North Sea Squadron
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|caption= Tudor Green Ensign 1485 to 1603
|dates= 1543–1563
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|garrison= Newcastle, England.
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|notable_commanders= Vice-Admiral, Sir John Dudley, Earl of Warwick
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The North Sea Squadron {{cite book |last1=Knighton |first1=Dr C. S. |last2=Loades |first2=Professor David |title=The Navy of Edward VI and Mary I |date=2013 |publisher=Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |location=Farnham |isbn=9781409482406 |page=573 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fgSiAgAAQBAJ&dq=North+Sea+Squadron%2C+Tudor+Navy&pg=PA573 |language=en}} was a temporary naval formation of the Tudor Navy Royal during the sixteenth century operating out of Newcastle, England.{{cite book |last1=Rodger |first1=N.A.M. |title=The safeguard of the sea : a naval history of Britain. Vol 1., 660-1649 |date=1997 |publisher=Penguin |location=London |isbn=9780140297249 |page=181 |chapter=Operations - 1523 to 1550}}
Command of the squadron was usually vested in the Vice-Admiral in the North Sea.{{cite book |last1=Rose |first1=Susan |title=The Naval Miscellany |date=2008 |publisher=Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |location=Farnham, Kent, England |isbn=9780754664314 |page=67 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M4moSQxpbL4C&dq=Sir+Francis+Bryan+Vice+Admiral+North+Sea&pg=PA67 |language=en}}
Historical background
The North Sea has traditionally been an important command from the 13th to 15th centuries, when there was an Admiral of the North based at Yarmouth who commanded the Northern Fleet. During the 16th century Admirals and Vice Admirals were appointed to the command in the North Sea though on an temporary basis. From 1652 to 1654 Yarmouth was used by the Royal Navy for the temporary stationing of its North Sea Fleet during the First Anglo-Dutch War.{{cite book|last1=Davies|first1=J. D.|title=Pepys Navy: Ships, Men and Warfare 1649-89|date=2008|publisher=Seaforth Publishing|isbn=9781783830220|page=195|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1qe9AwAAQBAJ&dq=Yarmouth+Roads+Anchorage+North+Sea&pg=PA195|language=en}} From 1745 the North Sea Fleet became a permanent formation.{{cite book|last1=Palmer|first1=Charles John|title=The History of Great Yarmouth, Designed as a Continuation of Manship's History of that Town|date=1856|publisher=Louis Alfred Meall, The Quay|page=275}}
In command
=Vice-Admiral in the North Sea=
- Vice Admiral, Sir Francis Bryan, 1543, (also Vice-Admiral of England).{{cite book |last1=Loades |first1=D. M. |title=John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland, 1504-1553 |date=1996 |publisher=Clarendon Press |location=Wotton-under-Edge, England |isbn=9780198201939 |page=55 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9H505keQWgYC&dq=Vice-Admiral+of+England%2C+Francis+Bryan&pg=PA55 |language=en}}Rose. p.67.
- Vice-Admiral Sir William Woodhouse, February- 1543–1544.{{cite journal |last1=Glasgow |first1=Tom |title=Vice Admiral Woodhouse and Shipkeeping in the Tudor Navy |journal=The Mariner's Mirror |date=January 1977 |volume=63 |issue=3 |pages=253–263 |doi=10.1080/00253359.1977.10659032 |url=https://snr.org.uk/vice-admiral-woodhouse-shipkeeping-tudor-navy/ |accessdate=14 October 2018|url-access=subscription }}
- Vice-Admiral, Sir John Dudley, Earl of Warwick, January-February 1547. {{cite book |last1=Loades |first1=David |last2=Knighton |first2=C.S. |title=The navy of Edward VI and Mary I |date=2011 |publisher=Ashgate |location=Farnham |isbn=9781409418474 |page=540}}
- Vice-Admiral, William Elmes, March 1547.{{cite book |last1=Loades |first1=David |last2=Knighton |first2=C.S. |title=The navy of Edward VI and Mary I |date=2011 |publisher=Ashgate |location=Farnham |isbn=9781409418474 |page=541}}
- Vice-Admiral, Sir John Henshaw, August-December, 1563.{{cite book |last1=Loades |first1=David |last2=Knighton |first2=C.S. |title=The navy of Edward VI and Mary I |date=2011 |publisher=Ashgate |location=Farnham |isbn=9781409418474 |page=551}}
Footnotes
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Category:1543 establishments in England
Category:1563 disestablishments in England
Category:Military units and formations established in 1543
Category:Military units and formations disestablished in 1563
Category:16th-century military history of the Kingdom of England