The Reserve Fleet was a Royal Navy formation of decommissioned vessels which could be brought to a state of readiness at time of war.
Ships of the Royal Navy reserve fleet in Penarth Docks (1954)
Henry Oliver
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Admiral of the Fleet Sir Henry Francis Oliver, was a Royal Navy officer. After serving in the Second Boer War as a navigating officer in a cruiser on the Cape of Good Hope and West Coast of Africa Sta
1917 portrait by Francis Dodd
The cruiser HMS Niobe in which Oliver served during the Second Boer War
The battlecruiser Repulse, Oliver's flagship as commander of the 1st Battlecruiser Squadron in the last year of the First World War