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This is a 'list of shore establishments (or "stone frigates") of the Royal Navy'.

Contents

Current Royal Navy Shore Establishments

Air stations

Naval bases

Testing establishments

Training establishments

Other

''De facto'' shore establishments

Current Royal Naval Reserve units and establishments

Training establishments

Other

Former Shore Establishments

See also

References

Current Royal Navy Shore Establishments

Air stations

★ RNAS Culdrose (HMS ''Seahawk'')

★ RNAS Yeovilton (HMS ''Heron'')

Naval bases

★ HMS Drake (HMNB Devonport, Devonport, Devon, England)

★ HMS Nelson (HMNB Portsmouth, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England)

★ HMS Neptune (HMNB Clyde, Faslane, Helensburgh, Scotland)

Testing establishments

★ Vulcan NRTE (Naval Reactor Test Establishment) (HMS Vulcan) Dounreay, Thurso, Caithness, Scotland. (See Dounreay)

Training establishments

★ HMS Collingwood (establishment) (Fareham, Hampshire, England)

★ HMS Dartmouth (Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, Devon, England)

★ HMS Dryad

★ HMS Excellent (Whale Island, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England)

★ HMS Raleigh (Torpoint, Cornwall, England)

★ HMS Sultan (Gosport, Hampshire, England)

★ HMS Temeraire

Other

★ HMS ''Caledonia'', Rosyth, Fife, Scotland

★ HMS Saker (the collective title for United States based Royal Navy personnel)

★ HMS Rooke (Gibraltar) (Whilst there are RN personnel stationed at many locations outside the UK, ''Rooke'' is one of very few specifically Royal Navy shore establishments left outside the UK).

★ HMS Temeraire (Portsmouth, Hampshire)

★ JSU Northwood, ex-HMS ''Warrior'' (Northwood, Middlesex, England)

''De facto'' shore establishments

★ Mount Pleasant Airfield in the Falkland Islands which is a tri-service service establishment, albeit with RN personnel making up few of the personnel stationed there on a permanent basis, the majority being Army and RAF.

★ Sembawang dockyard in the former HMNB Singapore still has RN personnel based in a building which is in what is now a civilian dockyard - however, there is an RN onshore presence by virtue of a hangover from when British Forces withdrew from Singapore and east of Suez in general, the fuelling arrangements for warships that dock in Singapore in the Sembawang dockyard are all fuelled by the RN - all Five Powers Defence Arrangements and US Navy ships use this dockyard in Singapore, although the Republic of Singapore Navy does not.

Current Royal Naval Reserve units and establishments

Training establishments

★ HMS ''Calliope'', Gateshead, Tyne & Wear, England

Other

★ HMS ''Cambria'', Cardiff, Wales

★ HMS ''Dalriada'', Glasgow, 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

★ HMS ''Scotia'', Rosyth, Fife, Scotland (Within the grounds of HMS Caledonia)

★ HMS ''Sherwood'', Nottingham, England

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★ Ceres Division (satellite unit of HMS ''Sherwood''), Leeds, England

★ HMS ''Vivid'', Mount Wise, Plymouth, Devon, England

★ HMS ''Wildfire'', Northwood, Middlesex, England

Former Shore Establishments

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★ HMS Afrikander (Simonstown, South Africa)

★ HMS Aggressive Newhaven Coast Forces MLs

★ HMS Allenby Folkestone, England Combined Operations base

★ HMS Ambrose Dundee Scotland

★ 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) (Worthy Down, Winchester, Hampshire, England)

★ [HMS Armanillo] Glenfinnart, Scotland Combined Operations RN Beach Commando training

★ HMS Attack Portand Coastal Forces MLs

★ 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.^[3]

★ HMS Bluebird III Folkestone, England (HMS Allenby possibly formerly known as HMS Bluebird III)

★ HMS Britannia III Dartmouth Coastal Forces MTB & MGB

★ HMS Brontosaurus Castle Toward, Toward, Argyll, Scotland Combined Operations landing craft crew training

★ HMS Caledonia (Rosyth, Fife, Scotland),

★ HMS Cambridge (Wembury, Devon, England)

★ HMS Caroline Belfast Coastal Forces MLs

★ HMS Centurion (Gosport, Hampshire, England)

★ HMS Centurion (Haslemere, Surrey, England)

★ HMS Ceres (formerly HMS Demetrius) (Wetherby, Yorkshire, England)

★ HMS Cicala Dartmouth Coastal Forces MTB & MGB

★ HMS Claverhouse Leith Coastal Forces MLs

★ HMS Cochrane (Rosyth, Fife, Scotland)

★ HMS Dartmouth II Dartmouth Coastal Forces MTB MGB & ML

★ HMS Defiance (Devonport, Devon, England)

★ 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)

★ 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 Fervent Ramsgate Coastal Forces MTB MGB & ML

★ HMS Fisgard (Torpoint, Cornwall, England)

★ HMS Flora III Invergordon Coastal Forces ML

★ 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)

★ HMS Haig Rye, England

★ HMS Helder Brightlingsea, England landing craft training

★ HMS Hornet (Gosport, Hampshire, England) Coastal Forces Depot MTB

★ HMS Inskip (Inskip, Preston, Lancashire, England)

★ HMS James Cook Glen Caladh, Nr Tighnabruaich, Argyll, Scotland Combined Operations Beach Training Establishment

★ HMS Jufair (Bahrain)

★ HMS King Alfred (Hove, Sussex, England)

★ 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)

★ 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)

★ 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 (Portland, Dorset, England)

★ 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 (later 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 Holdimng base for RM landing craft personnel

★ HMS Roseneath Roseneath, Dunbartonshire, Scotland Combined Operations also HMS Louisburg

★ HMS Royal Arthur (Corsham, Wiltshire, England)

★ Royal Naval College Greenwich (London SE10, England)

★ HMS St Angelo (Victoriosa, Malta GC)

★ HMS St Christopher Fort William, Inverness-shire Coastal Forces training base.

★ HMS St George (Eastney, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England)

★ HMS St Vincent (Gosport, Hampshire, England)

★ 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 Squid Southampton, England tank landing craft repair base

★ HMS Squid II Westcliff Hall Hotel, Hythe, England landing craft squadron staff

★ HMS Stopford Bo'ness, Scotland landing craft working-up base

★ HMS Tamar (shore station) (Hong Kong) operated from 1897 to 1997 at two locations

★ HMS Terror (Singapore)

★ HMS Tormentor Hamble, Southampton, England landing craft operational base

★ HMS Tormentor II Cowes, Isle of Wight, England training camp.

★ HMS Turtle Poole, Dorset, England Combined Operations training

★ HMS Vectis Seaview, Isle of Wight, England Landing craft

★ HMS Vernon (Portsmouth, Hampshire, England)

★ 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 holdingbase for RM landing craft personnel

★ HMS Westcliffe II Burnham on Crouch, England Landing craft base

★ HMS Wildfire (Chatham, Kent, England)

★ HMS Wildfire II Combined Operations base

★ HMS Wildfire III Sheerness, England Combined Operations base

★ HMS Woolvestone Ipswich, England landing craft base

See also

★ List of air stations of the Royal Navy

★ Royal Navy Dockyards

References

1. Coastal Forces Shore establishments
2. Combined Operations Training Establishments
3. Birnbeck Island Pier - A short history