SQUADRON | WHERE BASED | DEPOT SHIP OR SHORE PARENT |
1st | Malta | H.M.S. Forth [Depot Ship] Midstream Msida Creek Marsamxett Harbour |
2nd | Portland, Dorset | H.M.S. Maidstone [Depot Ship] Midstream Portland Harbour |
3rd | Rothesay, Isle of Bute, West Scotland | H.M.S. Adamant [Depot Ship] Midsteam Rothesay Bay |
4th | Sydney NSW Australia | H.M.A.S. Penguin [Garden Island] [Shore] |
5th | Gosport, Hampshire | H.M.S. Dolphin [Fort Blockhouse] [Shore] |
6th | Halifax Nova Scotia Canada | H.M.S. Ambrose [Halifax Dockyard] [Shore] |
7th | Singapore | H.M.S. Medway [Landing Craft Tank -LCT] Secured to Fleet Landing H.M.S. Terror |
SEPTEMBER 1939 | JANUARY 1942 | MAY 1944 | |||
FLOTILLA | WHERE BASED | FLOTILLA | WHERE BASED | FLOTILLA | WHERE BASED |
1st | Mediterranean Ports chiefly Malta | 1st | Mediterranean. Alexandria Egypt | 1st | Mediterranean. Malta |
2nd | Dundee Eastern Scotland | 2nd | Mediterranean. Malta | 2nd | Not Assigned |
3rd | Not Assigned | 3rd | Clyde Western Scotland | 3rd | Western Scotland. Holy Loch |
4th | China Station, chiefly Hong Kong | 4th | Not Assigned | 4th | Ceylon. Trincomalee |
5th | Portsmouth Hampshire | 5th | Portsmouth Hampshire | 5th | Portsmouth Hampshire |
6th | Blyth Northumberland | 6th | Blyth Northumberland | 6th | Blyth Northumberland |
7th | Freetown. Sierra Leone. West Africa | 7th | Western Approaches, Plymouth (Devonport)/Liverpool | 7th | Western Scotland. Rothesay Isle of Bute |
- | - | 8th | Mediterranean and Atlantic. Gibraltar | 8th | Ceylon. Trincomalee |
- | - | 9th | Dundee Eastern Scotland | 9th | Dundee Eastern Scotland |
- | - | - | - | 10th | Mediterranean. Maddalena. Sardinia |