Leith Station

Royal Navy forces first began operating from Leith between 1709 and 1713 during the War of the Spanish Succession when the then Lord High Admiral Thomas Herbert ordered a new squadron to Leith Roads naval anchorage which was then placed under the command of the Provost of Edinburgh Sir Patrick Johnston.{{cite book |last1=Murdoch |first1=Steve |title=The Terror of the Seas?: Scottish Maritime Warfare 1513–1713 |date=2010 |publisher=BRILL |location=Leiden, Netherlands |isbn=978-9004185685 |page=306 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0JP37A746SEC&q=Naval+Battles+off+Leith+Scotland&pg=PA306 |language=en}} Leith was initially used as an important port to protect convoys operating between the Orkney islands and Newcastle upon Tyne and to ports on the other side of the North Sea.{{cite book |last1=Murdoch |first1=Steve |title=The Terror of the Seas?: Scottish Maritime Warfare 1513–1713 |date=2010 |publisher=BRILL |location=Leiden, Netherlands |isbn=978-9004185685 |page=306 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0JP37A746SEC&q=Naval+Battles+off+Leith+Scotland&pg=PA306 |language=en}} The station was established in 1745 at the Port of Leith during the time of the French Revolutionary Wars and existed until 1825. The station throughout its existence was under the command of Commander-in-Chief, Leith who also duel-hatted in the role as Port Admiral, Leith.

:Incomplete list of post holders included:

• Rear-Admiral–John Byng–1745-1746
• Rear-Admiral Thomas Smith February 1746 – January 1747.{{cite DNB |wstitle= Smith, Thomas (d.1762) |volume= 53 |last= Laughton |first= John Knox |author-link= John Knox Laughton |pages= 133-134 |short= 1}}
• Commodore Sir Alexander Cochrane 1793
• Vice-Admiral of the Red—Richard Rodney Bligh, 1803 – 1804 {{cite web |last1=Jiscocks |first1=Richard |title=Richard Rodney Bligh – more than Nelson |url=https://morethannelson.com/officer/richard-rodney-bligh/ |website=more than Nelson |publisher=Richard Hiscocks 2018 |access-date=12 June 2018}}
• Rear-Admiral of the White–James Vashon–April 1804–1808 (promoted 9.11.1805 Rear-Admiral of the Red)
• Rear-Admiral of the Red–Edmund Nagle–July 1808 – 1812 (promoted to V.Adm July 1810) {{cite book |title=The Gentleman's Magazine |date=1830 |publisher=F. Jefferies |page=[https://archive.org/details/gentlemansmagaz299unkngoog/page/n500 469] |url=https://archive.org/details/gentlemansmagaz299unkngoog |quote=Commander-in-Chief at Leith, Rear-Admiral Edmund Nagle. |language=en}}
• Rear-Admiral William Johnstone Hope Nov. 1813 – August 1818 {{cite book |title=The United Service Magazine: With which are Incorporated the Army and Navy Magazine and Naval and Military Journal |date=1831 |publisher=H. Colburn |page=220 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hGaWB8KWjwcC&q=Commander-in-Chief+at+Leith%2C+Rear-Admiral+William+Johnstone+Hope&pg=PA220 |language=en}}
• Rear-Admiral: Robert Waller Otway August 1818 – 24 November 1821 {{cite web |title=Admiral Sir Robert Waller Otway (1770–1846) – National Maritime Museum |url=http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/14399.html |website=collections.rmg.co.uk |publisher=Royal Museums Greenwich |access-date=12 June 2018}}
• Vice-Admiral Sir John P. Beresford 1821–1825 {{cite RNB1823 |wstitle= Beresford, John Poo |volume= 52.2.2 | pages= 666-669 |year=1823 |short=1}}

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