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List of Royal Navy shore establishments

{{short description|Shore establishments (stone frigates) of the Royal Navy}}

{{Royal Navy}}{{Royal Navy ship types}}

This is a list of shore establishments (or stone frigates) of the Royal Navy and Corps of Royal Marines.

Current Royal Navy shore establishments

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{{Location map~|UK|lat=56.066|long=-4.817|mark=Blue pog.svg|position=top|label=HMNB Clyde}}

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{{Location map~|UK|lat=50.086111|long=-5.255833|mark=RAF Lowvis Army roundel.svg|position=left|label=RNAS Culdrose}}

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{{Location map~|UK|lat=50.357222|long=-3.582778|mark=green pog.svg|position=right|label=BRNC}}

{{Location map~|UK|lat=50.3739|long=-4.2227|mark=green pog.svg|position=top|label={{HMS|Raleigh}}}}

{{Location map~|UK|lat=51.619444|long=-0.409444|mark=blue pog.svg|position=top|label=Northwood HQ}}

{{Location map~|UK|lat=56.020556|long=-3.453333|mark=black pog.svg|position=bottom|label=Rosyth Dockyard}}

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{{Location map~|UK|lat=50.383|long=-4.183|mark=Blue pog.svg|position=bottom|label=HMNB Devonport}}

{{Location map~|UK|lat=50.80442|long=-1.10242|mark=Blue pog.svg|position=top|label=HMNB Portsmouth}}

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{{Location map+|United Kingdom Falkland Islands|float=right|width 150|caption=Mare Harbour, the base for Royal Navy vessels in the Falkland Islands & South Atlantic|places=

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{{Location map~|United Kingdom Falkland Islands|lat=-51.822778|long=-58.447222|mark=RAF Lowvis Army roundel.svg|position=left|label=RAF Mount Pleasant}}

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=Naval bases=

=Air stations=

=Training establishments=

=Other=

=Defence Munitions Centres=

Formerly Royal Naval Armaments Depot and formally elements of Defence Equipment and Support.

=Testing establishments=

=Overseas naval facilities=

  • HMS Jufair (Mina Salman Port, Bahrain){{cite news|title=UK-Bahrain sign landmark defence agreement|url=https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-bahrain-sign-landmark-defence-agreement|access-date=6 December 2014|publisher=Foreign & Commonwealth Office|date=5 December 2014}}{{cite news|title=UK to establish £15m permanent Mid East military base|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-30355953|access-date=6 December 2014|publisher=BBC|date=6 December 2014}}{{cite web|title=East of Suez, West from Helmand: British Expeditionary Force and the next SDSR|url=http://www.oxfordresearchgroup.org.uk/sites/default/files/ORGDec14EastSuezWestHelmand_0.pdf|publisher=Oxford Research Group|access-date=22 May 2015|date=December 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150702074143/http://www.oxfordresearchgroup.org.uk/sites/default/files/ORGDec14EastSuezWestHelmand_0.pdf|archive-date=2 July 2015|url-status=dead}}
  • East Cove Military Port (Mare Harbour, Falkland Islands)
  • Port of Gibraltar (Gibraltar)
  • UK Joint Logistics Support Base (Duqm, Oman){{Cite web|url=https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/the-uk-in-oman-a-new-support-facility-for-the-british-armed-forces/|title=The UK in Oman – A new support facility for the British Armed Forces|last=Tossini|first=J. Vitor|date=2018-02-20|website=UK Defence Journal|language=en-GB|access-date=2019-07-20}}{{Cite web|url=https://armadainternational.com/2018/11/uk-establishes-new-joint-support-base-in-oman/|title=UK establishes new Joint Support Base in Oman|last=Oliver|first=David|date=2018-11-27|website=Armada International|language=en-US|access-date=2019-07-20}}
  • British Defence Singapore Support Unit (Sembawang, Singapore){{cite book|title=Navy News (Magazine)|date=June 2011|publisher=Royal Navy|location=United Kingdom|page=11 Eastern Outpost|url=https://issuu.com/magarchive/docs/201106|access-date=22 June 2016}} ("The White Ensign is still flying above the operations of Naval Party 1022 (NP1022), based at Sembawang Wharves in Singapore.")
  • Diego Garcia (British Indian Ocean Territory){{cite journal|title=The Status and Location of the Military Installations of the Member States of the European Union |journal=Policy Department External Policies|date=February 2009|pages=13–14|url=http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meetdocs/2004_2009/documents/dv/sede300309studype407004_/SEDE300309StudyPE407004_en.pdf|access-date=21 October 2014}}

Current Royal Marines establishments

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{{Location map~|UK|lat=56.582222|long=-2.625278|mark=green pog.svg|position=right|label=45 Commando}}

{{Location map~|UK|lat=56.066|long=-4.817|mark=Blue pog.svg|position=bottom|label=HMNB Clyde}}

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{{Location map~|UK|lat=50.659333|long=-3.435667|mark=red pog.svg|position=left|label=CTCRM}}

{{Location map~|UK|lat=50.370833|long=-4.1625|mark=Blue pog.svg|position=bottom|label=HMNB Devonport}}

{{Location map~|UK|lat=50.720278|long=-2.021667|mark=green pog.svg|position=bottom|label=RM Poole}}

{{Location map~|UK|lat=51.038967|long=-3.154133|mark=green pog.svg|position=top|label=40 Cdo}}

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{{Location map~|UK|lat=51.087222|long=-4.150278|mark=green pog.svg|position=left|label=Chivenor & Instow}}

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{{Location map~|UK|lat=51.008611|long=-2.637778|mark=RAF Lowvis Army roundel.svg|position=right|label=Yeovilton}}

{{Location map~|UK|lat=50.80442|long=-1.10242|mark=Blue pog.svg|position=right|label=HMNB Portsmouth}}

{{Location map~|UK|lat=51.404722|long=-3.435833|mark=Blue pog.svg|position=top|label=MOD St Athan}}

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= Bases =

= Significant RM presences are also located in =

=Royal Marines Band Service=

= Royal Marines Reserve =

Current Royal Naval Reserve units and establishments

The modern Royal Naval Reserve has fifteen Units (with 3 satellite units). These are:

  • {{HMS|Calliope|shore establishment|6}}, Gateshead, Tyne & Wear, England
  • {{HMS|Cambria|shore establishment|6}}, Cardiff, Wales
  • Tawe Division (Swansea)
  • {{HMS|Ceres|2015 shore establishment|6}}, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England
  • {{HMS|Dalriada|shore establishment|6}}, Glasgow, Scotland{{cite web |url= http://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/News-and-Events/Latest-News/2013/April/22/130422-Royal-Navy-returns-to-Glasgow-after-20-years |title=Royal Navy returns to Glasgow after 20 year absence |work=Royal Navy Website |year=2013 |access-date=6 March 2014}}
  • {{HMS|Eaglet|shore establishment|6}}, Liverpool, England
  • {{HMS|Forward|1984 shore establishment|6}}, Birmingham, England
  • {{HMS|Flying Fox|shore establishment|6}}, Bristol, England
  • {{HMS|Ferret|1982 shore establishment|6}}, Chicksands, Bedfordshire, England
  • {{HMS|Hibernia|shore establishment|6}}, Lisburn, Northern Ireland
  • {{HMS|King Alfred|1994 shore establishment|6}}, Whale Island, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England
  • {{HMS|President|shore establishment|6}}, by Tower Bridge, London, England
  • Medway Division (Rochester, Kent)
  • {{HMS|Scotia|shore establishment|6}}, Rosyth, Fife, Scotland (Within the grounds of HMS Caledonia)
  • Tay Division (Dundee)
  • {{HMS|Sherwood|shore establishment|6}}, Nottingham, England
  • {{HMS|Vivid|shore establishment 1957|6}}, HMNB Devonport, Plymouth, Devon, England
  • {{HMS|Wildfire|2000 shore establishment|6}}, Northwood, Middlesex, England

Former shore establishments

=Former Imperial fortresses=

=Former naval bases=

{{main article|Royal Navy Dockyard}}

=Former air stations=

{{main article|List of air stations of the Royal Navy}}

  • {{HMS|Blackcap}} RNAS Stretton, Cheshire, 1942-1958
  • HMS Condor RNAS Arbroath, Angus, Scotland, 1940-1970
  • HMS Corncrake RNAS Ballyhalbert, County Down, Northern Ireland
  • HMS Daedalus (previously HMS Ariel 1959 - 1965) RNAS Lee-on-Solent, Lee-on-the-Solent, Hampshire, England
  • {{HMS|Dipper}} RNAS Henstridge, Somerset, 1943-1958
  • HMS Fulmar RNAS Lossiemouth Lossiemouth, Moray 1946 -1972
  • {{HMS|Godwit}} RNAS Hinstock, Shropshire, 1942–1947
  • {{HMS|Goldcrest}}, three naval air stations were commissioned as Goldcrest, RNAS Angle, RNAS Dale and RNAS Brawdy, in Pembrokeshire, Wales
  • {{HMS|Heron II}} 1942-1948, RNAS Charlton Horethorne, Somerset
  • {{HMS|Hornbill}} Royal Naval Air Station Culham, Oxfordshire
  • {{HMS|Jackdaw II}}, Dunino Kingsbarns Fife Satellite airfield of Crail
  • {{HMS|Kestrel|shore establishment|6}}, World War II Royal Naval Air Station at Worthy Down, HampshireHampshire Railways Remembered. Kevin Robertson & Leslie Oppitz. 1988. {{ISBN|0-905392-93-0}}. p97
  • HMS Merlin, Fife 1917–1959 RNAS Donibristle (also known as RAF Donibristle)
  • HMS Nightjar, RNAS Inskip (also known as HMS Inskip)
  • {{HMS|Nuthatch}}, RNAS Anthorn
  • HMS Osprey, naval air station, (Portland, Dorset, England) ASDIC training; Flag Officer Sea Training; RNAS Portland (Lynx helicopter)
  • {{HMS|Peewit}}, Angus, Scotland, 1943 - 1949, RNAS East Haven
  • HMS Peregrine RNAS Ford, Sussex
  • HMS Raven, Hampshire, England, RNAS Eastleigh in
  • {{HMS|Ringtail}}, Royal Naval Air Station Burscough, Lancashire, England
  • {{HMS|Robin}}, Grimsetter, Kirkwall, Orkney, RNAS Grimsetter
  • {{HMS|Sanderling}} RNAS Abbotsinch, Renfrewshire, Scotland
  • {{HMS|Siskin}}, Gosport Hampshire, RNAS Gosport. Now {{HMS|Sultan|shore establishment|6}}
  • {{HMS|Shrike}} County Down, Northern Ireland, Royal Naval Air Station Maydown, 1943-1947
  • HMS Sparrowhawk, Royal Naval Air Station Hatston, Kirkwall, Orkney, 1939 - 1948
  • HMS Tern, Twatt Orkney RNAS Twatt
  • HMS Urley, Second World War flying station on the Isle of Man, RNAS Ronaldsway.
  • HMS Vulture Royal Naval Air Station St Merryn (later HMS Curlew 1952-56), Cornwall, 1937-1952

=Former Royal Naval Hospitals=

{{main article|Royal Naval Hospital}}

=Former shore bases=

==A to D==

  • {{HMS|Abastor}}, Tilbury
  • {{HMS|Abatos}}, the bombed-out Supermarine factory, Woolston, Southampton{{cite book |title=Hampshire and D-Day |last=Doughty |first=Martin |year=1994 |isbn=1-85741-047-5}}
  • {{HMS|Afrikander}}, Base depot ship, Simon's Town, South Africa
  • {{HMS|Aggressive|shore establishment|6}}, Coastal Forces Motor Launch (ML) and Steam Gun Boat base, Newhaven, East Sussex
  • {{HMS|Allenby}}, Combined Operations base, Folkestone
  • {{HMS|Ambrose}}, Headquarters of 9th Submarine Flotilla (1940–1946), Dundee
  • {{HMS|Anderson}}, listening station of the Far East Combined Bureau, Colombo, Ceylon
  • {{HMS|Ararat}} (later {{HMS|Brontosaurus}}), Combined Training Centre, Castle Toward, Toward, Argyll
  • {{HMS|Arbella}}, Combined Operations Landing Craft Training Establishment, Boston, Lincolnshire
  • {{HMS|Appledore}}, Combined Operations base and training establishment, Fremington Camp, Fremington, Devon
  • HMS Appledore II, Combined Operations base, Ilfracombe
  • {{HMS|Ariel}} (formerly {{HMS|Kestrel}}), RNAS Worthy Down, Winchester, Hampshire
  • {{HMS|Ariel}}, Royal Naval Aircraft Training Establishment, Culcheth, Warrington, Cheshire
  • HMS Armanillo, Combined Operations RN Beach Commando training centre, Glenfinnart
  • HMS Asbury, shore based transit accommodation, Asbury Park, New Jersey
  • HMS Atlantic Isle, U-boat monitoring station, Tristan da Cunha during WWII{{cite web |url= http://www.tristandc.com/history1942-1961.php |title=Tristan History 1942–1961 |work=The Tristan da Cunha Website |year=2011 |access-date=5 November 2011}}
  • {{HMS|Attack|shore establishment|6}}, Coastal Forces MLs and storage, RN Dockyard, Portland
  • HMS Avalon, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
  • {{HMS|Badger|shore establishment|6}}, HQ of Flag Officer Harwich and Coastal Forces base (1939–1946), Harwich
  • HMS Baldur (also HMS Baldur II), Accommodation and accounting, Iceland
  • HMS Beaver, HQ, Flag Officer-in-Charge, Humber, (1 October 1940 – July 1945) – (base A.O. at Grimsby)
  • HMS Beaver II, Coastal Forces MLs, Immingham
  • {{HMS|Bee}}, Coastal Forces MLs working up base, Weymouth (1942–1943), then Holyhead, Wales (1943–1945)
  • {{HMS|Beehive}}, Coastal Forces MTBs and MGBs, Boomer Hall, Felixstowe, Suffolk
  • {{HMS|Bellerophon}}, Portsmouth, Hampshire
  • {{HMS|Benbow}}, Trinidad
  • HMS Birnbeck, Secret weapons research and testing (1941–1946), Birnbeck Pier, Weston-super-Mare{{cite web|url=http://www.birnbeckpier.org/birnbeck_pier_history.php |work=Friends of the Old Pier Society |title=Birnbeck Island Pier – A short history |access-date=2007-06-06 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928010805/http://www.birnbeckpier.org/birnbeck_pier_history.php |archive-date=2007-09-28 }}
  • HMS Bluebird III, (formerly HMS Allenby, possibly), Folkestone
  • {{HMS|Boscawen|shore establishment|6}}, Naval Police Patrol HQ, Portland, Dorset
  • HMS Britannia III, Coastal Forces Motor Torpedo Boat & Motor Gun Boats, Dartmouth
  • {{HMS|Brontosaurus}} (formerly {{HMS|Ararat}}), Combined Operations landing craft crew training, Castle Toward, Toward, Argyll
  • HMS Cabbala, Training establishment for WRNS W/T operators, at Lowton{{cite web |url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/18/a8174018.shtml |title=BBC: WW2 People's War |work=MEMOIRS OF AN HMS FORWARD (1939-1945) WRNS TELEGRAPHIST |year=2006 |access-date=11 May 2013}} near Warrington[https://books.google.com/books?id=gGLm1lhzu8AC&pg=PA94 Signal!: A History of Signalling in the Royal Navy, Barrie H. Kent, Permanent Publications, 2004] {{ISBN|1-85623-025-2}} {{ISBN|978-1-85623-025-4}}
  • {{HMS|Caledonia}}, Rosyth, Fife
  • {{HMS|Cambridge|shore establishment}}, Wembury, Devon
  • {{HMS|Caroline|1914}}, Coastal Forces MLs, Belfast
  • {{HMS|Centurion|shore establishment|6}}, Gosport, Hampshire
  • {{HMS|Centurion|shore establishment|6}}, Haslemere, Surrey
  • {{HMS|Ceres|1946 shore establishment|6}} (formerly {{HMS|Demetrius}}), Wetherby, Yorkshire
  • {{HMS|Ceres|1984 shore establishment|6}}, Yeadon, West Yorkshire
  • {{HMS|Cicala}}, Coastal Forces MTBs & MGBs, Dartmouth{{cite web|url=http://dartmouthmuseum.org/things-to-do/#walking|title=Things to Do | Indoor | Outdoor | Dartmouth Museum|publisher=Dartmouth Museum|access-date=23 August 2011|quote=The Royal Dart Hotel between the ferries played a vital role in the Second World War. It was called HMS Cicala then.|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120710073830/http://dartmouthmuseum.org/things-to-do/#walking|archive-date=10 July 2012}}{{cite web|url=http://dartmouthmuseum.org/collections/memories/ww2.html|title=WW2 Memories- HMS Cicala – Dartmouth Museum|publisher=Dartmouth Museum|access-date=14 May 2012|quote=In January 1944 I was a Wren stationed in Kingswear, South Devon, attached to HMS Cicala, a Coastal Forces Station consisting of Motor Torpedo and Motor Gun Boats used for harrying German E Boats in the waters close to the Channel Islands.|url-status=dead|archive-url=http://arquivo.pt/wayback/20160518153630/http://dartmouthmuseum.org/collections/memories/ww2.html|archive-date=18 May 2016}}
  • {{HMS|Claverhouse|shore establishment|6}}, Coastal Forces MLs, Leith
  • {{HMS|Cochrane}} (formerly RNAS Donibristle/{{HMS|Merlin}}), Rosyth, Fife
  • HMS Copra, Combined Operations Pay, Ratings and Accounts, The Moorings, Largs{{cite web |url= http://www.combinedops.com/COPRA.htm |title=HMS COPRA |first=Geoff |last=Slee |work=Combined Operations |year=2011 |access-date=5 November 2011}}
  • {{HMS|Cricket|shore establishment|6}}, Landing Craft training base, River Hamble, Hampshire
  • {{HMS|Dalriada|shore establishment|6}}, Royal Naval Reserve base, Greenock, Inverclyde,
  • {{HMS|Dalriada|shore establishment|6}}, Royal Naval Reserve base, Inverkip, Inverclyde,
  • HMS Dartmouth II, Coastal Forces MTBs, MGBs & MLs, Dartmouth
  • {{HMS|Defiance|shore establishment 1884|6}}, Torpedo school, Devonport, Devon
  • {{HMS|Defiance|shore establishment 1970|6}}, Fleet Maintenance Base, Devonport
  • {{HMS|Dinosaur}} I, HQ for tank landing craft training, Troon, Ayrshire
  • HMS Dinosaur II, Landing craft and work-up base, Irvine, Ayrshire
  • HMS Dorlin, Combined Operations RN Beach Signals and Royal Signals sections battle training, Dorlin House, Acharacle, Argyll
  • {{HMS|Dolphin}}, Gosport, Hampshire
  • {{HMS|Dryad|shore establishment|6}}, former location of the Maritime Warfare School, Southwick, Hampshire
  • {{HMS|Duke|shore establishment|6}}, Basic Training Establishment, Malvern, 1944–1945. The Telecommunications Research Establishment moved into Duke in 1946 (renamed in turn the Radar Research Establishment, the Royal Radar Establishment and the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment) and is now a QinetiQ research site.
  • {{HMS|Dundonald}} I, Holding and training base for RN Beach Commandos, Gailes Camp, Auchengate, Troon, Ayrshire
  • HMS Dundonald II, Combined Signal School (CSS), Auchingate, Troon, Ayrshire

==E to K==

  • {{HMS|Egmont}}, Naval HQ, Fort St Angelo, Birgu, Malta
  • {{HMS|Ferret|1940 shore establishment|6}} (later HMS Sea Eagle), Convoy escort base and anti-submarine training, Londonderry, Northern Ireland
  • {{HMS|Fervent|shore establishment|6}}, Coastal Forces MTBs, MGBs & MLs, Ramsgate
  • {{HMS|Fisgard|1946|6}}, artificer and engineer training (1848–1983), Torpoint, Cornwall
  • HMS Fledgling/RNAS Mill Meece. Training establishment for WRNS Air Mechanics (Ordnance) engineers, Mill Meece, Staffordshire
  • HMS Flora III, Coastal Forces MLs, Invergordon, Scotland
  • {{HMS|Flycatcher}}, HQ of Mobile Naval Air Bases during World War II, Ludham then Middle Wallop. RNAS Kai Tak from 1947.{{cite web |url= http://www.helis.com/database/heliport/hk_kai_tak |title=Kai Tak |work=Helicopter Database |year=2011 |access-date=5 November 2011}}
  • HMS Flowerdown, Y-station at RAF Flowerdown
  • HMS Foliot I, Landing craft accounting base, Plymouth
  • HMS Foliot III, Combined Operations holding base, Buckleigh, Plymouth
  • {{HMS|Forest Moor}}, HF receiver station, Nidderdale, Harrogate
  • HMS Forte IV, Coastal Forces MLs, Falmouth
  • {{HMS|Forward|1939 shore establishment|6}}, Command and radar plotting centre, Newhaven
  • HMS Forward II (later HMS Aggressive), Coastal Forces MTBs, Newhaven
  • {{HMS|Fox|shore establishment|6}}, Coastal Forces MTBs & MLs, Lerwick, Scotland
  • {{HMS|Ganges|shore establishment|6}}, Boys' Training Establishment, Shotley, Ipswich, Suffolk
  • {{HMS|Glendower}} WWII training establishment, Butlin's Pwllheli holiday camp, Caernarfonshire
  • HMS Golden Hind, WW2 RN Barracks, Sydney, Australia
  • HMS Gosling, Royal Naval Air Establishment, Risley, Warrington, Cheshire, was a collection of 5 camps responsible for various aspects of training FAA personnel
  • {{HMS|Gunner}}, Auxiliary Patrol base, Lerwick, Shetland
  • {{HMS|Haig}}, Rye
  • {{HMS|Hannibal}}, Algiers
  • {{HMS|Harrier|shore establishment|6}}, Radar training establishment, near Dale, Pembrokeshire{{cite web |url=http://www.dale-coastlands-history.org.uk/projects/military-history/hms-harrier/ |title=HMS Harrier |work=Coastlands Local History Group |access-date=28 September 2019}}
  • {{HMS|Hawke|shore establishment|6}}, Landing craft, Exbury House, Hampshire
  • HMS "Hawke", a temporary naval training school based within part of the Borstal Institution, 1940-46{{cite web|last1=Archives|first1=The National|title=BORSTAL TRAINING: Rochester Borstal Institution: use as naval barracks (HO 45/23129)|url=https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C4756266|website=discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk|publisher=National Archives, 1940–1945|access-date=18 May 2023}}
  • {{HMS|Helder}}, Landing craft training, Brightlingsea
  • {{HMS|Helicon}}, Scapa Flow diversionary anchorage, 1939–40, Arctic convoys concentration point, 1942–44, Loch Ewe
  • {{HMS|Highflyer}}, Trincomalee, Ceylon
  • {{HMS|Hornet}}, Coastal Forces Depot MTB, Gosport, Hampshire
  • {{HMS|Idaho}}, WWI base at Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire{{cite news|work=Western Telegraph|title=Pembrokeshire's front line role in the U-boat war|date=11 November 2018|url=https://www.westerntelegraph.co.uk/news/17217924.pembrokeshires-front-line-role-in-the-u-boat-war/|access-date=13 November 2018}}
  • {{HMS|Inskip}}, Inskip, Preston, Lancashire
  • {{HMS|Jackdaw}}, RNAS Crail, Fife
  • {{HMS|James Cook}}, Combined Operations Beach Training Establishment, Glen Caladh, Nr Tighnabruaich, Argyll
  • {{HMS|Jufair}}, Bahrain
  • {{HMS|Kestrel}} (later HMS Ariel), Royal Naval Air Station and General Service Establishment, Worthy Down, near Winchester, England
  • {{HMS|King Alfred|1939 shore establishment|6}}, WWII RNVR officer training centre, Hove, Sussex

==L to R==

  • {{HMS|Lanka}}, Colombo, Ceylon
  • {{HMS|Lizard|shore establishment|6}}, Combined Operations landing craft base, Shoreham
  • {{HMS|Lochailort}}, Combined Operations officer training, Inverailort House, Lochailort, Inverness-shire
  • {{HMS|Lochinvar|shore establishment|6}}, Fleet Minesweeper base, Port Edgar, South Queensferry
  • {{HMS|Louisburg}} (also HMS Roseneath), Combined Operations, Roseneath, Dunbartonshire
  • HMS Lynx, HQ, Naval Officer-in-Charge, Dover & CO HMS Lynx, (10 July 1945 – April 1946)
  • {{HMS|Macaw}}, Bootle, Cumbria, England. FAA aircrew reception centre.
  • {{HMS|Malabar|shore establishment|6}}, Bermuda
  • {{HMS|Manatee}}, Landing craft, Yarmouth, Isle of Wight
  • {{HMS|Marlborough}}, Electrical training school, Eastbourne{{cite web |url=http://www.godfreydykes.info/The%20Naval%20Prime%20Electrical%20Training%20School%20in%20WW2.htm |title=Royal Naval Electrical Training before the establishment of the Electrical Branch in 1947 and specifically during World War Two |work=Dykes, Godfrey |access-date=28 September 2019}}
  • {{HMS|Mastodon}}, Landing craft, Exbury House, Hampshire
  • {{HMS|Mauritius|shore establishment|6}}, Mauritius
  • HMS Martelo, HQ Naval Officer-in-Charge, Lowestoft, (1 October 1945 – April 1946)
  • {{HMS|Medina|shore establishment|6}}, Landing craft and Fleet Air Arm, Puckpool, Ryde, Isle of Wight
  • {{HMS|Mentor}}, Lews Castle, Stornoway, Western Isles
  • {{HMS|Mercia}}, Communications Training Centre, Coventry
  • {{HMS|Mercury|shore establishment|6}}, Communications school, Petersfield, Hampshire
  • {{HMS|Midge}}, Great Yarmouth
  • HMS Minos, HQ Naval Officer-in-Charge, Lowestoft, (5 May 1942 – 1 October 1945)
  • {{HMS|Monck}}, Combined Training HQ, Largs, Ayrshire
  • HMS Monck, Combined Operations Carrier Training, Port Glasgow
  • HMS Monck, Roseneath, Dunbartonshire
  • HMS Monck, HQ Flag Officer Greenock, Greenock
  • HMS Nemo, HQ Naval Officer-in-Charge, Brightlingsea, (June 1940 – May 1945)
  • {{HMS|Newt|shore establishment|6}}, Landing craft base, Newhaven
  • {{HMS|Nile}}, Alexandria, Egypt (1939–1946)
  • {{HMS|Nimrod|1940|6}}, Anti-submarine warfare training from early 1940, Campbeltown, Argyll
  • {{HMS|Northney}} (HMS Northney I, HMS Northney II, HMS Northney III and HMS Northnney IV), Landing craft training base, Hayling Island
  • HMS Osprey, (from January 1941), Asdic training, advanced courses for officers, Dunoon, Argyll
  • {{HMS|Owl}}, RNAS Fearn, Fearn, Ross-shire
  • {{HMS|Pasco}}, Combined Operations landing craft signals training, Glenbranter Camp, Glenbranter, Strachur, Argyll
  • {{HMS|Pembroke|establishment|6}}, HQ, Commander-in-Chief, the Nore, (RN base, Chatham) Chatham, Kent
  • {{HMS|Pembroke|establishment|6}}, HQ, Admiral-Superintendent, Chatham Dockyard, Chatham, Kent
  • {{HMS|Pembroke|establishment|6}}, HQ, Commodore-in-Command, Royal Naval Barracks, Chatham, Chatham, Kent
  • HMS Phœnicia, Manoel Island, Malta
  • {{HMS|Phoenix|shore establishment, Portsmouth|6}}, Tipner, Portsmouth, Hampshire
  • {{HMS|President|shore establishment|6}} (parts later spun out as HMS St Vincent), Admiralty accounting base, Furse House, 37 Queen's Gate Terrace, London SW7
  • HMS President II, HQ, Liaison Officer for Naval Reserve and Merchant Navy Duties, London, (8 February 1938 – August 1939)
  • {{HMS|Proserpine}}, Lyness, Orkney
  • {{HMS|Pyramus}}, Kirkwall, Orkney
  • HMS Queen Charlotte WWII land-based gunnery school, Shore Rd., Ainsdale Southport, Lancashire
  • {{HMS|Quebec|shore establishment|6}}, Combined Operations training, Inverary, Argyll
  • HMS Return, Tokyo, Japan – now British Embassy in Tokyo{{cite web |url=http://www.abctales.com/story/ericv/tokyo-sharks-and-ice-cream |title=Tokyo, Sharks and Ice Cream. ABCtales |work=Ericv |year=2013 |access-date=23 October 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029201917/http://www.abctales.com/story/ericv/tokyo-sharks-and-ice-cream |archive-date=29 October 2013 }}{{cite book |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=GLzz5vDYhegC&pg=PA182 |title=Hugh Cortazzi – Collected Writings |work=Cortazzi, Hugh |year=2000 |isbn=9781134251742 |access-date=23 October 2013|last1=Cortazzi |first1=Hugh |publisher=Routledge }}
  • {{HMS|Robertson}}, Holding base for RM landing craft personnel, Kitchener Camp, Richborough, Kent
  • {{HMS|Rooke|1946 shore establishment|6}}, Gibraltar
  • {{HMS|Roseneath}} (also HMS Louisburg), Combined Operations, Roseneath, Dunbartonshire
  • {{HMS|Royal Albert}}, Wireless Station (SIGINT), Cuxhaven, Germany. Post-WWII
  • {{HMS|Royal Arthur|shore establishment|6}}, Petty Officers' training school, Butlins Skegness, later Corsham, Wiltshire{{cite web |url= http://bygonebutlins.com/skegness/ |title=Skegness |work=Bygone Butlins |year=2008 |access-date=5 November 2011}}
  • {{HMS|Royal Charlotte}}, Wireless Station (SIGINT), Cuxhaven, Germany. Post-WWII
  • Royal Naval College, Greenwich, London

==S to Z==

  • {{HMS|St Angelo}}, Naval HQ, Fort St Angelo, Birgu, Malta
  • {{HMS|St Barbara}}, Bognor Regis, Sussex, anti-aircraft firing range and gunnery training school{{cite web|title=HMS St. Barbara|url=http://www.armedforcesdaybognorregis.co.uk/st-barbara|website=Armed Forces Day Bognor Regis|access-date=3 October 2017}}
  • {{HMS|St Christopher|shore establishment|6}}, Coastal Forces training base, Fort William, Inverness-shire{{cite web |url= http://www.mbriscoe.me.uk/page7.html |title=HMS St Christopher through WWII |first=Derrick |last=Warner |work=A Short History of HMS St Christopher |year=2011 |access-date=5 November 2011}}
  • HMS St George, Gosport, Hampshire
  • {{HMS|St Matthew}}, Commando training base 1943–1945, Burnham-on-Crouch, Essex
  • {{HMS|St Vincent|Gosport shore establishment|6}} (1927–1969), Boys and Juniors Training Establishment, Gosport, Hampshire
  • {{HMS|St Vincent|London shore establishment|6}} (1992–1998), Communications centre, Whitehall, London
  • {{HMS|Salford}}, RNR Communications Training Centre, Salford
  • {{HMS|Sanderling}}, RNAS Abbotsinch, Abbotsinch, Glasgow
  • {{HMS|Scotia}}, Basic training, 1942, from 1959 RNR Rosyth, Butlin's Ayr, South Ayrshire
  • {{HMS|Sea Eagle}} (formerly {{HMS|Ferret|1940 shore establishment|6}}), Eglinton, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland
  • {{HMS|Sea Serpent}}, Bracklesham Bay and Birdham, near Chichester
  • HMS Seahawk, Coastal Forces training base, Ardrishaig, Argyll{{cite web |url= http://www.hmsseahawk.com/Seahawk.html |title=Seahawk |first=John |last=Burchell |work=HMS Seahawk |year=2011 |access-date=5 November 2011}}
  • {{HMS|Sembawang}} (Singapore Naval Base), was the Royal Navy's biggest dockyard and its base of operations in the Far East from 1939 until 1971. {{HMS|Terror}} (1945–1971) was the barracks next to the naval base, while the nearby {{HMS|Simbang}} was a RN Air Station.
  • {{HMS|Sheba}}, Aden
  • {{HMS|Sparrowhawk}}, RNAS Hatston, Orkney, Scotland
  • {{HMS|Spartiate}}, Western Approaches Command, St Enoch's Hotel, Glasgow
  • {{HMS|Squid}}, Tank landing craft repair base, Southampton
  • HMS Squid II, Landing craft squadron staff, Westcliff Hall Hotel, Hythe
  • {{HMS|Standard|1942|6}}, WWII training establishment for men who would otherwise be discharged, Kielder, Northumberland{{cite book |title=Hostilities Only – Training the Wartime Royal Navy |last=Lavery|first=Brian |year=2004 |publisher= National Maritime Museum |isbn=0-948065-48-6}}
  • {{HMS|Stopford}}, Landing craft working-up base, Bo'ness
  • HMS Talbot, Manoel Island, Malta
  • {{HMS|Tamar|shore station|6}}, Base operated from 1897 to 1997 at two locations in Hong Kong
  • {{HMS|Tarlair}}, Hydrophone training school during World War I, Hawkcraig near Aberdour
  • {{HMS|Tern}}, RNAS Twatt, Orkney, Scotland
  • {{HMS|Thunderer}}, Royal Naval Engineering College, Keyham and Manadon, Plymouth, Devon
  • HMS Tormentor, Landing craft operational base, Hamble, Southampton
  • HMS Tormentor II Training camp, Cowes, Isle of Wight
  • HMS Tullichewan (previously HMS Spartiate II), Holding base for Combined Operations, Tullichewan Castle Camp, Balloch, Loch Lomond, Scotland{{cite web |url= http://www.secretscotland.org.uk/index.php/Secrets/HMSTullichewan |title= HMS Tullichewan |work=Secret |year=2011 |access-date=5 November 2011}}
  • {{HMS|Turtle}}, Combined Operations training, Poole, Dorset
  • {{HMS|Uva}}, Diyatalawa, Ceylon
  • HMS Valkyrie, Training establishment for HO ratings, Isle of Man
  • {{HMS|Varbel}}, X class submarine training, Port Bannatyne Hydropathic Hotel, Port Bannatyne, Isle of Bute, Scotland
  • {{HMS|Varbell II}}, X class submarine advanced training, Ardtaraig House, Loch Striven, Argyll, Scotland
  • HMS Vectis (shore establishment), Cowes Castle, Cowes, Isle of Wight
  • {{HMS|Vernon|shore establishment|6}}, Portsmouth, Hampshire
  • {{HMS|Wagtail}}, RNAS Ayr
  • {{HMS|Warren}}, Combined Operations senior officer training, Largs, Ayrshire
  • {{HMS|Wasp}}, Coastal Forces HQ, Lord Warden Hotel, Dover{{cite web |url=http://www.dover-kent.co.uk/leisure/lord_warden_hotel.htm |title=Lord Warden Hotel |work=Dover : Lock and Key of the Kingdom |year=2010 |access-date=5 November 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040721084033/http://www.dover-kent.co.uk/leisure/lord_warden_hotel.htm |archive-date=21 July 2004 }}
  • HMS Watchful, HQ, Flag Officer-in-Charge, Yarmouth, (14 April 1942 – July 1945)
  • {{HMS|Westcliffe}}, Flotilla training, Southend
  • HMS Westcliffe II, Combined Operations holding base for RM landing craft personnel, Burnham-on-Crouch, Essex
  • {{HMS|Wildfire|1964 shore establishment|6}}, Chatham, Kent
  • HMS Wildfire II (1939–1940), Combined Operations base, Sheerness
  • HMS Wildfire III (1940–1946), Combined Operations base, Sheerness
  • {{HMS|Woolvestone}}, Landing craft base, Ipswich
  • HMS Yeoman, HQ, Flag Officer-in-Charge, London, (3 February 1942 – July 1945)
  • HMS Yeoman, HQ, Naval Officer-in-Charge, London, (1-30, April, 1946)

==Other==

Royal Naval Armaments Depots

{{main article|Royal Naval Armaments Depot}}

Royal Naval Stores Depots

: Include:{{cite web|title=Royal Navy (Stores Depots) |url=https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/written-answers/1981/dec/22/royal-navy-stores-depots|website=Parliamentary Debates (Hansard)|date=22 December 1981|access-date=30 July 2017}}

Royal Navy Aircraft Yards

See also

References

{{reflist|30em}}

Further reading

  • Shield of Empire – The Royal Navy and Scotland, Brian Lavery, Birlinn 2007 {{ISBN|978-1-84158-513-0}}

External links

  • [http://www.unithistories.com/units_british/RN_CoastalForces.html#Shore%20establishments Coastal Forces Shore establishments]
  • [http://www.combinedops.com/Training%20EST%20UK.htm Combined Operations Training Establishments]

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Royal Navy shore establishments