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Second Fleet (United Kingdom)

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History
Commanders
Components
Footnotes
Bibliography
External links

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The Second 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 Third Division of the Home Fleet, its ships were manned by a nucleus crew during peacetime, but were intended to be manned by men from the naval schools when mobilised.^[1] It reported directly to the Commander-in-Chief, Home Fleets. The fleet was mobilised in late July 1914 as tensions increased between Great Britain and Imperial Germany and remained on active duty until war was declared on 4 August.^[2] It reformed the Channel Fleet upon the declaration of war and consisted of the Fifth and Sixth Battle Squadrons, equipped with a total of 15 pre-dreadnought battleships and the majority of the Home Defence Patrol Flotillas.^[3]

Commanders

Rank	Flag	Name	Term
Vice-Admiral Commanding Second Fleet ^[4]
1	Vice-Admiral	Sir Frederick T. Hamilton	May 1912-December 1913
2	Vice-Admiral	Sir Cecil Burney	December 1913-August 1914

Components

Included ^[5]

Unit	Notes
1	5th Battle Squadron	(8 battleships) ^[6]
2	6th Battle Squadron	(5-7 battleships) ^[7]
3	5th Cruiser Squadron	(3-4 light cruisers) ^[8]
4	6th Cruiser Squadron	3-4 armoured cruisers) ^[9]
5	7th Destroyer Flotilla	20 destroyer-12 torpedo boat) ^[10]

Footnotes

1. ^Wragg, p. 24
2. ^Marder, p. 432
3. ^Corbett, p. 12
4. ^{{cite book|last1=Government|first1=H.M.|title=The Navy List|date=October 1913|publisher=H.M. Stationery Office|page=87|chapter=Flag Officers - Vice Admirals}}
5. ^{{cite web|last1=Harley|first1=Simon|last2=Lovell|first2=Tony|title=Second Fleet (Royal Navy) - The Dreadnought Project|url=http://www.dreadnoughtproject.org/tfs/index.php/Second_Fleet_(Royal_Navy)|website=www.dreadnoughtproject.org|publisher=Harley and Lovell, 25 May 2014|accessdate=2 August 2017|language=en}}
6. ^Harley and Lovell. 2014
7. ^Harley and Lovell. 2014
8. ^Harley and Lovell. 2014
9. ^Harley and Lovell. 2014
10. ^Harley and Lovell. 2014

Bibliography

{{cite book|last=Corbett|first=Julian|authorlink=Julian Corbett|title=Naval Operations to the Battle of the Falklands|edition=2nd, reprint of the 1938|series=History of the Great War: Based on Official Documents|volume=I|publisher=Imperial War Museum and Battery Press|location=London and Nashville, Tennessee|isbn=0-89839-256-X}}
{{cite book|last=Marder|first=Arthur J.|authorlink=Arthur Marder|title=From Dreadnought to Scapa Flow: The Royal Navy in the Fisher Era|volume=I: The Road to War 1904–1914|date=2013 |origyear=1961|publisher=Naval Institute Press|location=Annapolis, Maryland|isbn=9781-59114-259-1}}
{{cite book|last=Wragg|first=David|title=Royal Navy Handbook 1914–1918|year=2006|publisher=Sutton Publishing|location=Stroud, UK|isbn=0-7509-4203-7}}

External links

{{DP-xlink|http://dreadnoughtproject.org/tfs/index.php/Second_Fleet_(Royal_Navy)}}

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