List of Royal Navy shore establishments

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

Current Royal Navy shore establishments[]

List of Royal Navy shore establishments is located in the United Kingdom
List of Royal Navy shore establishments
Portsmouth establishments
Portsmouth establishments
List of Royal Navy shore establishments
HMNB Clyde
HMNB Clyde
List of Royal Navy shore establishments
RNAS Culdrose
RNAS Culdrose
RNAS Yeovilton
RNAS Yeovilton
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BRNC
BRNC
Northwood HQ
Northwood HQ
Rosyth Dockyard
Rosyth Dockyard
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HMNB Devonport
HMNB Devonport
HMNB Portsmouth
HMNB Portsmouth
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Royal Navy bases and establishments in the United Kingdom (Portsmouth establishments: HMS Collingwood, HMS Excellent, HMS Sultan, HMS Temeraire, Institute of Naval Medicine)
List of Royal Navy shore establishments is located in Bahrain
HMS Juffair
HMS Juffair
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Royal Navy support facility in Bahrain
List of Royal Navy shore establishments is located in Falkland Islands
RAF Mount Pleasant
RAF Mount Pleasant
Stanley
Stanley
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Mare Harbour, the base for Royal Navy vessels in the Falkland Islands & South Atlantic

Naval bases[]

  • HMS Drake (HMNB Devonport, Devonport, Devon)
  • HMS Nelson (HMNB Portsmouth, Portsmouth)
  • HMS Neptune (HMNB Clyde, Faslane, Dunbartonshire)

Air stations[]

Training establishments[]

  • HMS Collingwood (Fareham, Hampshire)
  • HMS Dartmouth (Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, Devon)
  • HMS Excellent (Whale Island, Portsmouth)
  • HMS Raleigh (Torpoint, Cornwall)
    • Includes Brecon as static training ship
  • HMS Sultan (Gosport, Hampshire)
    • To be disposed of not before 2029 as part of the Defence Estate Optimisation plan[1]
  • HMS Temeraire (Directorate of Naval Physical Training and Sport (DNPTS), Portsmouth)

Other[]

  • HMS Caledonia, Rosyth Dockyard, Rosyth, Fife
  • HMS Saker, Administrative aggregation of Royal Navy personnel based in the United States
  • Institute of Naval Medicine (Alverstoke, Hampshire) INM[2]
  • Northwood Headquarters (Northwood, Middlesex, England), formerly HMS Warrior. Operational HQ for Commander Operations

Defence Munitions Centres[]

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

Testing establishments[]

  • Vulcan Naval Reactor Test Establishment (HMS Vulcan) (Dounreay, Thurso, Caithness)
    • Currently being decommissioned

Overseas naval facilities[]

De facto overseas naval facilities
  • Diego Garcia (British Indian Ocean Territory)[6]

Current Royal Marines establishments[]

List of Royal Navy shore establishments is located in the United Kingdom
45 Commando
45 Commando
HMNB Clyde
HMNB Clyde
43 Commando
43 Commando
CTCRM
CTCRM
HMNB Devonport
HMNB Devonport
40 Cdo
40 Cdo
Chivenor & Instow
Chivenor & Instow
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Yeovilton
Yeovilton
HMNB Portsmouth
HMNB Portsmouth
MOD St Athan
MOD St Athan
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Royal Marines Establishments - Green: RM Units, Blue: Royal Navy Establishments, Red: Training, Roundel: Fleet Air Arm station

Significant RM presences are also located in:

Royal Marines Band Service[]

  • HMS Nelson, HMNB Portsmouth – Band of HM Royal Marines School of Music
  • HMS Raleigh – Band of HM Royal Marines Plymouth
  • HMS Collingwood – Band of HM Royal Marines Collingwood
  • MoD Caledonia – Band of HM Royal Marines Scotland
  • Commando Training Centre Royal Marines – Band of HM Royal Marines Commando Training Centre Royal Marines

Current Royal Naval Reserve units and establishments[]

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

Former shore establishments[]

Former Imperial fortresses[]

Former naval bases[]

Former air stations[]

  • RNAS Lee-on-Solent (HMS Daedalus) (previously HMS Ariel) Lee-on-the-Solent, Hampshire, England
  • HMS Kestrel, World War II Royal Naval Air Station at Worthy Down, Hampshire[11]
  • RNAS Lossiemouth (HMS Fulmar) Lossiemouth, Moray 1946 -1972
  • HMS Jackdaw II, Dunino Kingsbarns Fife Satellite airfield of Crail
  • RNAS Donibristle, Fife 1917–1959 (also known as RAF Donibristle)
  • HMS Osprey, naval air station, (Portland, Dorset, England) ASDIC training; Flag Officer Sea Training; RNAS Portland (Lynx helicopter)
  • HMS Robin, Grimsetter, Kirkwall, Orkney, RNAS Grimsetter
  • HMS Siskin, Gosport Hampshire, Now HMS Sultan
  • HMS Tern, Twatt Orkney RNAS Twatt
  • HMS Nuthatch, RNAS Anthorn
  • HMS Goldcrest, Brawdy. Pembrokeshire
  • HMS Urley, Second World War flying station on the Isle of Man

Former Royal Naval Hospitals[]

  • RNH Bermuda.
  • RNH Bighi, Malta
  • RNH Gibraltar, Gibraltar
  • RNH Gillingham, in Medway, Kent
  • RNH Greenwich, in London
  • RNH Haslar, Gosport, England
  • RNH Mauritius
  • RNH Mtarfa, Malta
  • RNH Plymouth, known as Stonehouse, Devonport, England
  • RNH Portland, Dorset.
  • Royal Naval Hospital (Hong Kong) – now Ruttonjee Hospital in Hong Kong, China
  • RNH Trincomalee, Trincomalee, Sri Lanka (Ceylon)

Former shore bases[]

A to D[]

  • HMS Abastor, Tilbury
  • HMS Abatos, the bombed-out Supermarine factory, Woolston, Southampton[12]
  • HMS Afrikander, Base depot ship, Simon's Town, South Africa
  • HMS Aggressive, Coastal Forces Motor Launch (ML) and Steam Gun Boat base, Newhaven, East Sussex
  • , Combined Operations base, Folkestone
  • HMS Ambrose, Headquarters of 9th Submarine Flotilla (1940–1946), Dundee
  • , listening station of the Far East Combined Bureau, Colombo, Ceylon
  • (later HMS Brontosaurus), Combined Training Centre, Castle Toward, Toward, Argyll
  • , 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,
  • HMS Asbury, shore based transit accommodation, Asbury Park, New Jersey
  • HMS Atlantic Isle, U-boat monitoring station, Tristan da Cunha during WWII[13]
  • , Coastal Forces MLs and storage, RN Dockyard, Portland
  • HMS Avalon, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
  • HMS Badger, 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)
  • , 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[14]
  • HMS Bluebird III, (formerly HMS Allenby, possibly), Folkestone
  • , Naval Police Patrol HQ, Portland, Dorset
  • HMS Britannia III, Coastal Forces Motor Torpedo Boat & Motor Gun Boats, Dartmouth
  • HMS Brontosaurus (formerly ), Combined Operations landing craft crew training, Castle Toward, Toward, Argyll
  • HMS Cabbala, Training establishment for WRNS W/T operators, at Lowton[15] near Warrington[16]
  • HMS Caledonia, Rosyth, Fife
  • HMS Cambridge (1956), Wembury, Devon
  • HMS Caroline (1914), Coastal Forces MLs, Belfast
  • , Gosport, Hampshire
  • , Haslemere, Surrey
  • (formerly ), Wetherby, Yorkshire
  • , Yeadon, West Yorkshire
  • HMS Cicala, Coastal Forces MTBs & MGBs, Dartmouth[17][18]
  • HMS Claverhouse, Coastal Forces MLs, Leith
  • HMS Cochrane (formerly RNAS Donibristle/HMS Merlin), Rosyth, Fife
  • HMS Copra, Combined Operations Pay, Ratings and Accounts, The Moorings, Largs[19]
  • HMS Cricket, Landing Craft training base, River Hamble, Hampshire
  • HMS Dalriada, Royal Naval Reserve base, Greenock, Inverclyde,[10]
  • HMS Dalriada, Royal Naval Reserve base, Inverkip, Inverclyde,
  • HMS Dartmouth II, Coastal Forces MTBs, MGBs & MLs, Dartmouth
  • , Torpedo school, Devonport, Devon
  • , Fleet Maintenance Base, Devonport
  • 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, former location of the Maritime Warfare School, Southwick, Hampshire
  • HMS Duke, 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.
  • 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 (later HMS Sea Eagle), Convoy escort base and anti-submarine training, Londonderry, Northern Ireland
  • , Coastal Forces MTBs, MGBs & MLs, Ramsgate
  • HMS Fisgard, artificer and engineer training (1848–1983), Torpoint, Cornwall
  • 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.[20]
  • HMS Flowerdown, Y-station at RAF Flowerdown
  • HMS Foliot I, Landing craft accounting base, Plymouth
  • HMS Foliot III, Combined Operations holding base, , Plymouth
  • HMS Forest Moor, HF receiver station, Nidderdale, Harrogate
  • HMS Forte IV, Coastal Forces MLs, Falmouth
  • HMS Forward, Command and radar plotting centre, Newhaven
  • HMS Forward II (later HMS Aggressive), Coastal Forces MTBs, Newhaven
  • , Coastal Forces MTBs & MLs, Lerwick, Scotland
  • HMS Ganges, Boys' Training Establishment, Shotley, Ipswich, Suffolk
  • 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
  • , Auxiliary Patrol base, Lerwick, Shetland
  • , Rye
  • HMS Hannibal, Algiers
  • HMS Harrier, Radar training establishment, near Dale, Pembrokeshire[21]
  • , Landing craft training, Brightlingsea
  • , 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
  • , WWI base at Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire[22]
  • HMS Inskip, Inskip, Preston, Lancashire
  • HMS Jackdaw, RNAS Crail, Fife
  • , Combined Operations Beach Training Establishment, , 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, WWII RNVR officer training centre, Hove, Sussex

L to R[]

  • HMS Lanka, Colombo, Ceylon
  • , Combined Operations landing craft base, Shoreham
  • , Combined Operations officer training, Inverailort House, Lochailort, Inverness-shire
  • HMS Lochinvar, Fleet Minesweeper base, Port Edgar, South Queensferry
  • (also HMS Roseneath), Combined Operations, Roseneath, Dunbartonshire
  • HMS Lynx, HQ, Naval Officer-in-Charge, Dover & CO HMS Lynx, (10 July 1945 – April 1946)
  • , Bootle, Cumbria, England. FAA aircrew reception centre.
  • HMS Malabar, Bermuda
  • , Landing craft, Yarmouth, Isle of Wight
  • HMS Marlborough, Electrical training school, Eastbourne[23]
  • , Landing craft, Exbury House, Southampton
  • , Mauritius
  • HMS Martelo, HQ Naval Officer-in-Charge, Lowestoft, (1 October 1945 – April 1946)
  • , 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, Communications school, Petersfield, Hampshire
  • , 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, Landing craft base, Newhaven
  • HMS Nile, Alexandria, Egypt (1939–1946)
  • , 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
  • , Combined Operations landing craft signals training, Glenbranter Camp, Glenbranter, Strachur, Argyll
  • , HQ, Commander-in-Chief, the Nore, (RN base, Chatham) Chatham, Kent
  • , HQ, Admiral-Superintendent, Chatham Dockyard, Chatham, Kent
  • , HQ, Commodore-in-Command, Royal Naval Barracks, Chatham, Chatham, Kent
  • HMS Phœnicia, Manoel Island, Malta
  • , Tipner, Portsmouth, Hampshire
  • HMS President (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, Combined Operations training, Inverary, Argyll
  • HMS Return, Tokyo, Japan – now British Embassy in Tokyo[24][25]
  • , Holding base for RM landing craft personnel, Kitchener Camp, Richborough, Kent
  • HMS Rooke, Gibraltar
  • (also HMS Louisburg), Combined Operations, Roseneath, Dunbartonshire
  • HMS Royal Albert, Wireless Station (SIGINT), Cuxhaven, Germany. Post-WWII
  • HMS Royal Arthur, Petty Officers' training school, Butlins Skegness, later Corsham, Wiltshire[26]
  • 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
  • , Bognor Regis, Sussex, anti-aircraft firing range and gunnery training school[27]
  • HMS St Christopher, Coastal Forces training base, Fort William, Inverness-shire[28]
  • HMS St George, Gosport, Hampshire
  • , Commando training base 1943–1945, Burnham-on-Crouch, Essex
  • HMS St Vincent (1927–1969), Boys and Juniors Training Establishment, Gosport, Hampshire
  • HMS St Vincent (1992–1998), Communications centre, Whitehall, London
  • , 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
  • (formerly HMS Ferret), Eglinton, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland
  • , Bracklesham Bay and Birdham, near Chichester
  • HMS Seahawk, Coastal Forces training base, Ardrishaig, Argyll[29]
  • 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 Spartiate, Western Approaches Command, , Glasgow
  • , Tank landing craft repair base, Southampton
  • HMS Squid II, Landing craft squadron staff, Westcliff Hall Hotel, Hythe
  • , WWII training establishment for men who would otherwise be discharged, Kielder, Northumberland[30]
  • , Landing craft working-up base, Bo'ness
  • HMS Talbot, Manoel Island, Malta
  • HMS Tamar, Base operated from 1897 to 1997 at two locations in Hong Kong
  • , Hydrophone training school during World War I, Hawkcraig near Aberdour
  • 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[31]
  • , Combined Operations training, Poole, Dorset
  • HMS Uva, Diyatalawa, Ceylon
  • HMS Valkyrie II, Training establishment for HO ratings, Isle of Man[16]
  • HMS Varbel, X class submarine training, Port Bannatyne Hydropathic Hotel, Port Bannatyne, Isle of Bute, Scotland
  • , X class submarine advanced training, Ardtaraig House, Loch Striven, Argyll, Scotland
  • , Cowes Castle, , Isle of Wight
  • HMS Vernon, Portsmouth, Hampshire
  • HMS Wagtail, RNAS Ayr
  • HMS Warren, Combined Operations senior officer training, Largs, Ayrshire
  • HMS Wasp, Coastal Forces HQ, Lord Warden Hotel, Dover[32]
  • HMS Watchful, HQ, Flag Officer-in-Charge, Yarmouth, (14 April 1942 – July 1945)
  • , Flotilla training, Southend
  • HMS Westcliffe II, Combined Operations holding base for RM landing craft personnel, Burnham-on-Crouch, Essex
  • , Chatham, Kent
  • HMS Wildfire II (1939–1940), Combined Operations base, Sheerness
  • HMS Wildfire III (1940–1946), Combined Operations base, Sheerness
  • , 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[]

  • , former non airfield satellite of RNAS Lee-on-Solent (HMS Daedalus).
  • Seafield Park, a non airfield site near to RNAS Lee-on-Solent.
  • Yarmouth Roads, former fleet anchorage off Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England (1294–1815)

Royal Naval Armaments Depots

  • RNAD Broughton Moor, Cumbria, England
  • RNAD Crombie, Fife
  • , Salisbury, Wiltshire, England
  • RNAD Gosport including Priddy's Hard, Hampshire, England

Royal Naval Stores Depots

Include:[33]
  • /RNAW Almondbank/RNAW Perth, Almondbank, Perth & Kinross – now a Eurocopter installation.
  • , Warwickshire, England
  • , England. (1940–1995),[34]
  • , Teesside, England
  • , Llangennech, Carmarthenshire, Wales, (1945–1995) [35]
  • , Dunfermline, Scotland
  • RNSD Trecwn, Trecwn, Pembrokeshire, West Wales
  • , Woolston, Southampton, Hampshire, England

Royal Navy Aircraft Yards

  • RNAY Wroughton, Aircraft storage and maintenance unit, Wroughton, Swindon, England

See also[]

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Further reading[]

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

External links[]

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