List of Royal Navy shore establishments

Current Royal Navy shore establishments

Naval bases

• (HMNB Devonport, Devonport, Devon)
• (HMNB Portsmouth, Portsmouth)
• (HMNB Clyde, Faslane, Dunbartonshire)

Air stations

• (RNAS Culdrose, Cornwall)
• RNAS Predannack
• (RNAS Yeovilton, Somerset)
• RNAS Merryfield
• (formerly known as RNAS Prestwick, South Ayrshire)

Training establishments

• (Fareham, Hampshire)
• (Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, Devon)
• Includes Hindostan as static training ship
• (Whale Island, Portsmouth)
• (Torpoint, Cornwall)
• Includes Brecon as static training ship
• (Gosport, Hampshire)
• HMS Temeraire (Royal Navy School of Physical Training, Portsmouth)
• Defence Diving School (Horsea Island, Portsmouth)

Other

• , (Rosyth Dockyard, Fife)
• , Administrative aggregation of Royal Navy personnel based in the United States
• Institute of Naval Medicine (Alverstoke, Hampshire)
• Northwood Headquarters (Northwood, Hertfordshire, England), formerly HMS Warrior. Operational HQ for Commander Operations

Defence Munitions Centres

Formerly Royal Naval Armaments Depot and formally elements of Defence Equipment and Support.

• DM Beith
• RNAD Coulport
• DM Crombie
• DM Gosport

Testing establishments

• Vulcan Naval Reactor Test Establishment (HMS Vulcan) (Dounreay, Thurso, Caithness)
  • Currently being decommissioned, to be demolished by 2033

Overseas naval facilities

• HMS Jufair (Mina Salman Port, Bahrain)

• East Cove Military Port (Mare Harbour, Falkland Islands)

• Port of Gibraltar (Gibraltar)

• UK Joint Logistics Support Base (Duqm, Oman)

• British Defence Singapore Support Unit (Sembawang, Singapore)

• Diego Garcia (British Indian Ocean Territory)

Current Royal Marines establishments

Bases

• Commando Training Centre Royal Marines, Lympstone, Devon
• RM Stonehouse, Plymouth, Devon – Headquarters, UK Commando Force and 30 Commando (IX) Group
• RM Poole, Poole, Dorset – Special Boat Service and 148 (Meiktila) Commando Forward Observation Battery
• RM Condor, Arbroath, Angus – 45 Commando and 7 (Sphinx) Commando Battery
• RM Tamar, HMNB Devonport – 47 Commando (Raiding Group)
• RM Norton Manor, Taunton, Somerset – 40 Commando
• RM Bickleigh, Plymouth, Devon – 42 Commando
• RM Chivenor, Braunton, Devon – Commando Logistic Regiment and 24 Commando Royal Engineers
• RM Instow, Instow, Devon – 11 Amphibious Trials and Training Unit
• Camp Viking, Øverbygd, Norway – Arctic operations base for Littoral Response Group (North)

Significant RM presences are also located in

• HMNB Portsmouth
• HMNB Clyde – 43 Commando Fleet Protection Group
• MOD St Athan – A company sized contingent as part of SFSG
• RNAS Yeovilton – Commando Helicopter Force
• Bovington Camp – Viking Squadron
• Bardufoss Air Station – Commando Helicopter Force

Royal Marines Band Service

• HMS Nelson, HMNB Portsmouth – Band of HM Royal Marines School of Music
• HMS Raleigh – Band of HM Royal Marines Plymouth
• HMS Collingwood – Band of HM Royal Marines Collingwood
• MoD Caledonia – Band of HM Royal Marines Scotland
• Commando Training Centre Royal Marines – Band of HM Royal Marines Commando Training Centre

Royal Marines Reserve

• Royal Marines Reserve City of London, Wandsworth, London
  • Cambridge Detachment
  • Marlow Detachment
  • Portsmouth Detachment
• Royal Marines Reserve Bristol, Dorset House, Bristol
  • Lympstone Detachment
  • Plymouth Detachment
  • Poole Detachment
  • Cardiff Detachment
• Royal Marines Reserve Merseyside, Brunswick Dock, Liverpool
  • Birmingham Detachment
  • Leeds Detachment
  • Manchester Detachment
  • Nottingham Detachment
• Royal Marines Reserve Scotland, at HMS Caledonia, Rosyth Dockyard
  • Aberdeen Detachment
  • Dundee Detachment
  • Edinburgh Detachment
  • Glasgow Detachment
  • Belfast Detachment
  • Newcastle Detachment

Current Royal Naval Reserve units and establishments

The modern Royal Naval Reserve has fifteen Units (with 3 satellite units). These are:

• , Gateshead, Tyne & Wear, England
• , Cardiff, Wales
  • Tawe Division (Swansea)
• , Leeds, West Yorkshire, England
• , Glasgow, Scotland
• , Liverpool, England
• , Birmingham, England
• , Bristol, England
• , Chicksands, Bedfordshire, England
• , Lisburn, Northern Ireland
• , Whale Island, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England
• , by Tower Bridge, London, England
  • Medway Division (Rochester, Kent)
• , Rosyth, Fife, Scotland (Within the grounds of HMS Caledonia)
  • Tay Division (Dundee)
• , Nottingham, England
• , HMNB Devonport, Plymouth, Devon, England
• , Northwood, Middlesex, England

Former shore establishments

Former Imperial fortresses

• Admiralty House, Bermuda, Royal Naval Dockyard Bermuda (and HM Naval Base Bermuda (HMS Malabar), Royal Naval Air Station Bermuda, HMCS Somers Isles
• Royal Navy Dockyard, Gibraltar, HMS Rooke
• Admiralty House, Halifax, Royal Naval Dockyard, Halifax
• Admiralty House, Valletta, HM Dockyard Malta

Former naval bases

Main article: Royal Navy Dockyard

• HMNB Rosyth, (Fife, UK)
• HMNB Chatham (Kent, UK)
• Woolwich Dockyard
• Deptford Dockyard
• Queenstown
• Portland Dockyard
• Scapa Flow
• Pembroke Dockyard
• Sheerness Dockyard
• Simon's Town Dockyard
• Sihanoukville Dockyard
• Trincomalee Dockyard
• Kingston Royal Naval Dockyard
• Amherstburg Royal Naval Dockyard
• Esquimalt Royal Navy Dockyard
• Penetanguishene Naval Yard
• Naval Shipyards, York (Upper Canada)

Former air stations

Main article: List of air stations of the Royal Navy

• RNAS Stretton, Cheshire, 1942-1958
• HMS Condor RNAS Arbroath, Angus, Scotland, 1940-1970
• HMS Corncrake RNAS Ballyhalbert, County Down, Northern Ireland, 1945-1946
• HMS Daedalus (previously HMS Ariel 1959 - 1965) RNAS Lee-on-Solent, Lee-on-the-Solent, Hampshire, England
• RNAS Henstridge, Somerset, 1943-1958
• HMS Fulmar RNAS Lossiemouth Lossiemouth, Moray 1946 -1972
• RNAS Hinstock, Shropshire, 1942–1947
• , three naval air stations were commissioned as Goldcrest, RNAS Angle, RNAS Dale and RNAS Brawdy, in Pembrokeshire, Wales
• 1942-1948, RNAS Charlton Horethorne, Somerset
• RNAS Culham, Oxfordshire, 1944-1954
• HMS Hornbill II, RNAS Beccles, Suffolk, 1945-1953
• HMS Jackdaw, RNAS Crail, Fife, 1940-1947
• , RNAS Dunino, Dunino Kingsbarns Fife Satellite airfield of Crail, 1942-1946
• , World War II Royal Naval Air Station at Worthy Down, Hampshire
• HMS Merlin, Fife 1917–1959 RNAS Donibristle (also known as RAF Donibristle)
• HMS Nightjar, RNAS Inskip (also known as HMS Inskip)
• , RNAS Anthorn
• HMS Osprey, naval air station, (Portland, Dorset, England) ASDIC training; Flag Officer Sea Training; RNAS Portland (Lynx helicopter)
• , Angus, Scotland, 1943 - 1949, RNAS East Haven
• HMS Peregrine RNAS Ford, Sussex
• HMS Raven, Hampshire, England, RNAS Eastleigh in
• , Royal Naval Air Station Burscough, Lancashire, England
• , Grimsetter, Kirkwall, Orkney, RNAS Grimsetter
• RNAS Abbotsinch, Renfrewshire, Scotland
• , Gosport Hampshire, RNAS Gosport. Now
• County Down, Northern Ireland, Royal Naval Air Station Maydown, 1943-1947
• HMS Sparrowhawk, Royal Naval Air Station Hatston, Kirkwall, Orkney, 1939 - 1948
• HMS Tern, Twatt Orkney RNAS Twatt
• HMS Urley, Second World War flying station on the Isle of Man, RNAS Ronaldsway.
• HMS Vulture Royal Naval Air Station St Merryn (later HMS Curlew 1952-56), Cornwall, 1937-1952

Former Royal Naval Hospitals

Main article: Royal Naval Hospital

• RNH Bermuda.
• RNH Bighi, Malta
• RNH Gibraltar, Gibraltar
• RNH Gillingham, in Medway, Kent
• RNH, Convalescent Hospital, Great Malvern 1915-1919
• , in London
• RNH Haslar, Gosport, England
• RNH Mauritius
• RNH Mtarfa, Malta
• RNH Plymouth, known as Stonehouse, Devonport, England
• RNH Portland, Dorset.
• RNH Simon's Town, South Africa
• Royal Naval Hospital (Hong Kong) – now Ruttonjee Hospital in Hong Kong, China
• RNH Trincomalee, Trincomalee, Sri Lanka (Ceylon)

Former shore bases

A to D

• , Tilbury
• , the bombed-out Supermarine factory, Woolston, Southampton
• , Base depot ship, Simon's Town, South Africa
• , Coastal Forces Motor Launch (ML) and Steam Gun Boat base, Newhaven, East Sussex
• , Combined Operations base, Folkestone
• , Headquarters of 9th Submarine Flotilla (1940–1946), Dundee
• , listening station of the Far East Combined Bureau, Colombo, Ceylon
• (later ), Combined Training Centre, Castle Toward, Toward, Argyll
• , Combined Operations Landing Craft Training Establishment, Boston, Lincolnshire
• , Combined Operations base and training establishment, Fremington Camp, Fremington, Devon
• HMS Appledore II, Combined Operations base, Ilfracombe
• (formerly ), RNAS Worthy Down, Winchester, Hampshire
• , Royal Naval Aircraft Training Establishment, Culcheth, Warrington, Cheshire
• HMS Armanillo, Combined Operations RN Beach Commando training centre, Glenfinnart
• HMS Asbury, shore based transit accommodation, Asbury Park, New Jersey
• HMS Atlantic Isle, U-boat monitoring station, Tristan da Cunha during WWII
• , Coastal Forces MLs and storage, RN Dockyard, Portland
• HMS Avalon, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
• , HQ of Flag Officer Harwich and Coastal Forces base (1939–1946), Harwich
• HMS Baldur (also HMS Baldur II), Accommodation and accounting, Iceland
• HMS Beaver, HQ, Flag Officer-in-Charge, Humber, (1 October 1940 – July 1945) – (base A.O. at Grimsby)
• HMS Beaver II, Coastal Forces MLs, Immingham
• , Coastal Forces MLs working up base, Weymouth (1942–1943), then Holyhead, Wales (1943–1945)
• , Coastal Forces MTBs and MGBs, Boomer Hall, Felixstowe, Suffolk
• , Portsmouth, Hampshire
• , Trinidad
• HMS Birnbeck, Secret weapons research and testing (1941–1946), Birnbeck Pier, Weston-super-Mare
• HMS Bluebird III, (formerly HMS Allenby, possibly), Folkestone
• , Naval Police Patrol HQ, Portland, Dorset
• HMS Britannia III, Coastal Forces Motor Torpedo Boat & Motor Gun Boats, Dartmouth
• (formerly ), Combined Operations landing craft crew training, Castle Toward, Toward, Argyll
• HMS Cabbala, Training establishment for WRNS W/T operators, at Lowton near Warrington
• , Rosyth, Fife
• , Wembury, Devon
• , Coastal Forces MLs, Belfast
• , Gosport, Hampshire
• , Haslemere, Surrey
• (formerly ), Wetherby, Yorkshire
• , Yeadon, West Yorkshire
• , Coastal Forces MTBs & MGBs, Dartmouth
• , Coastal Forces MLs, Leith
• (formerly RNAS Donibristle/), Rosyth, Fife
• HMS Copra, Combined Operations Pay, Ratings and Accounts, The Moorings, Largs
• , Landing Craft training base, River Hamble, Hampshire
• , Royal Naval Reserve base, Greenock, Inverclyde,
• , Royal Naval Reserve base, Inverkip, Inverclyde,
• HMS Dartmouth II, Coastal Forces MTBs, MGBs & MLs, Dartmouth
• , Torpedo school, Devonport, Devon
• , Fleet Maintenance Base, Devonport
• I, HQ for tank landing craft training, Troon, Ayrshire
• HMS Dinosaur II, Landing craft and work-up base, Irvine, Ayrshire
• HMS Dorlin, Combined Operations RN Beach Signals and Royal Signals sections battle training, Dorlin House, Acharacle, Argyll
• , Gosport, Hampshire
• , former location of the Maritime Warfare School, Southwick, Hampshire
• , Basic Training Establishment, Malvern, 1944–1945. The Telecommunications Research Establishment moved into Duke in 1946 (renamed in turn the Radar Research Establishment, the Royal Radar Establishment and the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment) and is now a QinetiQ research site.
• I, Holding and training base for RN Beach Commandos, Gailes Camp, Auchengate, Troon, Ayrshire
• HMS Dundonald II, Combined Signal School (CSS), Auchingate, Troon, Ayrshire

E to K

• , Naval HQ, Fort St Angelo, Birgu, Malta
• (later HMS Sea Eagle), Convoy escort base and anti-submarine training, Londonderry, Northern Ireland
• , Coastal Forces MTBs, MGBs & MLs, Ramsgate
• , artificer and engineer training (1848–1983), Torpoint, Cornwall
• HMS Fledgling/RNAS Mill Meece. Training establishment for WRNS Air Mechanics (Ordnance) engineers, Mill Meece, Staffordshire
• HMS Flora III, Coastal Forces MLs, Invergordon, Scotland
• , HQ of Mobile Naval Air Bases during World War II, Ludham then Middle Wallop. RNAS Kai Tak from 1947.
• HMS Flowerdown, Y-station at RAF Flowerdown
• HMS Foliot I, Landing craft accounting base, Plymouth
• HMS Foliot III, Combined Operations holding base, Buckleigh, Plymouth
• , HF receiver station, Nidderdale, Harrogate
• HMS Forte IV, Coastal Forces MLs, Falmouth
• , Command and radar plotting centre, Newhaven
• HMS Forward II (later HMS Aggressive), Coastal Forces MTBs, Newhaven
• , Coastal Forces MTBs & MLs, Lerwick, Scotland
• , Boys' Training Establishment, Shotley, Ipswich, Suffolk
• WWII training establishment, Butlin's Pwllheli holiday camp, Caernarfonshire
• HMS Golden Hind, WW2 RN Barracks, Sydney, Australia
• HMS Gosling, Royal Naval Air Establishment, Risley, Warrington, Cheshire, was a collection of 5 camps responsible for various aspects of training FAA personnel
• , Auxiliary Patrol base, Lerwick, Shetland
• , Rye
• , Algiers
• , Radar training establishment, near Dale, Pembrokeshire
• , Landing craft, Exbury House, Hampshire
• HMS "Hawke", a temporary naval training school based within part of the Borstal Institution, 1940-46
• , Landing craft training, Brightlingsea
• , Scapa Flow diversionary anchorage, 1939–40, Arctic convoys concentration point, 1942–44, Loch Ewe
• , Trincomalee, Ceylon
• , Coastal Forces Depot MTB, Gosport, Hampshire
• , WWI base at Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire
• , Inskip, Preston, Lancashire
• , RNAS Crail, Fife
• , Combined Operations Beach Training Establishment, Glen Caladh, Nr Tighnabruaich, Argyll
• , Bahrain
• (later HMS Ariel), Royal Naval Air Station and General Service Establishment, Worthy Down, near Winchester, England
• , WWII RNVR officer training centre, Hove, Sussex

L to R

• , Colombo, Ceylon
• , Combined Operations landing craft base, Shoreham
• , Combined Operations officer training, Inverailort House, Lochailort, Inverness-shire
• , Fleet Minesweeper base, Port Edgar, South Queensferry
• (also HMS Roseneath), Combined Operations, Roseneath, Dunbartonshire
• HMS Lynx, HQ, Naval Officer-in-Charge, Dover & CO HMS Lynx, (10 July 1945 – April 1946)
• , Bootle, Cumbria, England. FAA aircrew reception centre.
• , Bermuda
• , Landing craft, Yarmouth, Isle of Wight
• , Electrical training school, Eastbourne
• , Landing craft, Exbury House, Hampshire
• , Mauritius
• HMS Martelo, HQ Naval Officer-in-Charge, Lowestoft, (1 October 1945 – April 1946)
• , Landing craft and Fleet Air Arm, Puckpool, Ryde, Isle of Wight
• , Lews Castle, Stornoway, Western Isles
• , Communications Training Centre, Coventry
• , Communications school, Petersfield, Hampshire
• , Great Yarmouth
• HMS Minos, HQ Naval Officer-in-Charge, Lowestoft, (5 May 1942 – 1 October 1945)
• , Combined Training HQ, Largs, Ayrshire
• HMS Monck, Combined Operations Carrier Training, Port Glasgow
• HMS Monck, Roseneath, Dunbartonshire
• HMS Monck, HQ Flag Officer Greenock, Greenock
• HMS Nemo, HQ Naval Officer-in-Charge, Brightlingsea, (June 1940 – May 1945)
• , Landing craft base, Newhaven
• , Alexandria, Egypt (1939–1946)
• , Anti-submarine warfare training from early 1940, Campbeltown, Argyll
• (HMS Northney I, HMS Northney II, HMS Northney III and HMS Northnney IV), Landing craft training base, Hayling Island
• HMS Osprey, (from January 1941), Asdic training, advanced courses for officers, Dunoon, Argyll
• , RNAS Fearn, Fearn, Ross-shire
• , Combined Operations landing craft signals training, Glenbranter Camp, Glenbranter, Strachur, Argyll
• , HQ, Commander-in-Chief, the Nore, (RN base, Chatham) Chatham, Kent
• , HQ, Admiral-Superintendent, Chatham Dockyard, Chatham, Kent
• , HQ, Commodore-in-Command, Royal Naval Barracks, Chatham, Chatham, Kent
• HMS Phœnicia, Manoel Island, Malta
• , Tipner, Portsmouth, Hampshire
• (parts later spun out as HMS St Vincent), Admiralty accounting base, Furse House, 37 Queen's Gate Terrace, London SW7
• HMS President II, HQ, Liaison Officer for Naval Reserve and Merchant Navy Duties, London, (8 February 1938 – August 1939)
• , Lyness, Orkney
• , Kirkwall, Orkney
• HMS Queen Charlotte WWII land-based gunnery school, Shore Rd., Ainsdale Southport, Lancashire
• , Combined Operations training, Inverary, Argyll
• HMS Return, Tokyo, Japan – now British Embassy in Tokyo
• , Holding base for RM landing craft personnel, Kitchener Camp, Richborough, Kent
• , Gibraltar
• (also HMS Louisburg), Combined Operations, Roseneath, Dunbartonshire
• , Wireless Station (SIGINT), Cuxhaven, Germany. Post-WWII
• , Petty Officers' training school, Butlins Skegness, later Corsham, Wiltshire
• , Wireless Station (SIGINT), Cuxhaven, Germany. Post-WWII
• Royal Naval College, Greenwich, London

S to Z

• , Naval HQ, Fort St Angelo, Birgu, Malta
• , Bognor Regis, Sussex, anti-aircraft firing range and gunnery training school
• , Coastal Forces training base, Fort William, Inverness-shire
• HMS St George, Gosport, Hampshire
• , Commando training base 1943–1945, Burnham-on-Crouch, Essex
• (1927–1969), Boys and Juniors Training Establishment, Gosport, Hampshire
• (1992–1998), Communications centre, Whitehall, London
• , RNR Communications Training Centre, Salford
• , RNAS Abbotsinch, Abbotsinch, Glasgow
• , Basic training, 1942, from 1959 RNR Rosyth, Butlin's Ayr, South Ayrshire
• (formerly ), Eglinton, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland
• , Bracklesham Bay and Birdham, near Chichester
• HMS Seahawk, Coastal Forces training base, Ardrishaig, Argyll
• (Singapore Naval Base), was the Royal Navy's biggest dockyard and its base of operations in the Far East from 1939 until 1971. (1945–1971) was the barracks next to the naval base, while the nearby was a RN Air Station.
• , Aden
• , RNAS Hatston, Orkney, Scotland
• , Western Approaches Command, St Enoch's Hotel, Glasgow
• , Tank landing craft repair base, Southampton
• HMS Squid II, Landing craft squadron staff, Westcliff Hall Hotel, Hythe
• , WWII training establishment for men who would otherwise be discharged, Kielder, Northumberland
• , Landing craft working-up base, Bo'ness
• HMS Talbot, Manoel Island, Malta
• , Base operated from 1897 to 1997 at two locations in Hong Kong
• , Hydrophone training school during World War I, Hawkcraig near Aberdour
• , RNAS Twatt, Orkney, Scotland
• , Royal Naval Engineering College, Keyham and Manadon, Plymouth, Devon
• HMS Tormentor, Landing craft operational base, Hamble, Southampton
• HMS Tormentor II Training camp, Cowes, Isle of Wight
• HMS Tullichewan (previously HMS Spartiate II), Holding base for Combined Operations, Tullichewan Castle Camp, Balloch, Loch Lomond, Scotland
• , Combined Operations training, Poole, Dorset
• , Diyatalawa, Ceylon
• HMS Valkyrie, Training establishment for HO ratings, Isle of Man
• , X class submarine training, Port Bannatyne Hydropathic Hotel, Port Bannatyne, Isle of Bute, Scotland
• , X class submarine advanced training, Ardtaraig House, Loch Striven, Argyll, Scotland
• HMS Vectis (shore establishment), Cowes Castle, Cowes, Isle of Wight
• , Portsmouth, Hampshire
• , RNAS Ayr
• , Combined Operations senior officer training, Largs, Ayrshire
• , Coastal Forces HQ, Lord Warden Hotel, Dover
• HMS Watchful, HQ, Flag Officer-in-Charge, Yarmouth, (14 April 1942 – July 1945)
• , Flotilla training, Southend
• HMS Westcliffe II, Combined Operations holding base for RM landing craft personnel, Burnham-on-Crouch, Essex
• , Chatham, Kent
• HMS Wildfire II (1939–1940), Combined Operations base, Sheerness
• HMS Wildfire III (1940–1946), Combined Operations base, Sheerness
• , Landing craft base, Ipswich
• HMS Yeoman, HQ, Flag Officer-in-Charge, London, (3 February 1942 – July 1945)
• HMS Yeoman, HQ, Naval Officer-in-Charge, London, (1-30, April, 1946)

Other

• Bedhampton Camp, former non airfield satellite of RNAS Lee-on-Solent (HMS Daedalus).

• Seafield Park, a non airfield site near to RNAS Lee-on-Solent. Royal Naval Armaments Depots Main article: Royal Naval Armaments Depot

• RNAD Broughton Moor, Cumbria, England

• RNAD Crombie, Fife

• RNAD Dean Hill, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England

• RNAD Gosport including Priddy's Hard, Hampshire, England Royal Naval Stores Depots : Include:

• RNSD Almondbank/RNAW Almondbank/RNAW Perth, Almondbank, Perth & Kinross – now a Eurocopter installation.

• RNSD Coventry, Warwickshire, England

• RNSD Copenacre, England. (1940–1995),

• RNSD Eaglescliffe, Teesside, England

• RNSD Llangennech, Llangennech, Carmarthenshire, Wales, (1945–1995)

• RNSD Lathalmond, Dunfermline, Scotland

• RNSD Trecwn, Trecwn, Pembrokeshire, West Wales

• RNSD Woolston, Woolston, Southampton, Hampshire, England Royal Navy Aircraft Yards

• RNAY Wroughton, Aircraft storage and maintenance unit, Wroughton, Swindon, England

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