussex, England) Wartime initial training centre
- HMS Lanka (Colombo, Ceylon)
- HMS Lizard Shoreham, England Combined Operations landing craft base
- HMS Lochailort Inverailort Castle, Lochailort, Inverness-shire Scotland Combined Operations officer training
- HMS Lochinvar (Port Edgar, Fife, Scotland) Fleet Minesweeper base
- HMS Louisburg Roseneath, Dunbartonshire, Scotland Combined Operations also HMS Roseneath
- HMS Malabar (Bermuda)
- HMS Manatee Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, England Landing craft
- HMS Mastodon Exbury House, Southampton, England Landing craft
- HMS Mauritius (Mauritius)
- HMS Medina Puckpool, Ryde, Isle of Wight, England Landing craft and Fleet Air Arm
- HMS Mentor Lews Castle, Stornoway, Western Isles
- HMS Mercury (Petersfield, Hampshire, England) Communications school
- HMS Midge (Great Yarmouth)
- HMS Monck] Largs, Ayrshire, Scotland Combined Training HQ
- HMS Monck Port Glasgow, Scotland Combined Operations Carrier Training
- HMS Monck Roseneath, Dunbartonshire, Scotland
- HMS Monck Greenock, Scotland Greenock HQ Flag Officer
- HMS Mylodon Lowestoft, England
- HMS Newt Newhaven, England Landing craft base
- HMS Northney, HMS Northney I, HMS Northney II, HMS Northney III and HMS Northnney IV] Hayling Island, England landing craft training base
- HMS Osprey RN Dockyard, (Portland, Dorset, England) ASDIC training; Flag Officer Sea Training; RNAS Portland (Lynx helicopter)
- HMS Owl Fearn Ross-shire RNAS Fearn
- HMS Pasco Glenbranter Camp, Glenbranter, Strachur, Argyll, Scotland Combined Operations landing craft signals training
- HMS Pembroke (Chatham, Kent, England)
- HMS Phoenix (Tipner, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England)
- HMS President (parts later spun out as HMS St Vincent) (37 Queen's Gate Terrace, London SW7, England)
- HMS Prosperine Lyness, Orkney
- HMS Pyramus Kirkwall, Orkney
- HMS Quebec Inverary, Argyll, Scotland Combined Operations training
- HMS Robertson Kitchener Camp, Richborough, Kent, England Holding base for RM landing craft personnel
- HMS Rooke (Gibraltar)
- HMS Roseneath Roseneath, Dunbartonshire, Scotland Combined Operations also HMS Louisburg
- HMS Royal Arthur Butlins Skegness and (Corsham, Wiltshire, England) Petty Officers' training school [3]
- Royal Naval College, Greenwich (London SE10, England) Naval Staff College
- HMS St Angelo (Victoriosa, Malta GC)
- HMS St Christopher[9] Fort William, Inverness-shire Coastal Forces training base.
- HMS St George (Eastney, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England)
- HMS St Vincent (Gosport, Hampshire, England) Mine warfare training and HMS St Vincent (Whitehall, London) Communications centre
- HMS Salford (Manchester/Salford) RNR Communications Training Centre
- HMS Sanderling Abbotsinch Glasgow RNAS Abbotsinch
- HMS Scotia Butlin's holiday camp Ayr basic training 1942. From 1959 RNR Rosyth
- HMS Sea Eagle, (Eglinton, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland)
- HMS Sea Serpent Bracklesham Bay and Birdham, near Chichester, England
- HMS Seahawk Ardrishaig, Argyll Coastal Forces training base
- HMS Sheba (Aden)
- HMS Spartiate St Enoch's Hotel Glasgow Western Approaches Command, Clyde
- HMS Squid Southampton, England tank landing craft repair base
- HMS Squid II Westcliff Hall Hotel, Hythe, England landing craft squadron staff
- HMS Standard Kielder, Northumberland WWII training establishment for men who would otherwise be discharged. [10]
- HMS Stopford Bo'ness, Scotland landing craft working-up base
- HMS Tamar (Hong Kong) operated from 1897 to 1997 at two locations
- HMS Tarlair Hawkcraig near Aberdour - hydrophone training school during World War I
- HMS Tern Twatt Orkney RNAS Twatt
- HMS Terror (Singapore)
- HMS Thunderer, Keyham and Manadon, Plymouth, Devon. Royal Naval Engineering College
- HMS Tormentor Hamble, Southampton, England landing craft operational base
- HMS Tormentor II Cowes, Isle of Wight, England training camp.
- HMS Tullichewan Tullichewan Castle Camp, Balloch, Loch Lomond, Scotland Holding base for Combined Operations [4] (previously HMS Spartiate II)
- HMS Turtle Poole, Dorset, England Combined Operations training
- HMS Uva (Diyatalawa, Ceylon)
- HMS Valkerie II Isle of Man Training establishment for HO ratings[11]
- HMS Varbel Port Bannatyne Hydropathic Hotel Port Bannatyne Isle of Bute X class submarine training
- HMS Varbell II Ardtaraig House Loch Striven Argyll X class submarine advanced training
- HMS Vectis Seaview, Isle of Wight, England Landing craft
- HMS Vernon (Portsmouth, Hampshire, England)
- HMS Wagtail Ayr RNAS Ayr
- HMS Warren Largs, Ayrshire, Scotland Combined Operations senior officer training
- HMS Wasp Dover Coastal Forces
- HMS Westcliffe Southend, England Flotilla training
- HMS Westcliffe II Combined Operations holding base for RM landing craft personnel
- HMS Westcliffe II Burnham on Crouch, England Landing craft base
- HMS Wildfire (shore establishment 1964) (Chatham, Kent, England)
- HMS Wildfire II Combined Operations base
- HMS Wildfire III Sheerness, England Combined Operations base
- HMS Woolvestone Ipswich, England landing craft base
- RNAD Broughton Moor, Cumbria, England armaments depot
- RNAD Crombie
- RNAD Dean Hill
- RNAD Gosport including Priddy's Hard
- RNSD Eaglescliffe, Teesside England Naval Stores Depot
RNAY Wroughton, Wroughton, Swindon. [edit] See also -
[edit] References - ^ Defence Fuels Group
- ^ Coastal Forces Shore establishments
- ^ Combined Operations Training Establishments
- ^ Shield of Empire - The Royal Navy and Scotland, Brian Lavery, Birlinn 2007 ISBN 9781841585130
- ^ Hampshire and D-Day. Martin Doughty. ISBN 1-85741-047-5
- ^ "Birnbeck Island Pier - A short history". Friends of the Old Pier Society. http://www.birnbeckpier.org/birnbeck_pier_history.php. Retrieved 2007-06-06.
- ^ Signal!: A History of Signalling in the Royal Navy, Barrie H. Kent, Permanent Publications, 2004, ISBN 1856230252, 9781856230254
- ^ Hampshire Railways Remembered. Kevin Robertson & Leslie Oppitz. 1988. ISBN 0 905392 93 0. p97
- ^ HMS St Christopher
- ^ Hostilities Only - Training the Wartime Royal Navy, Brian Lavery, National Maritime Museum, 2004, ISBN 0948065486
- ^ Signal!: A History of Signalling in the Royal Navy, Barrie H. Kent, Permanent Publications, 2004, ISBN 1856230252, 9781856230254
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