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The Home Fleet was a fleet of the Royal Navy that operated from the United Kingdom's territorial waters from 1902 with intervals until 1967. In 1967, it was merged with the Mediterranean Fleet creatin
HMS Neptune leading the Home Fleet before the First World War
King George VI visiting the Home Fleet at Scapa Flow in March 1943
The Western Fleet was a fleet of the Royal Navy from June 1967 to 1971.
Home Fleet
…from the United Kingdom's territorial waters from 1902 with intervals until 1967. In 1967, it was merged with the Mediterranean Fleet creating the new Western Fleet. Before the First World War between 1902 and 1904 the Admiralty reorganised its ships in home waters into a permanent force called the Home Squadron…
The aircraft carrier HMS Eagle, Flagship of the Western Fleet