Mediterranean Fleet - Commanders in Chief of The Mediterranean Fleet

Commanders in Chief of The Mediterranean Fleet

Commanders-in-Chief have included:

Commander-in-chief From To Flagship Note
Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Saunders January 1757 May 1757
Vice-Admiral Henry Osborn May 1757 April 1760
Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Saunders April 1760 1763
Vice-Admiral Augustus Hervey 1763 ?
Vice-Admiral Sir Richard Spry 1766 1769
Vice-Admiral Earl Howe 1770 c.1776
c.1776 1783
Vice-Admiral Sir John Lindsay 1783 1784
Vice-Admiral Phillips Cosby 1785 1789
1789 1792
Rear-Admiral Samuel Granston Goodall 1792 1793
Vice-Admiral Sir Samuel Hood February 1793 October 1794
Vice-Admiral Lord Hotham October 1794 November 1795
Vice-Admiral Lord Jervis 1796 1799
Vice-Admiral Lord Keith November 1799 1802
Vice-Admiral Lord Nelson May 1803 January 1805 Died after Battle of Trafalgar
Vice-Admiral Lord Collingwood 1805 1810
Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Cotton 1810 1811
Vice-Admiral Sir Edward Pellew 1811 1814
Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Penrose 1814 1815
Vice-Admiral Lord Exmouth 1815 1816
Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Penrose 1816 1818
Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas Fremantle 1818 1820
Vice-Admiral Sir Graham Moore 1820 1823
Vice-Admiral Sir Harry Burrard-Neale 1823 1826
Vice-Admiral Sir Edward Codrington 1826 1828
Vice-Admiral Sir Pulteney Malcolm 1828 1831
Vice-Admiral Sir Henry Hotham 30 March 1831 19 April 1833 Died 19 April 1833.
Vice-Admiral Sir Pulteney Malcolm 3 May 1833 18 December 1833
Vice-Admiral Sir Josias Rowley 18 December 1833 9 February 1837
Admiral Sir Robert Stopford 9 February 1837 14 October 1841
Vice-Admiral Sir Edward Owen 14 October 1841 27 February 1845
Vice-Admiral Sir William Parker 27 February 1845 13 July 1846 Parker was briefly First Naval Lord in July 1846 but requested permission to return to the Mediterranean on ground of his health
Vice-Admiral Sir William Parker 24 July 1846 17 January 1852
Rear-Admiral Sir James Dundas 17 January 1852 1854 Vice-Adm. 17 December 1852
Rear-Admiral Sir Edmund Lyons 1854 22 February 1858 Vice-Adm. 19 March 1857
Vice-Admiral Sir Arthur Fanshawe 22 February 1858 19 April 1860 Marlborough
Vice-Admiral Sir William Martin 19 April 1860 20 April 1863 Marlborough
Vice-Admiral Sir Robert Smart 20 April 1863 28 April 1866 Marlborough then Victoria
Vice-Admiral Lord Clarence Paget 28 April 1866 28 April 1869 Victoria then Caledonia
Vice-Admiral Sir Alexander Milne 28 April 1869 25 October 1870 Lord Warden Adm. 1 April 1870
Vice-Admiral Sir Hastings Yelverton 25 October 1870 13 January 1874 Lord Warden
Vice-Admiral Sir James Drummond 13 January 1874 15 January 1877 Lord Warden then Hercules
Vice-Admiral Sir Geoffrey Hornby 5 January 1877 5 February 1880 Alexandra Adm. 15 June 1879
Vice-Admiral Sir Beauchamp Seymour 5 February 1880 7 February 1883 Inconstant and Alexandra Adm. 6 May 1882
Vice-Admiral Lord John Hay 7 February 1883 5 February 1886 Alexandra Adm. 8 July 1884
Vice-Admiral H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh 5 February 1886 11 March 1889 Alexandra Adm. 18 October 1887
Vice-Admiral Sir Anthony Hoskins 11 March 1889 20 August 1891 Alexandra
Camperdown
Victoria 		Adm. 20 June 1891
Vice-Admiral Sir George Tryon 20 August 1891 22 June 1893 Victoria Died in commission; lost in Victoria
Admiral Sir Michael Culme-Seymour 29 June 1893 10 November 1896 Ramillies
Admiral Sir John Hopkins 10 November 1896 1 July 1899 Ramillies
Admiral Sir John Fisher 1 July 1899 1902 Renown
Admiral Sir Compton Domvile 1902 June 1905 Bulwark
Admiral Lord Charles Beresford 1 May 1905
6 June 1905		 February 1907 Bulwark
Admiral Sir Charles Drury 5 March 1907
27 March 1907		 1908 Queen
Admiral Sir Assheton Curzon-Howe 20 November 1908
20 November 1908		 1910 Exmouth
Admiral Sir Edmund Poë 30 April 1910
30 April 1910		 November 1912 Exmouth
Admiral Sir Berkley Milne 1 June 1912
12 June 1912		 27 August 1914 Inflexible
During World War I, the station was divided up in different ways at different times. There was an overall Allied Commander in Chief, who was from the French Navy and is not listed here. Post titles have been put in bold in the notes column.
Admiral Sir Somerset Gough-Calthorpe 26 August 1917 25 July 1919 Commander-in-Chief Mediterranean
Vice Admiral Sir John de Robeck 26 July 1919 14 May 1922 Iron Duke
Vice Admiral Sir Osmond Brock 15 May 1922 7 June 1925 Iron Duke Admiral 31 July 1924
Admiral Sir Roger Keyes 8 June 1925 7 June 1928 Warspite
Admiral Sir Frederick Field 8 June 1928 28 May 1930 Queen Elizabeth
Admiral Sir Ernle Chatfield 27 May 1930 31 October 1932 Queen Elizabeth
Admiral Sir William Fisher 31 October 1932 19 March 1936 Resolution later Queen Elizabeth
Admiral Sir Dudley Pound 20 March 1936 31 May 1939 Queen Elizabeth
During World War II, the Mediterranean Station was split between commands some of the time. Post titles in the notes column.
Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham 1 June 1939
 March 1942 Warspite
HMS St Angelo (base, Malta)
Warspite 		Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean Fleet. Vice-Admiral Cunningham was given acting rank of Admiral on 1 June 1930, and promoted to Admiral on 3 January 1941.
Admiral Sir Henry Harwood 22 April 1942 February 1943 Warspite
HMS Nile (base, Alexandria) 		Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean Fleet. Vice-Admiral Harwood was given acting rank of Admiral.
Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham 1 November 1942 20 February 1943 HMS Hannibal (base, Algiers) Naval Commander Expeditionary Force (NCXF) North Africa and Mediterranean
In the first half of 1943 the Mediterranean Fleet Command was split into a command of ships and a command of ports & naval bases:
Mediterranean Fleet: C-in-C Med Fleet, 15th Cruiser Squadron, Cdre. (D)
Levant: C-in-C Levant, Alexandria, Malta, Port Said, Haifa, Bizerta, Tripoli, Mersa Matruh, Benghazi, Aden, Bone, Bougie, Philippeville
Levant was renamed Eastern Mediterranean in late December 1943.
Admiral of the Fleet Sir Andrew Cunningham 20 February 1943 15 October 1943 HMS Hannibal (base, Algiers/Taranto) Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean Fleet.
Admiral Sir John Cunningham 15 October 1943 February 1946 HMS Hannibal (base, Algiers/Taranto) Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean Station & Allied Naval Commander Mediterranean
Admiral Sir John Cunningham 5 June 1943 August 1943 HMS Nile (base, Alexandria) Commander-in-Chief, Levant.
Vice Admiral Sir Algernon Willis temporary 14 October 1943 December 1943 HMS Nile (base, Alexandria) Commander-in-Chief, Levant.
Vice Admiral Sir Bernard Rawlings 28 December 1943 June 1944 HMS Nile (base, Alexandria) Flag Officer, Eastern Mediterranean. From 8 June 1944 Sir H. Bernard Rawlings
Admiral Sir Algernon Willis 1946 1948 HMS St Angelo (base, Malta)
Admiral Sir Arthur Power 1948 1950 HMS St Angelo (base, Malta) Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean
Admiral Sir John Edelsten 1950 1952 HMS St Angelo (base, Malta) Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean
Admiral Earl Mountbatten of Burma 1952 1954 HMS St Angelo (base, Malta) Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean
Admiral Sir Guy Grantham 10 Dec 1954 10 Apr 57 HMS St Angelo (base, Malta)
Vice Admiral Sir Ralph Edwards 10 Apr 57 11 Nov 58 HMS St Angelo (base, Malta)
Admiral Sir Charles Lambe 11 Nov 58 2 Feb 59 HMS Phoenicia (base, Malta)
Admiral Sir Alexander Bingley 2 Feb 59 30 Jun 61 HMS Phoenicia (base, Malta)
Admiral Sir Deric Holland-Martin 30 Jun 61 1 Feb 64 HMS Phoenicia (base, Malta)
Admiral Sir John Hamilton 1 Feb 1964 5 June 1967 HMS St Angelo (base, Malta)

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