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	Military History Online
		The decision by the British Government in August 1941 to send military supplies to her new ally, via the North Russian ports of Murmansk and Archangel, was as much for reasons of politics and morale boosting as to provide any really significant military assistance.
		Once again, British knowledge of the Enigma codes gave warning of enemy intentions, and Admiral Sir John Tovey, with heavy units of the Home Fleet, including battleships King George V and Duke of York, together with the battlecruiser Renown and aircraft carrier Victorious sailed from Scapa Flow to intercept.
		Acting as distant support to the convoy was a detachment of the Home Fleet under Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser, consisting of the battleship "Duke of York", the cruiser Jamaica and four destroyers, whilst in a covering role Admiral Burnett had the 6" gun cruisers Belfast, Sheffield and the 8" Norfolk.
	www.militaryhistoryonline.com /wwii/atlantic/arctic.aspx (3033 words)

	First World War.com - Encyclopedia - The Grand Fleet
		At the height of the July Crisis the commander of the core of Britain's Royal Navy - the vast Home Fleet - Sir George Callaghan, was instructed to move the fleet to its wartime port at Scapa Flow in the Orkneys.
		Given the enormous importance and prestige of the Grand Fleet its wartime commanders, Jellicoe and Admiral Sir David Beatty, proved reluctant to risk it in battle especially given the ever-present German U-boat threat, aside from the inconclusive Battle of Jutland of 31 May/1 June 1916 which was overseen by Jellicoe.
		Jutland saw Germany inflict greater damage upon the British fleet; however royal fright at the risks run during the encounter led the Kaiser to forbid a repeat performance, leading to something of a wide strategic victory for the British.
	www.firstworldwar.com /atoz/grandfleet.htm (536 words)

	CBC - the fifth estate - The Big Break - The Ghost Fleet
		British environmentalists claimed that Able UK was not equipped to dispose safely of the ships' toxic contents.
		The Ghost Fleet remains moored in the waters of the James River.
		A few ships of the fleet that are dismantled every year at American ship breaking yards, but at the same time, its ranks swell as more ships are de-commissioned and join the fleet.
	www.cbc.ca /fifth/bigbreak/fleet.html (632 words)

	A writing experiment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Now it is quite possible that the two fleets and the convoy would simply sail past one another with no contact, but the presence of the two fleets and a huge, valuable convoy could set up a major naval battle over the convoy.
		The Spanish fleet is reluctant to let the convoy get away, and the British fleet finds it difficult to disengage because doing so would leave the convoy to its fate.
		British General Cornwallis loses about a fourth of his army, and is ordered to go over to the defensive shortly after winning a smashing victory over the Americans at Camden so that the British can go on the offensive in West Florida, where Spain has recently taken some British posts.
	members.aol.com /althist1/Oct03/amrev.htm (4380 words)

	The American Revolution (John Bull and Uncle Sam)
		By 1776, the British were committed to the view that Parliament must exercise unchallenged authority in all parts of the empire, including the power to tax Americans without their consent.
		British troops, sent to confiscate American arms and supplies, were resisted by Massachusetts militiamen at Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775.
		The French fleet, whose command of the seas was decisive, is depicted as being anchored in the York River.
	www.loc.gov /exhibits/british/brit-2.html (1994 words)

	Submarine, HMS, Seahorse, Undine, Starfish, Thistle, Tarpon, Sterlet, United, Undaunted, Unbroken
		The figures for merchant ship sinkings by British submarines are not complete but give some idea of their successes.
		British submarine operations in the Heligoland Bight were abandoned.
		Home Fleet submarines were on patrol off the Norwegian Lofoten Islands and northern Norway.
	www.naval-history.net /WW2CampaignsBritishSubs.htm (2917 words)

	Fleet Home
		It comprised the main battle squadrons and the fleet carriers, and its chief responsibility was to keep the German Navy from breaking out of the North Sea.
		The First Fleet is the name given to the group of people and ships who sailed from England in May 1787 to establish the first European colony in New South Wales.
		The fleet was led by Captain (later Admiral) Arthur Phillip.
	www.artistbooking.com /trips/61/fleet-home.html (527 words)

	Outpost in the North Atlantic: Marines in the Defense of Iceland
		The British desired that the brigade be placed under their direct command because they had the major force and its commander was senior to General Marston.
		However, the planning board judged that as long as the British Home Fleet maintained superiority in the seas north of Scotland and areas east of Iceland, the Germans would be unable to support any sizable or prolonged offensive against the Iceland base.
		The British were a happy influence on the Marines who picked up much of their Allies' amusing vernacular, traditional Army songs, and ability to find simple pleasures on foreign duty.
	www.nps.gov /wapa/indepth/extContent/usmc/pcn-190-003118-00/sec1b.htm (1500 words)

	Axis and Allies in 4/00 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		The British home fleet was sunk (battleship and transport).
		The British sub force in the East Med was swept away and the Axis landing force took Syria.
		A new transport fleet was launched in Italy, and new infantry was raised in Germany and Italy.
	members.aol.com /TFGrantel/axandal2.html (898 words)

	Norway, Narvik Battle, Hunter, Scharnhorst, Blucher, Gurkha, Karlsruhe, Trondheim, Oslo, Arctic, Russian, Convoys, ...
		A Home Fleet cruiser force was detached to attack the German warships in Bergen, but ordered to withdraw.
		By the 10th, the British Home Fleet was reinforced by battleship “Warspite” and carrier “Furious”.
		British Home Fleet submarines carried out patrols off the coast of southwest Norway, but with heavy losses in July.
	www.naval-history.net /WW2CampaignsNorway.htm (3612 words)

	Avalanche Press
		The British Home Fleet tried to stop her, but Bismarck’s guns ripped apart the battle cruiser Hood.
		The British Home Fleet relentlessly tracked the German warship, and she finally sank beneath a hail of gunfire.
		The German player is trying to sneak past the British picket lines, and then seek out and destroy the vital convoys that bring troops, food and supplies from the rest of the world to Britain.
	www.avalanchepress.com /gameBismarck.php (577 words)

	The Australian Aborigines
		On January 18, 1788 a British fleet of 12 ships landed at Botany bay on the eastern coast of Australia, the purpose of the expedition was to start a colony which would double as a prison for Britain's worst criminal offenders.
		The British were the one's who first placed a permanent non-indigenous settlement on Australia.
		There was trouble between the Aborigines and the British from the beginning when the the Aborigines local to Botany bay complained because the the British were cutting down all the trees.
	members.tripod.com /siekman/british.html (274 words)

	Great White Fleet in Auckland New Zealand
		The fleet left US territory - Hawaii - for New Zealand and after the longest leg in the world circling voyage anchored in Auckland on August 9.
		The reduction of the British fleet in the Pacific greatly enhanced this concern.
		Despite this British lean, the US fleet was seen in New Zealand as a welcome counterbalance to Japan.
	www.100megsfree3.com /glaw/gwf (965 words)

	British Studies - Courses in Great Britain - Cameron University
		British journalists offer the class personal tours of important national newspapers (the staid Times, the racy Sun), expert lecturers delve into the history of Fleet Street on a walking tour, and public relations professionals explain why PR in London really is different.
		A series of lectures by British experts in London and a number of exciting field trips provide the student with an opportunity to develop an overall appreciation of British culture and society.
		We'll go to Fleet Street where Sondheim's Sweeney Todd is set, scrutinize video archives at the British Theatre Museum, and explore the "Fringe" where cutting-edge artists earn their reputations.
	www.cameron.edu /britishstudies/courses (2643 words)

	Expansion of the British fleet (March 1913) - Biografie Willy Brandt
		Expansion of the British fleet (March 1913) - Biografie Willy Brandt
		On 28 March 1913, the lower house of the British Parliament votes for an extensive expansion of the British fleet.
		In the following two years the „Home Fleet“ is expected to increase by five battle ships, eight cruisers, and 16 torpedo boats.
	www.bwbs.de /bwbs_biografie/Expansion_of_the_British_fleet_B647.html (68 words)

	Ahoy - Mac's Web Log-The Scuttling of the German High Seas Fleet at Scapa Flow on the 21st of June 1919-
		Most of the German High Seas Fleet was to survive WW1 intact, under the Peace Plan, this fleet was sailed into internment at the British Home Fleet Base at Scapa Flow.
		Germany had thought that a neutral port should have been used, as their Fleet was not defeated in battle, but they were inored before and after the internment.
		Within the German Fleet, it was expected that just as soon as the Armistice was over, and the Peace Treaty signed, the British would quickly move to seize all their ships, and no one, especially the German Admiral, were at all enamoured at this bleak prospect.
	www.ahoy.tk-jk.net /macslog/TheScuttlingoftheGermanHi.html (1412 words)

	TIME.com: Bullying & Bluffing -- Sep. 30, 1935 -- Page 1
		Fleet movements as they occurred were not reported in British papers, by request of the Admiralty.
		Alien news services were encouraged to transmit via London every fact they could glean about the sudden, sensational and unannounced dispatching of the British Home Fleet, which was scheduled last week to be maneuvering off Scotland, to join the British Mediterranean Fleet.
		In strict technicality the Admiralty's knowledge of exactly where the Home Fleet might be was locked in the resolute bosom of the fleet's immediate commander aboard the 33,500-ton battleship Nelson, Admiral Sir Roger Roland Charles Backhouse (pronounced back-house).
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,749124,00.html (480 words)

	Foray into Scapa Flow (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Unbeknownst to Prien and his crew, the British Home Fleet had sortied into the North Sea and most of the big ships had left Scapa Flow by October 13, the day designated for the attack.
		As intended, the British got wind of the sortie and believing Gneisenau was headed for the North Atlantic, Admiral Forbes ordered the Home Fleet to intercept her.
		The British fearing that this was prelude to a bomber attack, decided to keep the base empty for a while.
	www.uboataces.com /battle-scapa-flow5.shtml (1332 words)

	DD-520 Isherwood
		She then sailed for a cruise with the 6th Fleet in the Mediterranean, departing 22 April 1952, and, for the next 6 months, visited various ports supporting the important peace-keeping operations of the fleet.
		Isherwood made another 6th Fleet cruise 22 April-26 October 1953, after which she took part in maneuvers and plane guard duty off the East Coast.
		The ship returned to her home port 7 December 1958, and spent the first 6 months of 1959 on maneuvers and training exercises.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/agency/navy/dd-520.htm (1149 words)

	DD-550 Capps
		She arrived 17 September for exercises with the British Home Fleet.
		Thus augmented, the Home Fleet, with Capps in company, swept into northern waters from 29 October to 8 November to guard the movement of a convoy for Murmansk, and to hunt for German battleships Von Tirpitz and Scharnhorst..
		She continued her activities with the 3d Fleet until the close of the year, when she reported for a month of duty on radar picket station, in air sea rescue.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/agency/navy/dd-550.htm (739 words)

	The Great White Fleet in Australia & NZ
		During that time some of the fleet went to Seattle, then rejoined the rest in San Francisco, and on 7 July 1908, the fleet composition changed and they headed to Hawaii.
		The fleet arrived in Virginia on 22 February 1909.
		The fleet arrived at Melbourne on August 29th and remained until September 5th when most of the fleet left for Albany.
	www.diggerhistory.info /pages-conflicts-periods/other/gw-fleet.htm (314 words)

	USS Emmons
		Thus, as anxious as the situation was, nothing happened except that on the homeward bound trip the three British DDs were detached and, acting under superb intelligence from the Admiralty in London, attacked and sank the German mine layer Ulm enroute to lay mines in the ice-free passages off Nova Zemlya.
		At that time the British were especially concerned that the German fleet led by Tirpitz might break out into the North Atlantic convoy lanes.
		On 22 June under orders of C-in-C Home Fleet, EMMONS was ordered to proceed to Invergordon to embark a party of officials including Admiral Stark, Commander US Naval Forces in Europe, and the First Lord of the Admiralty, A Alexander.
	www.geocities.com /bristolclass/emmonshist.html (4353 words)

	Charter Yacht Society of the BVI: Belline
		We place high priority on our friendly "feel at home" atmosphere and encourage our guests to discover the islands and to personally meet their inhabitants.
		We offer our guests the opportunity to leave stress and concrete civilization behind to enjoy the vacation of a lifetime on the beautifully decorated and fully equipped BELLINE II She is outfitted for luxury and welcomes you with all the comforts of home in fast and stable cruising style.
		The highlight of this was in March of 2001 when the Food Network had a special report about the "Treasures of the Caribbean" and came to film Léla in her element.
	www.bvicrewedyachts.com /fleet/fleetpages/belline.htm (309 words)

	Best WWII Battleship - Page 3 - World Affairs Board
		Tirpitz's "fleet in being" assets are really over rated, the main reason that Britain arrayed so many BB's against her is simply because she could.
		The Germans built their surface navy knowing that for the foreseeable future, they had to go with a "fleet in being." I think even the abortive Z Plan for a much bigger fleet was still made with that "fleet in being" strategy in mind.
		Oh I won't deny the British would have liked more flexibility in reguards to battleship deployment but in war one has to make due with available assets and the home front certainly was the most important theatre.
	www.worldaffairsboard.com /showthread.php?p=316472 (2257 words)

	Rethinking Churchill, Part 2
		On the afternoon of July 28, three days before the German invasion of Belgium, he mobilized the British Home Fleet, the greatest assemblage of naval power in the history of the world to that time.
		The fleet was to proceed during the night at high speed and without lights through the Straits of Dover from Portland to its fighting base at Scapa Flow.
		The time is long past when it was possible to see the protracted debate over British foreign policy in the 1930s as a struggle between Churchill, an angel of light, fighting against the velleities of uncomprehending and feeble men in high places.
	www.lewrockwell.com /orig/raico-churchill2.html (1778 words)

	USS WASP CV 7
		That force was to reinforcethe Home Fleet of the Royal Navy.
		Her screenconsisted of Force "W" of the Home Fleet- a group that included the battle cruiser HMS Renown and antiaircraft cruisers HMS Cairo and HMSChariVdis.
		This time,the British aircraft carrier HMS liagle accompanied Wasp; and she, too,carried a contingent of Spitfires bound for the "unsinkable aircraftcarrier," Malta.
	www.multied.com /Navy/Cv7Wasp.html (5948 words)

	The Scapa Flow Mission (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
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		The first called for a U-boat attack within the base itself, which if successful, would force the British Home Fleet to flee the base to relocate to safer harbors.
		It was to maintain absolute radio silence, penetrate the British base with explosives already rigged and ready to scuttle at moments notice; to prevent capture of the U-boat or its equipment.
	www.uboataces.com /battle-scapa-flow4.shtml (847 words)

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