Royal Navy Deployment on Foreign Stations, 1914

Contribued by Doug Thompson (doug_thompson@adg.ardemgaz.com), with his own comments interspersed throughout.

Royal Navy ships stationed outside of Home Fleet or the Mediterranean in August, 1914.
NB: this includes ships of the Royal Australian and Royal Canadian Navies.

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NEW ZEALAND
CL: Psyche, Pyramus
Philomel
Wallaroo (used as a guard ship)

AUSTRALIA (all Royal Australian Navy)
BC: Australia
CL: Melbourne, Sydney
Pioneer
Encounter
DD: Parramatta, Yarra, Warrago (all "I" class)
(Rich Pelvin (pelvin@mpx.com.au) notes that the design of these destroyers, while related to British practice of the period, was different enough for them to be considered as a unique class. In Australia they are usually referred to as the River Class).
SS: AE 1, AE 2

CHINA
BA: Triumph (in reserve)
AC: Minotaur, Hampshire
CL: Newcastle
Yarmouth
DD: Chelmer, Colne, Jed, Kennet, Ribble, Usk, Welland Otter, Fame
SS: C 36-38

EAST INDIES (Columbo)
BA: Swiftsure
CL:Dartmouth
Fox

AFRICA
(Cape Verde Islands)
5th Cruiser Squadron
AC: Carnarvon (f), Cornwall, Cumberland, Monmouth
(Cape of Good Hope)
CL:Pegasus
Hyacinth
Astraea

SOUTH AMERICA (Falklands?)
CL: Glasgow

NORTH AMERICA
(Jamaica)
4th CS
AC: Suffolk (f), Lancaster, Essex, Berwick
CL: Bristol
(Halifax- Royal Canadian Navy)
AC: Niobe
(British Columbia- RCN- Canadian Pacific Coast)
CL: Rainbow

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