Gibraltar

Gibraltar has long been a major strategic asset for the Royal Navy.

The station limits were decreed in 1913 as being:

• North: the South shore of Europe
• West: 5 degrees West longitude
• South: the North shore of Africa
• West: 6 degrees West longitude

Senior Officers

Dates of appointment given:

• Captain Augustus Phillimore, 17 October, 1870 – 17 January, 1874^{[Fact Check]}
• Captain William H. Edye, 1 January, 1878
• Captain Edmund R. Fremantle, 10 January, 1881 – 9 November, 1881
• Captain Claude E. Buckle, 20 August, 1889 – 4 February, 1892
• Captain Atwell P. MacL. Lake, 7 January, 1892 – 20 January, 1895
• Captain James A. T. Bruce, 20 January, 1895 – January, 1898
• Captain Charles C. Drury, 20 January, 1898 – 11 October, 1899
• Vice-Admiral Sir William A. D. Acland, Bart., 1 October, 1902 – 9 July, 1904
• Rear-Admiral Sir Edward Chichester, Bart., 10 June, 1904 – 11 August, 1908
• Rear-Admiral Sir James E. C. Goodrich, 11 August, 1906 – 27 September, 1909
• Rear-Admiral Frederick S. Pelham, 27 September, 1909 – 25 October, 1912
• Vice-Admiral Frederic E. E. Brock, 20 September, 1912 – 2 November, 1915
• Vice-Admiral Bernard Currey, 21 September, 1915 – 19 June, 1917
• Vice-Admiral Sir Heathcoat S. Grant, 19 June, 1917 – 14 July, 1919
• Rear-Admiral Reginald Y. Tyrwhitt, 5 July, 1919
• Rear-Admiral Henry B. Pelly, 17 December, 1920 – 7 February, 1922  (and as Admiral Superintendent, Gibraltar Yard)
• Rear-Admiral Walter W. Ellerton, 2 January, 1923 – 7 March, 1925
• Rear-Admiral Richard G. A. W. Stapleton-Cotton, 7 March, 1925 – 12 March, 1927  (and as Admiral Superintendent of H.M. Dockyard, Gibraltar)
• Rear-Admiral Cyril S. Townsend, 12 March, 1927 – April, 1929  (and as Admiral Superintendent of H.M. Dockyard, Gibraltar)
• Rear-Admiral Berwick Curtis, 22 March, 1929 – 30 March, 1931
• Rear-Admiral Thomas N. James, 20 March, 1931 – 2 May, 1933
• Rear-Admiral Francis M. Austin, 2 May, 1933 – 14 April, 1935
• Rear-Admiral James M. Pipon, 20 April, 1935 – 23 April, 1937
• Rear-Admiral Alfred E. Evans, 23 April, 1937 – 23 May, 1939
• Commodore, Second Class Albert J. Robertson, 26 June, 1941 – 19 August, 1943
• Commodore, Second Class Hugh R. Marrack, 19 August, 1943 – 1 July, 1945
• Vice-Admiral Victor A. C. Crutchley, 14 January, 1945 – January, 1947
• Vice-Admiral Ernest R. Archer, January, 1947 – July, 1948

Also, William Henry Edye and Claude Edward Buckle at some point.^{[Fact Check]}

King's Harbour Master

Dates of appointment given:

• Commander Arthur L. Ashby, 17 June, 1919 – 1 October, 1921
• Commander Cuthbert D. Longstaff, 1 October, 1921 – October, 1923  (and as Deputy Superintendent and Commander of Yard)
• Commander Walter C. Tancred, 27 October, 1927 – 11 November, 1929  (and as Deputy Superintendent and Commander of Yard)
• Commander Thomas M. Brounger, 11 November, 1929^[Inference] – September, 1931  (and as Deputy Superintendent and Commander of Yard)
• Commander Claud A. Merriman, 4 September, 1931 – August, 1934  (vice Brounger)
• Lieutenant-Commander Frank G. L. Bullock, 11 April, 1932 – November, 1934  (and as Superintendent of Charts and Chronometer Department)
• Commander Cyril W. A. C. Hamley, 24 July, 1936  (and as Deputy Superintendent)
• Acting Captain Eric D. Brooke, 11 April, 1940 – 1 May, 1942  (and as Deputy Superintendent)
• Acting Captain Cecil H. Lush, 1 May, 1942 – 1 March, 1944  (and as Deputy Superintendent)

Assistant King's Harbour Master

Dates of appointment given:

• Lieutenant-Commander Cradock W. C. J. Nowell, 13 April, 1922 – July, 1924  (and for Chronometer Department)

Boom Defence Officer

Dates of appointment given:

• Acting Commander Colin R. St. G. Tucker, 4 August, 1942 – 4 September, 1942

In Command, Gibraltar R.N.A.S. Station

• Squadron Commander Arthur B. Gaskell, 25 February, 1916 – 28 February, 1917

In Command, Reserve Destroyers

• Lieutenant-Commander Kenneth L. Campbell, 28 April, 1930
• Lieutenant-Commander John R. P. Thompson, July, 1932 – 17 November, 1934  (vice Campbell)

See Also

• Plan of Dockyard c. 1908 at GWPDA.org