Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth
| Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth | |
,_stern,_Portsmouth,_England-LCCN2002708062.jpg) Le HMS Victory. | |
| Création | 1697 |
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| Dissolution | 1969 |
| Pays |  Royaume d'Angleterre.svg){kind=small} Grande-Bretagne.svg){kind=small} Royaume-Uni
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| Branche |  Royal Navy
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| Type | Flotte |
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Le Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth (en français : Commandant en chef, Portsmouth) était un officier supérieur de la Royal Navy britannique. Portsmouth Command était le nom donné aux unités, établissements côtiers et personnels opérant sous ses ordres.
Histoire
La présence d'un amiral commandant à Portsmouth est attestée à partir de 1697, mais le premier Flag Officer à avoir été nommé responsable de la base de Portsmouth est le contre-amiral Sir John Moore, en 1766[1]. Le commandement s'étendait alors le long de la côte sud de l'Angleterre entre Newhaven dans l'East Sussex et l'île de Portland dans le Dorset[2]. En 1889, le Commander-in-Chief prend le HMS Victory comme navire amiral[3].
Pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, le quartier général du commandement est basé à Fort Southwick[4]. Le poste de Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth fusionne avec celui de Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth en 1969 au profit du poste de Commander-in-Chief, Naval Home Command (CINCNAVHOME)[1].
Les postes de Second Sea Lord et de Commander-in-Chief Naval Home Command sont réunis en 1994 dans une volonté de rationalisation des British Armed Forces à la fin de la guerre froide[5].
Commanders-in-Chief
Les Commanders-in-Chief ont été, par ordre chronologique[6],[1],[7] :
Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth
- 1757 - 1766 Admiral Sir Francis Holburne
- 1766 - 1769 Admiral Sir John Moore
- 1769 - 1771 Admiral Sir Francis Geary
- 1771 - 1774 Admiral Thomas Pye
- 1774 - 1777 Admiral Sir James Douglas
- 1777 - 1783 Admiral Thomas Pye
- 1783 - 1786 Admiral John Montagu
- 1786 - 1789 Admiral Viscount Hood
- 1789 - 1792 Admiral Robert Roddam
- 1792 - 1793 Admiral Viscount Hood
- 1793 - 1799 Admiral Sir Peter Parker
- 1799 - 1803 Admiral Mark Milbanke
- Mar - Jun 1803 Admiral Lord Gardner
- 1803 - 1809 Admiral Sir George Montagu
- 1809 - 1812 Admiral Sir Roger Curtis
- 1812 - 1815 Admiral Sir Richard Bickerton
- 1815 - 1818 Admiral Sir Edward Thornbrough
- 1818 - 1821 Admiral Sir George Campbell
- 1821 - 1824 Admiral Sir James Hawkins-Whitshed
- 1824 - 1827 Admiral Sir George Martin
- 1827 - 1830 Admiral Sir Robert Stopford
- 1830 - 1833 Admiral Sir Thomas Foley
- 1833 - 1836 Admiral Sir Thomas Williams
- 1836 - 1839 Admiral Sir Philip Durham
- Apr - Nov 1839 Admiral Charles Elphinstone Fleeming
- 1839 - 1842 Admiral Sir Edward Codrington
- 1842 - 1845 Admiral Sir Charles Rowley
- 1845 - 1848 Admiral Sir Charles Ogle
- 1848 - 1851 Admiral Sir Thomas Capel
- 1851 - 1852 Admiral Sir Thomas Briggs
- 1852 - 1856 Admiral Sir Thomas Cochrane
- 1856 - 1859 Admiral Sir George Seymour
- 1859 - 1660 Admiral Sir William Bowles
- 1860 - 1863 Admiral Sir Henry Bruce
- 1863 - 1866 Admiral Sir Michael Seymour
- 1866 - 1869 Admiral Sir Thomas Pasley
- 1869 - 1872 Admiral Sir James Hope
- 1872 - 1875 Admiral Sir Rodney Mundy
- 1875 - 1878 Admiral Sir George Elliot
- 1878 - 1879 Admiral Sir Edward Fanshawe
- 1879 - 1882 Admiral Sir Alfred Ryder
- 1882 - 1886 Admiral Sir Geoffrey Hornby
- 1886 - 1888 Admiral Sir George Willes
- 1888 - 1891 Admiral Sir John Commerell
- 1891 - 1894 Admiral Comte de Clanwilliam
- 1894 - 1897 Admiral Sir Nowell Salmon
- 1897 - 1900 Admiral Sir Michael Culme-Seymour
- 1900 - 1903 Admiral Sir Charles Hotham
- 1903 - 1904 Admiral Sir John Fisher
- 1905 - 1907 Admiral Sir Archibald Douglas
- 1907 - 1908 Admiral Sir Day Bosanquet
- 1908 - 1910 Admiral Sir Arthur Fanshawe
- 1910 - 1911 Admiral Sir Assheton Curzon-Howe
- 1911 - 1912 Admiral Sir Arthur Moore
- 1912 - 1916 Admiral of the Fleet Sir Hedworth Meux
- 1916 - 1919 Admiral Sir Stanley Colville
- 1919 - 1920 Admiral Sir Cecil Burney
- 1920 - 1923 Admiral Sir Somerset Gough-Calthorpe
- 1923 - 1926 Admiral Sir Sydney Fremantle
- 1926 - 1929 Admiral Sir Osmond Brock
- 1929 - 1931 Admiral of the Fleet Sir Roger Keyes
- 1931 - 1934 Admiral Sir Arthur Waistell
- 1934 - 1936 Admiral of the Fleet Sir John Kelly
- 1936 - 1937 Admiral Sir William Fisher
- 1937 - 1939 Admiral of the Fleet Comte de Cork et Orrery
- 1939 - 1942 Admiral Sir William James
- 1942 - 1945 Admiral Sir Charles Little
- 1945 - 1947 Admiral Sir Geoffrey Layton
- 1947 - 1948 Admiral Lord Fraser of North Cape
- 1948 - 1950 Admiral of the Fleet Sir Algernon Willis
- 1950 - 1952 Admiral of the Fleet Sir Arthur Power
- 1952 - 1954 Admiral Sir John Edelsten
- 1954 - 1957 Admiral of the Fleet Sir George Creasy
- 1957 - 1959 Admiral Sir Guy Grantham
- 1959 - 1961 Admiral Sir Manley Power
- 1961 - 1963 Admiral Sir Alexander Bingley
- 1963 - 1965 Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods
- 1965 - 1966 Admiral Sir Varyl Begg
- 1966 - 1967 Admiral Sir Frank Hopkins
- 1967 - 1969 Admiral Sir John Frewen
Commander-in-Chief, Naval Home Command
- 1969 - 1970 Admiral Sir John Frewen
- 1970 - 1972 Admiral Sir Horace Law
- 1972 - 1974 Admiral Sir Andrew Lewis
- 1974 - 1975 Admiral Sir Derek Empson
- 1975 - 1976 Admiral Sir Terence Lewin
- 1976 - 1979 Admiral Sir David Williams
- 1979 - 1981 Admiral Sir Richard Clayton
- 1981 - 1983 Admiral Sir James Eberle
- 1983 - 1984 Admiral Sir Desmond Cassidi
- 1984 - 1987 Admiral Sir Peter Stanford
- 1987 - 1989 Admiral Sir Sandy Woodward
- 1989 - 1991 Admiral Sir Jeremy Black
- 1991 - 1993 Admiral Sir John Kerr
- 1993 - 1994 Admiral Sir Michael Layard
Notes et références
- (en) History in Portsmouth
- (en) Sea Your History
- (en) A Chronolgy of HMS Victory Royal Naval Museum
- (en) A.F. Capel, Commanding Canadians : the Second World War diaries of A.F.C. Layard, University of Columbia Press, 2005, (ISBN 978-0-7748-1193-4), p. 310 [lire en ligne]
- (en) Admiral Sir Michael Layard, KCB, CBE
- Whitaker's Almanacks 1869 - 1969
- William Loney RN
