Postwar
After the war, the Fleet was once again based at Singapore Naval Base. It took part in the Malayan Emergency and the Confrontation with Indonesia in the 1960s. By 1964 the fleet on station included HMS Victorious, HMS Centaur, HMS Bulwark, HMS Kent, HMS Hampshire, seventeen destroyers and frigates, some drawn from the Mediterranean, about ten minesweepers and five submarines.
The Flag Officer Second-in-Command Far East Fleet, for most of the postwar period a Rear Admiral, was based afloat, and tasked with keeping the fleet 'up to the mark operationally,' while the fleet commander, a Vice Admiral, ran the fleet programme and major items of administration 'including all provision for docking and maintenance' from his base in Singapore.
The Fleet was disbanded in 1971, and on 31 October 1971, the last day of the validity of the Anglo-Malayan Defence Agreement, the last Commander, Far East Fleet, Rear Admiral Anthony Troup, hauled down his flag.
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