British Home Fleet

British Home Fleet

Home Fleet

La Home Fleet est le nom traditionnel de la flotte de la Royal Navy, protégeant les eaux territoriales du Royaume-Uni. Elle fut renommée Grand Fleet à l'ouverture des hostilités, le 4 août 1914 et garda ce nom jusqu'à la mutinerie de Invergordon en 1932, où elle retrouva sa désignation traditionnelle.

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Origines

La Grand Fleet

Considérablement renforcée à l'approche des hostilités, pour faire face à la Hochseeflotte allemande, elle était basée à Scapa Flow dans les îles Orcades en Écosse.

Elle comprenait en 1916 :

  • 1st Battle Squadron
    • 6th Division (vice-amiral Burney)
    • 5th Division (contre amiral Gaunt)
  • 2nd Battle Squadron
    • 1st Division (vice-amiral Jerram)
    • 2nd Division (contre amiral Leveson)
  • 4th Battle Squadron
  • 3rd Battlecruiser Squadon (contre amiral Hood)
  • 1st Cruiser Squadron (contre amiral Arbuthnot)
  • 2nd Cruiser Squadron (contre amiral Heath)
  • 4th Light Cruiser Squadron (Commodore Le Mesurier)
  • 4th Destroyer Flotilla (Captain Wintour)
  • 11th Destroyer Flotilla (Commodore Hawksley)
  • 12th Destroyer Flotilla (Captain Stirling)

lui était rattachée The Battlecruiser Fleet

  • 1st Battlecruiser Squadron (vice-amiral David Beatty)
  • 2nd Battlecruiser Squadron (contre amiral Pakenham)
  • 5th Battle Squadron (contre amiral Evan-Thomas)
  • 1st Light Cruiser Squadron (Commodore Alexander-Sinclair)
  • 2nd Light Cruiser Squadron (Commodore Goodenough)
  • 3rd Light Cruiser Squadron (contre amiral Napier)
  • 1st Destroyer Flotilla (Captain Roper)
  • 9th and 10th Destroyer Flotillas (combined) (Commander Goldsmith)
  • 13th Destroyer Flotilla (Captain Farie)

La Home Fleet pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale

Son rôle principal tout le long de la guerre, fut d'empêcher les navires allemands d'effectuer des sorties vers l'Atlantique. En 1944, après la destruction du cuirassé allemand Tirpitz, la plupart de ses unités furent transférées dans le Pacifique, pour former la British Pacific Fleet qui appuya les États-Unis contre le Japon.

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