The Cape of Good Hope Station is an operational command of the Royal Navy and one of the geographical divisions in which the Royal Navy divides responsibilities worldwide. It is officially the unit and agency responsible to Supreme Commander, Good Hope Cape. stations operate from 1795 to 1939.
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History
From 1750 until 1779 the Cape of Good Hope became strategically important because of the increasing competition between France and Great Britain to control the oceans. In 1780 the Dutch joined the American Revolutionary War in communion with France and Spain against Great Britain; The British government is aware of its consequences if the Cape of Good Hope falls and its impact on trade relations with India and makes plans to capture the Cape and avoid its use by the enemy. The first attempt was subject to prolonged delays and the fact that the French were able to strengthen their defenses allowed them to successfully defend it from the British attack. From 1781 to 1791 various attempts were made to capture the station: all failed and remained under French and French control and disrupted the trading charge of East India Company ships traveling between Asia and Europe. In 1792 hostilities temporarily ceased and in 1793 the East India Company Board of Directors expressed their concern about the cloak held by the French. The British government and Admiralty decided to act and recapture it in 1795: the first naval base was set up at Table Bay.
In 1802, the British government agreed to restore Cape to Dutch control but this was not resolved until 1803 and lasted until 1806 when the new British Administration under William Pitt annulled the agreement between the two countries and re-took the robe once again in 1807 effective from the point this remains under British control. In 1811 the Royal Navy decided to move from its current base to a new base in Simon's Town bay; However the initial facility took about three years to complete and was not ready until 1814. From 1815 to 1849 this base was mainly used for reassembling and repair work on ships and acting as a port of call for a marine surveyor mapping the area. During the 1850s and 1860s improvements were made to the shipyard facility with some rebuilt to accommodate larger vessels. On 17 January 1865, it was merged with the East Indies Station to form East Indies and Cape of Good Hope Station ; However, the station was reinvented as a separate station on 29 July 1867. From 1870, it absorbed the former West African squadron. At the beginning of the Second Boer War in 1899, there was a long period of relative peace; the station became the main base of the British Armed Forces who descended and started during the war and for supplies and equipment sent from the UK during the conflict.
In 1910, the new East Dock was built along with a dry dock facility that proved right at the outbreak of the First World War. From 1914 to 1919 its main task was to seek and destroy the German invader trade forces. During the interwar period it continued the work of maintaining and repairing ships stationed there and those traveling on the way to Asia. In 1939, at the beginning of the Second World War, the base played a major early role in the Battle of the Atlantic, and the hunt for the German Admiral Graf Spee warship, which led to the Battle of the River Plate. After the conclusion of the engagement the station ceased as a command operation center with senior naval staff moving to a newly established South Atlantic station headquartered in Freetown. The naval base remained as part of the command until 1957. In 1958 the British government handed the facility to the South African Navy.
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Commander-in-Chief
The leader of the commander is:
Commander-in-Chief, Good Cape of Good Station
- Vice Admiral George Keith Elphinstone, (1795-96)
- Rear Admiral Thomas Pringle, (1796-98)
- Rear Admiral Sir Hugh Cloberry Christian, (1798)
- Vice Admiral Sir Roger Curtis, (1799-03)
Note: from 1803-06 a Dutch colony
- Commodore Sir Home Riggs Popham, (1806-07)
- Rear Admiral Charles Stirling, (1807-08)
- Commodore Josias Rowley, (1808)
- Vice Admiral Sir Albemarle Bertie, (1808-10)
- Rear Admiral Hon. Robert Stopford, (1810-12)
- Rear Admiral Charles Tyler, (1812-14)
- Rear Admiral George Cockburn, (1815-16)
- Rear Admiral Robert Plampin, (1816-20)
- Rear Admiral Robert Lambert, (1820-21)
- Commodore James Lillicrap, (1821-22)
- Commodore Joseph Nourse, (1822-24)
- Commodore Robert Moorsom, (1825)
- Commodore Hood Hanway Christian, (1825-27)
- Commodore William Skipsey, (1827-28)
- Commodore Charles Schomberg, (1828-31)
- Rear Admiral Frederick Warren, (1831-34)
- Rear Admiral Patrick Campbell, (1834-37)
- Rear Admiral Hon. George Elliot, (1837-40)
- Rear Admiral Sir Edward Durnford King, (1840-41)
- Rear Admiral Hon. Josceline Percy, (1841-46)
- Rear Admiral James Dacres, (1846)
- Rear Admiral Barrington Reynolds, (1848-52)
Catatan: Incomplete daftar komandan 1853-1857
Komandan-in-Chief, Tanjung Harapan Station Baik dan Afrika West Station
- Laksamana Muda Sir Frederick Gray (1857-1860)
- Laksamana Muda Sir Henry Keppel (1860)
- Laksamana Muda Baldwin Walker (1861-1865)
Komandan-in-Chief, Timur Hindia & amp; Stasiun Tanjung Harapan Baik
- Commodore Frederick Montresor (1865)
- Commodore Charles Hillyar (1865-1867)
Komandan-in-Chief, Tanjung Harapan Station Baik dan Stasiun Afrika Barat
- Commodore Sir William Dowell (1867-1871)
- Commodore Sir John Commerell (1871-1873)
- Commodore Sir William Hewett (1873-1876)
- Commodore Sir Francis Sullivan (1876-1879)
- Commodore Sir Frederick Richards (1879-1882)
- Laksamana Muda Sir Nowell Salmon (1882-1885)
- Laksamana Sir Walter Hunt-Grubbe (1885-1888)
- Laksamana Muda Sir Richard Wells (1888-1890)
- Laksamana Muda Sir Henry Nicholson (1890-1892)
- Laksamana Muda Sir Frederick Bedford (1892-1895)
- Laksamana Muda Sir Harry Rawson (1895-1898)
- Laksamana Muda Sir Robert Harris (1898-1900)
- Laksamana Muda Sir Arthur Moore (1901-1903)
- Laksamana Sir John Durnford (1904-1907)
- Laksamana Muda Sir Edmund PoÃÆ' «(1907-1908)
- Laksamana Muda Tuan George Egerton (1908-1910)
- Laksamana Muda Sir Paul Bush (1910-1913)
- Wakil Laksamana Sir Herbert King-Hall (1913-1916)
- Wakil Laksamana Sir Edward Charlton (1916-1918)
- Wakil Laksamana Sir Edward Fitzherbert (1918-1920)
Panglima Tertinggi, Stasiun Afrika
- Wakil Laksamana Sir William Goodenough (1920-1922)
- Wakil Laksamana Sir Rudolph Bentinck (1922-1924)
- Wakil Laksamana Sir Maurice Fitzmaurice (1924-1926)
- Wakil Laksamana Sir David Anderson (1926-1929)
- Wakil Laksamana Sir Rudolf Burmester (1929-1931)
- Wakil Laksamana Sir Hugh Tweedie (1931-1933)
- Wakil Laksamana Sir Edward Evans (1933-1935)
- Wakil Laksamana Sir Francis Tottenham (1935-1938)
- Wakil Laksamana Sir George Lyon (1938-1939)
Note: The order was transferred to Commander-in-Chief, South Atlantic Station in 1939.
Source
- Marshall, John (1827). Royal Naval Biographic Supplements: Or, Memoirs of Service All Flag Officers, Rear-Supard Men, Retired Captains, Captain's Forces, and Commanders . Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-108-02272-9 . Retrieved 2016-11-19 .
- Miller, Nathan. Broadsides: The Age of Fighting Sail, 1775-1815 . New York: John Wiley & amp; Sons, Inc. 2000.
- Rodger, N.A.M. The Command of the Ocean: A History of the British Navy, 1649-1815 . New York and London: W.W. Norton and Company, 2004.
See also
- List of fleets and main command of the Royal Navy
References
External links
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