The Commander-in-Chief, Africa was the last title of a Royal Navy's formation commander located in South Africa from 1795 to 1939. Under varying titles, it was one of the longest-lived formations of t
The cruiser HMS Gibraltar, flagship of the Cape of Good Hope Station in the early 1900s
Admiralty House, Simonstown
The Commander-in-Chief South Atlantic was an operational commander of the Royal Navy from 1939. The South American area was added to his responsibilities in 1960, and the post disestablished in 1967.
Commander-in-Chief, Africa (Royal Navy)
…Plate. After the conclusion of that engagement the station ceased as a command operations center with the senior naval staff moving to the newly formed South Atlantic station headquartered at Freetown. The naval base remained as part of that command until 1957. In 1958 the British government handed over the facility to the…
HMS Bermuda, flagship of the Commander-in-Chief, South Atlantic in the early 1950s