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{{Short description|Formation of the Royal Navy, active from 1654 to 1967}}
{{For|the Mediterranean Fleets of other countries|List of Mediterranean fleets}}
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{{Use British English|date=October 2017}}
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|caption=The battleships {{HMS|Bulwark|1899|2}}, {{HMS|Renown|1895|2}} and {{HMS|Ramillies|1892|2}} at Malta in 1902
|dates=September 1654 – 5 June 1967
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|notable_commanders=[[Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood|Samuel Hood]], [[Horatio Nelson]], [[Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope|Andrew Cunningham]]
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The British '''Mediterranean Fleet''', also known as the '''Mediterranean Station''', was a [[military formation|formation]] of the [[Royal Navy]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Admiralty and Ministry of Defence: Mediterranean Station: Correspondence and Papers |url=http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C1830 |website=discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk |publisher=The National Archives, 1800–1964, ADM 121 |access-date=11 June 2018}}</ref> The Fleet was one of the most prestigious commands in the navy for the majority of its history, defending the vital sea link between the United Kingdom and the majority of the [[British Empire]] in the Eastern Hemisphere. The first Commander-in-Chief for the Mediterranean Fleet was the appointment of General at Sea [[Robert Blake (admiral)|Robert Blake]] in September 1654 (styled as Commander of the Mediterranean Fleet).<ref>{{cite book |last1=Davies |first1=J. D. |title=Pepys's Navy: Ships, Men and Warfare 1649–89 |date=2008 |publisher=Seaforth Publishing |location=Barnsley, England |isbn=9781783830220 |page=236 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1qe9AwAAQBAJ&q=robert+blake+commander+mediterranean+fleet&pg=PA236 |language=en |chapter=Strategy and Deployment}}</ref> The Fleet was in existence until 1967.

==Pre-Second World War==
[[File:Malta - Valletta - Triq Nofs-in-Nhar - National Museum of Fine Arts 05 ies.jpg|thumbnail|left|[[Admiralty House (Valletta)|Admiralty House]] in [[Valletta]], [[Malta]], official residence of the Commander-in-Chief from 1821 to 1961]]
[[File:The Order of Sailing in the Mediterranean fleet in 1842. (caricature) RMG PU4793.jpg|thumb|The Order of sailing in the Mediterranean fleet in 1842]]
The [[Royal Navy]] gained a foothold  in the Mediterranean Sea when [[Gibraltar]] was [[Capture of Gibraltar|captured]] by the British in 1704 during the [[War of Spanish Succession]], and formally allocated to Britain in the 1713 [[Treaty of Utrecht]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3528268.stm|title=Gibraltar and other empire leftovers|date=3 August 2004 |publisher=BBC|access-date=18 April 2014}}</ref> Though the British had maintained a naval presence in the Mediterranean before, the capture of [[Gibraltar]] allowed the British to establish their first naval base there. The British also used [[Port Mahon]], on the island of [[Menorca]], as a [[Port Mahon Dockyard|naval base]]. However, British control there was only temporary; Menorca changed hands numerous times, and was permanently ceded to Spain in 1802 under the [[Treaty of Amiens]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.britishempire.co.uk/maproom/minorca.htm|title=Minorca: Brief History|publisher=British Empire|access-date=18 April 2014}}</ref> In 1800, the British took [[Malta]], which was to be handed over to the [[Knights of Malta]] under the Treaty of Amiens. When the [[Napoleonic Wars]] resumed in 1803, the British kept Malta for use as a naval base. Following Napoleon's defeat, the British continued their presence in Malta, and turned it into the main base for the Mediterranean Fleet. Between the 1860s and 1900s, the British undertook a number of projects to improve the harbours and dockyard facilities, and Malta's harbours were sufficient to allow the entire fleet to be safely moored there.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://website.lineone.net/~remosliema/medfleet.htm |title=Indexes of men in the Mediterranean Fleet 1881 |website=Malta Family History}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.seayourhistory.org.uk/content/view/610/778/1/1/ |title=Malta |website=Sea Your History}}</ref>

In the last decade of the nineteenth century, the Mediterranean Fleet was the largest single [[squadron (naval)|squadron]] of the Royal Navy, with ten first-class battleships—double the number in the [[Channel Fleet]]—and a large number of smaller warships.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.generalist.org.uk/docs/navy1894.html |title=Commissioned ships of the Royal Navy |work=Sunlight Almanac |date=1895}}</ref>

On 22 June 1893, the bulk of the fleet, eight [[battleship]]s and three large [[cruiser]]s, were conducting their annual summer exercises off [[Tripoli, Lebanon|Tripoli]], [[Lebanon]], when the fleet's flagship, the battleship {{HMS|Victoria|1887|6}}, collided with the battleship {{HMS|Camperdown|1885|6}}. ''Victoria'' sank within fifteen minutes, taking 358 crew with her. [[Vice admiral (Royal Navy)|Vice-Admiral]] Sir [[George Tryon]], commander of the Mediterranean Fleet, was among the dead.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article8568833|title=Terrible Naval Disaster|work=The Argus|date=24 June 1893|publisher=Trove}}</ref>

Of the three original {{sclass|Invincible|battlecruiser|2}}s which entered service in the first half of 1908, two ({{HMS|Inflexible|1907|2}} and {{HMS|Indomitable|1907|2}}) joined the Mediterranean Fleet in 1914. They and {{HMS|Indefatigable|1909|2}} formed the nucleus of the fleet at the start of the [[First World War]] when British forces [[pursuit of Goeben and Breslau|pursued the German ships ''Goeben'' and ''Breslau'']].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Roberts|first1=John|title=Battlecruisers|date=1999|publisher=Naval Institute Press|location=Annapolis, MD.|isbn=1-55750-068-1|page=122}}</ref>

A recently modernised {{HMS|Warspite|03|2}} became the flagship of the [[Commander-in-Chief]] and [[Second-in-Command]], Mediterranean Fleet in 1926.<ref>{{cite book|last=Ballantyne|first=Iain|title=Warspite, From Jutland Hero to Cold War Warrior|publisher=Pen & Sword Maritime|location=Barnsley, UK|year=2013|isbn=978-1-84884-350-9|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5dNX612zp1gC|page=72}}</ref>

==Second World War==
{{main|Battle of the Mediterranean}}
[[History of Malta|Malta]], as part of the [[British Empire]] from 1814, was a shipping station and was the headquarters for the Mediterranean Fleet until the mid-1930s. Due to the perceived threat of air-attack from the Italian mainland, the fleet was moved to [[Alexandria]], [[Egypt]], shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.britishpathe.com/video/the-fleet-at-alexandria|title=The Fleet at Alexandria|publisher=British Pathe|access-date=18 April 2014}}</ref>

[[Sir Andrew Cunningham]] took command of the fleet from {{HMS|Warspite|03|2}} on 3 September 1939, and under him the major formations of the Fleet were the [[1st Battle Squadron]] ({{HMS|Warspite|03|2}}, {{HMS|Barham|04|2}}, and {{HMS|Malaya||2}}) [[1st Cruiser Squadron]] ({{HMS|Devonshire|39|2}}, {{HMS|Shropshire|73|2}}, and {{HMS|Sussex|96|2}}), [[3rd Cruiser Squadron]] ({{HMS|Arethusa|26|2}}, {{HMS|Penelope|97|2}}, {{HMS|Galatea|71|2}}), Rear Admiral [[John Tovey]], with the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th Destroyer Flotillas, and the aircraft carrier {{HMS|Glorious|77|2}}.<ref>{{cite web |first=Leo |last=Niehorster |url=http://niehorster.org/017_britain/39_navy/med-fleet.html |title=Mediterranean Fleet, 3 September 1939 |website=World War II Armed Forces}}</ref>

In 1940, the Mediterranean Fleet carried out a successful aircraft carrier attack on the [[Regia Marina|Italian Fleet]] at [[Battle of Taranto|Taranto by air]]. Other major actions included the [[Battle of Cape Matapan]] and the [[Battle of Crete]]. The Fleet had to block Italian and later German reinforcements and supplies for the [[North African Campaign]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.naval-history.net/WW2CampaignsRNMed.htm|title=British Navy in the Mediterranean|website=Naval-History.net|access-date=18 April 2014}}</ref>

==Post war==
[[File:Villa Portelli (1).jpg|thumb|Villa Portelli, official residence of the Commander-in-Chief from 1961 to 1967 (and then of Flag Officer Malta from 1967 until 1979).]]
In October 1946, {{HMS|Saumarez|G12|2}} hit a mine in the Corfu Channel, starting a series of events known as the [[Corfu Channel Incident]]. The channel was cleared in "Operation Recoil" the next month, involving 11 minesweepers under the guidance of {{HMS|Ocean|R68|2}}, two cruisers, three destroyers, and three frigates.<ref name="grove">{{cite book|last1=Grove|first1=Eric J.|title=Vanguard to Trident: British Naval Policy since World War II|date=1987|publisher=Naval Institute Press|location=Annapolis|isbn=978-0870215520}}</ref>{{rp|154}}

In May 1948, Sir [[Arthur Power]] took over as Commander-in-Chief Mediterranean, and in his first act arranged a show of force to discourage the crossing of Jewish refugees into [[Palestine (region)|Palestine]]. When later that year Britain pulled out of the [[Mandate for Palestine|British Mandate of Palestine]], ''Ocean'', four destroyers, and two frigates escorted the departing High Commissioner, aboard the cruiser {{HMS|Euryalus|42|2}}. The force stayed to cover the evacuation of British troops into the [[Haifa]] enclave and south via Gaza.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.britishpathe.com/video/evacuation-of-troops-from-haifa-aka-evacuation-fro|title=Evacuation Of Troops From Haifa AKA Evacuation|publisher=British Pathe|access-date=18 April 2014}}</ref>

From 1952 to 1967, the post of Commander in Chief Mediterranean Fleet was given a dual-hatted role as [[NATO]] [[Commander in Chief]] of [[Allied Forces Mediterranean]] in charge of all forces assigned to NATO in the Mediterranean Area. The British made strong representations within NATO in discussions regarding the development of the Mediterranean NATO command structure, wishing to retain their direction of NATO naval command in the Mediterranean to protect their [[sea lines of communication]] running through the Mediterranean to the Middle East and Far East.<ref name=maloney>{{cite thesis |first=Sean |last=Maloney |title=To Secure Command of the Sea |publisher=University of New Brunswick |date=1991 |pages=258–261}}</ref> When a NATO naval commander, Admiral [[Robert B. Carney]], C-in-C [[Allied Forces Southern Europe]], was appointed, relations with the incumbent British C-in-C, Admiral Sir [[John Edelsten]], were frosty. Edlesten, on making an apparently friendly offer of the use of communications facilities to Carney, who initially lacked secure communications facilities, was met with "I'm not about to play [[Faust]] to your [[Mephistopheles]] through the medium of communications!"{{r|maloney|page1=261}}

In 1956, ships of the fleet, together with the [[French Navy]], took part in the [[Suez War]] against [[Egypt]].<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://www.usnwc.edu/getattachment/8cde8808-9feb-46d8-95df-5eebc0e3891a/Suez,-1956--A-Successful-Naval-Operation-Compromis|title=Suez, 1956: A Successful Naval Operation Compromised by Inept Political Leadership|first=Michael H.|last=Coles|journal=Naval War College Review|volume=59|issue=4|date=Autumn 2006|access-date=18 April 2014}}</ref>

From 1957 to 1959, Rear Admiral [[Sir Charles Madden, 2nd Baronet|Charles Madden]] held the post of [[Flag Officer, Malta]], with responsibilities for three squadrons of minesweepers, an amphibious warfare squadron, and a flotilla of submarines stationed at the bases around Valletta Harbour. In this capacity, he had to employ considerable diplomatic skill to maintain good relations with [[Dom Mintoff]], the nationalistic prime minister of [[Malta]].<ref name="Obituary 2001">{{cite news |title=Obituary: Admiral Sir Charles Madden |first=Dan |last=van der Vat |work=[[The Guardian]] |date=4 May 2001}}</ref>

In the 1960s, as the importance of maintaining the link between the United Kingdom and British territories and commitments [[East of Suez]] decreased as the [[British Empire|Empire]] was dismantled, and the focus of [[Cold War]] naval responsibilities moved to the North Atlantic, the Mediterranean Fleet was gradually drawn down, finally disbanding in June 1967. Eric Grove, in ''Vanguard to Trident'', details how by the mid-1960s the permanent strength of the Fleet was "reduced to a single small escort squadron [appears to have been 30th Escort Squadron with {{HMS|Brighton|F106|6}}, {{HMS|Cassandra|R62|6}}, {{HMS|Aisne|D22|6}} plus another ship] and a coastal minesweeper squadron."{{r|grove|page1=297}} Deployments to the [[Beira Patrol]] and elsewhere reduced the escort total in 1966 from four to two ships, and then to no frigates at all. The Fleet's assets and area of responsibility were absorbed into the new [[Western Fleet (United Kingdom)|Western Fleet]]. As a result of this change, the UK relinquished the NATO post of Commander in Chief, [[Allied Forces Mediterranean]], which was abolished.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/written-answers/1967/jun/05/royal-navy-command-system |title=Royal Navy (Command System)|work= [[Hansard|Parliamentary Debates (Hansard)]]|date= 5 June 1967|access-date=18 April 2014}}</ref>

==Principal officers ==
===Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean Sea===
Note: This list is incomplete. The majority of officers listed were appointed as Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean Sea sometimes Commander-in-Chief, at the Mediterranean Sea earlier officers appointed to command either fleets/squadrons stationed in the Mediterranean for particular operations were styled differently see notes next to their listing

{| class="wikitable"
|-valign = top
!Commander-in-chief
!From
!To
!Flagship
!Note
|-valign = top
|General at Sea [[Robert Blake (admiral)|Robert Blake]]<ref>{{cite book |last1=Davies |first1=J. D. |title=Pepys's Navy: Ships, Men and Warfare 1649–89 |date=2008 |publisher=Seaforth Publishing |location=Barnsley, England |isbn=9781783830220 |page=236 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1qe9AwAAQBAJ&q=robert+blake+commander+mediterranean+fleet&pg=PA236 |language=en |chapter=Strategy and Deployment}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Harrison |first1=Simon |title=Robert Blake (1598–1657) |url=https://threedecks.org/index.php?display_type=show_crewman&id=1328 |website=threedecks.org |publisher=S. Harrison |access-date=7 January 2019 |date=2010–2018}}</ref>
| align = right| September 1654
| align = right| August 1657
|[[HMS Swiftsure (1621)|''Swiftsure'']]<br/>[[HMS Royal Charles (1655)|''Naseby'']]<br/>[[HMS St George (1622)|''George'']]
|Styled as Commander of the Fleet for the Mediterranean and Commander of the Mediterranean Fleet. Died on board ''George''.
|-valign = top
|Admiral [[Sir Thomas Allin, 1st Baronet|Sir Thomas Allin]]<ref>{{cite DNB |wstitle= Allin, Thomas |volume= 01 |last= Laughton |first= John Knox |author-link= John Knox Laughton |year=|pages= 332-333 |short= 1}}</ref>
| align = right| August 1668
| align = right| September 1670
|[[HMS Monmouth (1667)|''Monmouth'']]<br/>[[HMS Resolution (1667)|''Resolution'']]
|
|-valign = top
|Vice-Admiral [[Sir Edward Spragge]]
| align = right|September 1670
| align = right|March 1672
|[[HMS Revenge (1654)|''Revenge'']]<br/>[[HMS Rupert (1666)|''Rupert'']]
|
|-valign = top
|Admiral [[Sir John Narborough]]
| align = right|October 1674
| align = right|April 1679
|[[HMS Henrietta (1654)|''Henrietta'']]<br/>[[HMS Plymouth (1653)|''Plymouth'']]
|
|-valign = top
|Admiral [[Arthur Herbert, 1st Earl of Torrington|Arthur Herbert]]
| align = right|April 1679
| align = right|June 1683
|[[HMS Rupert (1666)|''Rupert'']]<br/>[[HMS Bristol (1653)|''Bristol'']]<br/>[[HMS Tyger|''Tiger'']]
|
|-valign = top
|Admiral [[George Legge, 1st Baron Dartmouth|Lord Dartmouth]]
| align = right|August 1683
| align = right|February 1684
|[[HMS Captain (1678)|''Captain'']]
|
|-valign = top
|Captain [[Cloudesley Shovell]]
| align = right|February 1684
| align = right|1686
|[[HMS James Galley|''James Galley'']]
|
|-valign = top
|Vice-Admiral [[Henry Killigrew (Royal Navy officer)|Henry Killigrew]]
| align = right|July 1686
| align = right|June 1690
|[[HMS Dragon (1647)|''Dragon'']]
|
|-valign = top
|Rear-Admiral [[Sir Francis Wheler]]
| align = right|November 1693
| align = right|February 1694
|[[HMS Sussex (1693)|''Sussex'']]
|Killed in a shipwreck in [[Gibraltar Bay]]
|-valign = top
|Admiral of the Fleet [[Edward Russell, 1st Earl of Orford|Edward Russell]]
| align = right|June 1694
| align = right|August 1695
|
|
|-valign = top
|Admiral [[Sir George Rooke]]<ref>{{cite web |last1=Harrison |first1=Simon |title=Commander-in-Chief at The Mediterranean Sea |url=https://threedecks.org/index.php?display_type=show_appointment&appointmentid=32&locationid=767 |website=threedecks.org |publisher=S. Harrison |access-date=7 January 2019 |date=2010–2018}}</ref>
| align = right| August 1695
| align = right| April 1696
|[[HMS Royal Charles (1673)|''Queen'']]
|
|-valign = top
|Vice-Admiral [[John Nevell]]<ref name="Harrison">Harrison</ref><ref>{{cite DNB |wstitle= Nevell, John |volume= 40 |last= Laughton |first= John Knox |author-link= John Knox Laughton |year=|pages= 242-243 |short= 1}}</ref>
| align = right| October 1696
| align = right| August 1697
|[[HMS Cambridge (1695)|''Cambridge'']]
|Died on board ''Cambridge''.
|-valign = top
|Vice-Admiral [[Matthew Aylmer]]
| align = right|September 1698
| align = right|November 1699
|[[HMS Boyne (1692)|''Boyne'']]
|
|-valign = top
|Admiral [[Sir Cloudesley Shovell]]
| align = right|March 1703
| align = right|September 1703
|[[HMS Triumph (1698)|''Triumph'']]
|
|-valign = top
|Admiral of the Fleet [[Sir George Rooke]]
| align = right|February 1704
| align = right|September 1704
|[[HMS Royal Katherine (1664)|''Royal Katharine'']]
|
|-valign = top
|Vice-Admiral [[Sir John Leake]]
| align = right|September 1704
| align = right|May 1705
|[[HMS Duke (1682)|''Prince George'']]
|
|-valign = top
|Admiral [[Lord Peterborough]]
| align = right|May 1705
| align = right|March 1707
|
|Joint admiral with [[Sir Cloudesley Shovell]].
|-valign = top
|Admiral of the Fleet [[Sir Cloudesley Shovell]]<ref>{{cite web |last1=Harrison |first1=Simon |title=Sir Cloudisley Shovell (1650–1707) |url=https://threedecks.org/index.php?display_type=show_crewman&id=1739 |website=threedecks.org |publisher=S. Harrison |access-date=7 January 2019 |date=2010–2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=The 1707 Isles of Scilly Disaster – Part 1 |url=https://www.rmg.co.uk/discover/behind-the-scenes/blog/1707-isles-scilly-disaster-%E2%80%93-part-1 |website=rmg.co.uk |publisher=Royal Museums Greenwich |access-date=7 January 2019 |location=Greenwich, London}}</ref>
| align = right|May 1705
| align = right|October 1707
|
|Joint admiral with [[Lord Peterborough]]. Killed in the [[Scilly naval disaster of 1707]].
|-valign = top
|Rear-Admiral [[Thomas Dilkes|Sir Thomas Dilkes]]
| align = right|October 1707
| align = right|December 1707
|
|Died of a chill at [[Livorno|Leghorn]].
|-valign = top
|Admiral [[Sir John Leake]]<ref>{{cite DNB |wstitle= Leake, John (1656-1720) |volume= 32 |last= Laughton |first= John Knox |author-link= John Knox Laughton |year=|pages= 317-320 |short= 1}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Vice-Admiral Sir John Leake (1656–1720) – National Maritime Museum |url=http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/14308.html |website=collections.rmg.co.uk |publisher=Royal Museums Greenwich |access-date=7 January 2019 |location=London}}</ref> 
| align = right| January 1708
| align = right| September 1708
|[[HMS Albemarle (1680)|''Albemarle'']]
|
|-valign = top
|Admiral [[George Byng, 1st Viscount Torrington|George Byng]]<ref>{{cite book |last1=Owen |first1=John Hely |title=War at Sea Under Queen Anne 1702–1708 |date=2010 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge, England |isbn=9781108013383 |page=100 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e6dp22K6KCAC&q=admiral+sir+george+byng+established+port+mahon+dockyard&pg=PA100 |language=en}}</ref>
| align = right|December 1708
| align = right|Autumn 1709
|
|Styled as Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean Squadron.
|-valign = top
|Admiral [[John Norris (Royal Navy officer)|Sir John Norris]]<ref name="Harrison"/><ref>{{cite book |last1=Aldridge |first1=David Denis |title=Admiral Sir John Norris and the British Naval Expeditions to the Baltic Sea 1715–1727 |date=2009 |publisher=Nordic Academic Press |location=Lund, Sweden |isbn=9789185509317 |page=74 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ewhrv-rRapoC&q=Sir+John+Norris+commander+in+chief+mediterranean&pg=PA74 |language=en}}</ref>
| align = right|December 1709
| align = right|November 1710
|
|
|-valign = top
|Admiral [[John Jennings (Royal Navy officer)|Sir John Jennings]]<ref name="Harrison"/><ref>{{cite DNB |wstitle= Jennings, John |volume= 29 |last= Laughton |first= John Knox |author-link= John Knox Laughton |year=|pages= 330-331 |short= 1}}</ref>
| align = right| November 1710
| align = right| December 1713
|[[HMS Duchess (1679)|''Blenheim'']]
|
|-valign = top
|Admiral [[Admiral Sir James Wishart|Sir James Wishart]]<ref name="Harrison"/><ref>{{cite web |title=Sir James Wishart, c. 1659–1723 – National Maritime Museum |url=http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/14574.html |website=collections.rmg.co.uk |publisher=Royal Museums Greenwich |access-date=7 January 2019 |location=London}}</ref>
| align = right| December 1713
| align = right| 1715
|[[HMS Rippon (1712)|''Rippon'']]
|
|-valign = top
|Vice-Admiral [[John Baker (Royal Navy officer)|John Baker]]<ref name="Harrison"/><ref>{{cite book |title=British and Foreign State Papers |date=1841 |publisher=H.M. Stationery Office |location=London|page=735 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DLkMAQAAIAAJ&q=John+Baker+commander+in+chief+in+the+mediterranean+sea&pg=PA735 |language=en}}</ref>
| align = right| May 1715
| align = right| October 1716
|[[HMS Lion (1709)|''Lion'']]
|
|-valign = top
|Vice-Admiral [[Charles Cornwall]]<ref name="Harrison"/><ref>{{cite book |last1=Polsue |first1=Joseph |title=A Complete Parochial History of the County of Cornwall: Compiled from the Best Authorities & Corrected and Improved from Actual Survey; Illustrated |date=1870 |publisher=W. Lake |location=England |page=165 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MhsiAQAAIAAJ&q=Charles+Cornewall+commander+in+chief+mediterranean&pg=PA165 |language=en}}</ref>
| align = right| October 1716
| align = right| March 1718
|
|
|-valign = top
|Admiral of the Fleet [[George Byng, 1st Viscount Torrington|George Byng]]<ref>{{cite web |last1=Harrison |first1=Simon |title=George Byng (1663/64–1732/33) |url=https://threedecks.org/index.php?display_type=show_crewman&id=179 |website=threedecks.org |publisher=S. Harrison |access-date=7 January 2019 |date=2010–2018}}</ref>
| align = right| March 1718
| align = right| October 1720
|[[HMS Barfleur (1697)|''Barfleur'']]
|Styled as Commander of the British Mediterranean Fleet.
|-valign = top
|Vice-Admiral [[Sir Charles Wager]]
| align = right|January 1727
| align = right|April 1728
|
|
|-valign = top
|Admiral [[Sir Charles Wager]]
| align = right|August 1731
| align = right|December 1731
|[[HMS Namur (1697)|''Namur'']]
|
|-valign = top
|Commodore [[George Clinton (Royal Navy officer)|George Clinton]]<ref name="Harrison"/><ref>{{cite book |last1=Dietz |first1=Theodore |title=Dutch Esopus / Wiltwyck / Kingston Memories |date=2012 |publisher=Dorrance Publishing |location=Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |isbn=9781434915078 |page=54 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NqQnutrs90MC&q=George+Clinton+commander+in+chief+mediterranean&pg=PA54 |language=en}}</ref>
| align = right| 1736
| align = right| 1738
|
|
|-valign = top
|Vice-Admiral [[Nicholas Haddock]]<ref name="Harrison"/><ref>{{cite book |last1=Stewart |first1=William |title=Admirals of the World: A Biographical Dictionary, 1500 to the Present |date=2014 |publisher=McFarland |location=Jefferson, North Carolina|isbn=9780786482887 |page=152 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=S1VimlFIjQoC&q=Nicholas+Haddock+commander+in+chief+mediterranean&pg=PA152 |language=en}}</ref>
| align = right| May 1738
| align = right| February 1742
|
|
|-valign = top
|Rear-Admiral [[Richard Lestock]]<ref name="Harrison"/><ref name="Encyclopedia of Naval History">{{cite book |last1=Bruce |first1=Anthony |last2=Cogar |first2=William |title=Encyclopedia of Naval History |date=2014 |publisher=Routledge |location=Cambridge, England |isbn=9781135935344 |page=240 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yci2AgAAQBAJ&q=Richard+Lestock+commander+in+chief+mediterranean&pg=PA240 |language=en}}</ref>
| align = right| February 1742
| align = right| March 1742
|[[HMS Neptune (1683)|''Neptune'']]
|
|-valign = top
|Admiral [[Thomas Mathews]]<ref name="Harrison"/><ref name="Encyclopedia of Naval History"/>
| align = right| March 1742
| align = right| June 1744
|
|
|-valign = top
|Vice-Admiral [[William Rowley (Royal Navy officer)|William Rowley]]<ref name="Harrison"/><ref>{{cite book |last1=Hawke |first1=Baron Edward Hawke |last2=Mackay |first2=Ruddock F. |title=The Hawke papers: a selection, 1743–1771 |date=1990 |publisher=Scolar Press for the Navy Records Society |location=Riga, Latvia |isbn=9780859678308 |page=4 |language=en}}</ref>
| align = right | August 1744
| align = right | July 1745
|[[HMS Neptune (1683)|''Neptune'']]
|
|-valign = top
|Vice-Admiral [[Henry Medley]]<ref name="Harrison"/><ref>{{cite book |last1=Richmond |first1=Rear-Admiral H. W. |title=the navy in the war of 1739–48 |date=1930 |publisher=CUP Archive |location=Cambridge, England |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=--o8AAAAIAAJ&q=Henry+Medley+commander+in+chief+mediterranean&pg=PA152 |language=en |chapter=VI}}</ref>
| align = right | July 1745
| align = right | August 1747
|[[HMS Russell (1692)|''Russell'']]
|Died of fever at [[Vado Ligure|Vado]].
|-valign = top
|Vice-Admiral [[John Byng]]<ref>{{cite book |last1=Stewart |first1=William |title=Admirals of the World: A Biographical Dictionary, 1500 to the Present |date=2014 |publisher=McFarland |location=Jefferson, North Carolina|isbn=9780786482887 |page=52 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=S1VimlFIjQoC&q=John+Byng+commander+in+chief+mediterranean&pg=PA52 |language=en}}</ref>
| align = right | August 1747
| align = right | August 1748
|[[HMS Princess (1740)|''Princess'']]
|
|-valign = top
|Rear-Admiral [[John Forbes (Royal Navy officer)|John Forbes]]<ref>{{cite DNB |wstitle= Forbes, John (1714-1796) |volume= 19 |last= Laughton |first= John Knox |author-link= John Knox Laughton |year=|pages= 404-405 |short= 1}}</ref>
| align = right | August 1748
| align = right | October 1748
|
|As Commander-in-Chief in the Mediterranean.
|-valign = top
|Commodore [[Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel|Augustus Keppel]]
| align = right |March 1749
| align = right |July 1751
|[[HMS Centurion (1732)|''Centurion'']]
|
|-valign = top
|Commodore [[George Edgcumbe, 1st Earl of Mount Edgcumbe|George Edgcumbe]]
| align = right |1751
| align = right |April 1756
|[[HMS Monmouth (1667)|''Monmouth'']]<br/>[[HMS Deptford (1732)|''Deptford'']]
|
|-valign = top
|Admiral [[John Byng]]
| align = right | April 1756
| align = right | July 1756
|
|
|-valign = top
|Vice-Admiral [[Sir Edward Hawke]]
| align = right | July 1756
| align = right | January 1757
|[[HMS Royal Katherine (1664)|''Ramillies'']]
|
|-valign = top
|Rear-Admiral [[Charles Saunders (Royal Navy officer)|Charles Saunders]]<ref>{{cite book |last1=Clarke |first1=(first name unknown) |title=The Georgian Era: Military and naval commanders. Judges and barristers. Physicians and surgeons. |date=1833 |publisher=Vizetelly, Branston and Company |location=London |page=[https://archive.org/details/georgianeramemo01clargoog/page/n189 176] |url=https://archive.org/details/georgianeramemo01clargoog |language=en}}</ref>
| align = right | January 1757
| align = right | May 1757
|
|
|-
|}

===Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean Fleet===
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[[File:Commanders in Chief of the Mediterranean Station 1.jpg|thumbnail|right|Commanders-in-chief on the Mediterranean Station 1792–1883]]

[[File:Commanders in Chief of the Mediterranean Station, 1886-1957.jpg|thumbnail|right|Commanders-in-chief on the Mediterranean Station, 1886–1957]]

The first Commander-in-Chief for the Mediterranean Fleet may have been named as early as 1665.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.navylist.org/risk.htm |title=Other Data |website=Naval Biographical Database}}</ref> Commanders-in-chief have included:<ref name="RNCiC">{{cite web |url=http://www.pdavis.nl/ShowCommanders.php |website=William Loney RN |title=Principal Royal Navy Commanders-in-Chief 1830–1899|first=Peter |last=Davis}}</ref><ref>Whitaker's Almanacks 1900–1967</ref>
<br/>
{| class="wikitable"
|-valign = top
!Commander-in-chief
!From
!To
!Flagship
!Note
|-valign = top
|Admiral [[Henry Osborn (Royal Navy officer)|Henry Osborn]]<ref>{{Cite ODNB|id=20878|title=Osborn, Henry}}</ref>
| align = right| May 1757
| align = right| March 1758
|
|
|-valign = top
|Vice-Admiral [[Charles Saunders (Royal Navy officer)|Sir Charles Saunders]]
| align = right| April 1760
| align = right| April 1763
|
|
|-valign = top
|Commodore [[Richard Spry]]
| align = right| May 1766
| align = right| November 1769
|
|
|-valign = top
|Rear-Admiral [[Richard Howe]]<ref>{{Cite ODNB|id=13963|title=Howe, Richard}}</ref>
| align = right| November 1770
| align = right| June 1774
|
|
|-valign = top
|Vice-Admiral [[Robert Man]]<ref name=mtn>{{cite web|url=http://morethannelson.com/author/richard-hiscocks/page/3/|title=Mediterranean Fleet|publisher=More than Nelson|access-date=20 November 2016}}</ref>
| align = right| June 1774
| align = right| September 1777
|
|
|-valign = top
|Vice-Admiral [[Robert Duff (Royal Navy officer)|Robert Duff]]<ref name=mtn/>
| align = right| September 1777
| align = right| January 1780
|[[HMS Panther (1758)|''Panther'']]
|
|-valign = top
| Commodore [[John Elliot (Royal Navy officer)|John Elliot]]
| align = right| January 1780
| align = right| February 1780
|[[HMS Edgar (1779)|''Edgar'']]
|
|-valign = top
|No fleet present<ref name=mtn/>
| align = right| February 1780
| align = right| December 1783
|
|
|-valign = top
|Commodore [[Sir John Lindsay]]
| align = right| December 1783
| align = right| July 1785
|[[HMS Trusty (1782)|''Trusty'']]
|
|-valign = top
|Commodore [[Phillips Cosby]]
| align = right| July 1785
| align = right| January 1789
|[[HMS Trusty (1782)|''Trusty'']]
|
|-valign = top
|Rear-Admiral [[Joseph Peyton]]
| align = right | 1789
| align = right | 1792
|
|
|-valign = top
|Rear-Admiral [[Samuel Granston Goodall]]
| align = right | 1792
| align = right | 1793
|
|
|-valign = top
|Vice-Admiral [[Sir Samuel Hood]]
| align = right | February 1793
| align = right | October 1794
|
|
|-valign = top
|Vice-Admiral [[William Hotham, 1st Baron Hotham|Lord Hotham]]
| align = right | October 1794
| align = right | November 1795
|
|
|-valign = top
|Vice-Admiral [[John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent|Lord Jervis]]
| align = right | 1796
| align = right | 1799
|
|
|-valign = top
|Vice-Admiral [[George Elphinstone, 1st Viscount Keith|Lord Keith]]
| align = right | November 1799
| align = right | 1802
|
|
|-valign = top
|Rear-Admiral [[Sir Richard Bickerton, 2nd Baronet|Sir Richard Bickerton]]
| align = right | 1802
| align = right | 1803
|
|
|-valign = top
|Vice-Admiral [[Lord Nelson]]<ref name="RNCiC"/><ref name="stirnet">[http://www.stirnet.com/HTML/genie/british/hh4bz/hotham1.htm Hotham family tree]</ref>
| align = right | May 1803
| align = right | October 1805
| align = left  | [[HMS Victory|''Victory'']]
|Killed at [[Battle of Trafalgar]]
|-valign = top
| Vice-Admiral [[Lord Collingwood]]
| align = right | 1805
| align = right | 1810
|
|
|-valign = top
| Vice-Admiral [[Sir Charles Cotton, 5th Baronet|Sir Charles Cotton]]<ref>{{Cite ODNB|id=6411|title=Cotton, Charles}}</ref>
| align = right | 1810
| align = right | 1811
|
|
|-valign = top
|Vice-Admiral [[Sir Edward Pellew]]
| align = right | 1811
| align = right | 1814
|
|
|-valign = top
|Vice-Admiral [[Charles Penrose (Royal Navy officer)|Sir Charles Penrose]]
| align = right | 1814
| align = right | 1815
|
|
|-valign = top
|Vice-Admiral [[Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth|Lord Exmouth]]
| align = right | 1815
| align = right | 1816
|
|
|-valign = top
|Vice-Admiral [[Charles Penrose (Royal Navy officer)|Sir Charles Penrose]]
| align = right | 1816
| align = right | 1818
|
|
|-valign = top
|Vice-Admiral [[Thomas Fremantle (Royal Navy officer)|Sir Thomas Fremantle]]<ref>{{Cite ODNB|id=10159|title=Fremantle, Thomas}}</ref>
| align = right | 1818
| align = right | 1820
|
|
|-valign = top
|Vice-Admiral [[Sir Graham Moore]]
| align = right | 1820
| align = right | 1823
|
|
|-valign = top
|Vice-Admiral [[Sir Harry Burrard-Neale, 2nd Baronet|Sir Harry Burrard-Neale]]
| align = right | 1823
| align = right | 1826
|
|
|-valign = top
|Vice-Admiral [[Sir Edward Codrington]]
| align = right | 1826
| align = right | 1828
|
|
|-valign = top
|Vice-Admiral [[Sir Pulteney Malcolm]]
| align = right | 1828
| align = right | 1831
|
|
|-valign = top
|Vice-Admiral [[Henry Hotham|Sir Henry Hotham]]<ref name="RNCiC"/><ref name="stirnet" />
| align = right | 30 March 1831
| align = right | 19 April 1833
|
|Died 19 April 1833
|-valign = top
|Vice-Admiral [[Sir Pulteney Malcolm]]
| align = right | 3 May 1833
| align = right | 18 December 1833
|
|
|-valign = top
|Vice-Admiral [[Sir Josias Rowley, 1st Baronet|Sir Josias Rowley]]
| align = right | 18 December 1833
| align = right | 9 February 1837
|
|
|-valign = top
|Admiral [[Robert Stopford (Royal Navy officer)|Sir Robert Stopford]]
| align = right | 9 February 1837
| align = right | 14 October 1841
|
|
|-valign = top
|Rear-Admiral [[Francis Mason (Royal Navy officer)|Sir Francis Mason]]
| align = right | 31 October 1841
| align = right | April 1842
|
|
|-valign = top
|Vice-Admiral [[Edward Owen (Royal Navy officer)|Sir Edward Owen]]
| align = right | April 1842
| align = right | 27 February 1845
|
|
|-valign = top
| Vice-Admiral [[Sir William Parker]]
| align = right | 27 February 1845
| align = right | 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.<ref>{{Cite ODNB|id=21348|title=Parker, William}}</ref>
|-valign = top
| Vice-Admiral [[Sir William Parker]]
| align = right | 24 July 1846
| align = right | 17 January 1852
|
|
|-valign = top
|Rear-Admiral [[James Whitley Deans Dundas|Sir James Dundas]]
| align = right | 17 January 1852
| align = right | 1854
|
|Vice-Adm. 17 December 1852
|-valign = top
|Rear-Admiral [[Edmund Lyons, 1st Baron Lyons|Sir Edmund Lyons]]
| align = right | 1854
| align = right | 22 February 1858
|
|Vice-Adm. 19 March 1857
|-valign = top
| align = left | Vice-Admiral [[Arthur Fanshawe|Sir Arthur Fanshawe]]
| align = right | 22 February 1858
| align = right | 19 April 1860
| align = left | {{HMS|Marlborough|1855|2}} <ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pdavis.nl/ShowBiog.php?id=215 |website=William Loney RN |title=Biography of Arthur Fanshawe R.N.|first=Peter |last=Davis}}</ref>
| align = left |
|-valign = top
| align = left | Vice-Admiral  [[Sir William Martin, 4th Baronet|Sir William Martin]]
| align = right | 19 April 1860
| align = right | 20 April 1863
| align = left | ''Marlborough'' <ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pdavis.nl/ShowBiog.php?id=819 |website=William Loney RN |title=Biography of William Fanshawe Martin R.N.|first=Peter |last=Davis}}</ref>
| align = left |
|-valign = top
| align = left | Vice-Admiral [[Robert Smart (Royal Navy officer)|Sir Robert Smart]]
| align = right | 20 April 1863
| align = right | 28 April 1866
| align = left | ''Marlborough''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pdavis.nl/ShowShip.php?id=2 |website=William Loney RN |title=Mid-Victorian RN Vessel HMS ''Marlborough''|first=Peter |last=Davis}}</ref> then {{HMS|Victoria|1859|2}} <ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pdavis.nl/ShowBiog.php?id=435 |website=William Loney RN |title=Biography of Robert Smart R. N.|first=Peter |last=Davis}}</ref>
| align = left |
|-valign = top
| align = left | Vice-Admiral  [[Lord Clarence Paget]]
| align = right | 28 April 1866
| align = right | 28 April 1869
| align = left | ''Victoria'' then {{HMS|Caledonia|1862|2}}<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pdavis.nl/ShowBiog.php?id=71 |website=William Loney RN |title=Biography of Lord Clarence Edward Paget R. N.|first=Peter |last=Davis}}</ref>
| align = left |
|-valign = top
| align = left | Vice-Admiral [[Sir Alexander Milne, 1st Baronet|Sir Alexander Milne]]
| align = right | 28 April 1869
| align = right | 25 October 1870
| align = left | {{HMS|Lord Warden|1865|2}} <ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pdavis.nl/ShowBiog.php?id=68 |website=William Loney RN |title=Biography of Alexander Milne R. N.|first=Peter |last=Davis}}</ref>
| align = left | Adm. 1 April 1870
|-valign = top
| Vice-Admiral [[Hastings Yelverton|Sir Hastings Yelverton]]
| align = right | 25 October 1870
| align = right | 13 January 1874
| ''Lord Warden'' <ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pdavis.nl/ShowBiog.php?id=550 |website=William Loney RN |title=Biography of Hastings Reginald Yelverton R. N.|first=Peter |last=Davis}}</ref>
| align = left |
|-valign = top
|Vice-Admiral [[James Robert Drummond|Sir James Drummond]]
| align = right | 13 January 1874
| align = right | 15 January 1877
| ''Lord Warden'' then {{HMS|Hercules|1868|2}} <ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pdavis.nl/ShowBiog.php?id=32 |website=William Loney RN |title=Biography of James Robert Drummond R. N.|first=Peter |last=Davis}}</ref>
| align = left |
|-valign = top
|Vice-Admiral [[Geoffrey Hornby|Sir Geoffrey Hornby]]
| align = right | 5 January 1877
| align = right | 5 February 1880
|{{HMS|Alexandra|1875|2}} <ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pdavis.nl/ShowBiog.php?id=860 |website=William Loney RN |title=Biography of Geoffrey Thomas Phipps Hornby R. N.|first=Peter |last=Davis}}</ref>
|Adm. 15 June 1879
|-valign = top
| Vice-Admiral [[Beauchamp Seymour, 1st Baron Alcester|Sir Beauchamp Seymour]]
| align = right | 5 February 1880
| align = right | 7 February 1883
| {{HMS|Inconstant|1868|2}} and {{HMS|Alexandra|1875|2}}<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pdavis.nl/ShowBiog.php?id=87 |website=William Loney RN |title=Biography of Frederick Beachamp Paget Seymour R. N.|first=Peter |last=Davis}}</ref>
| align = left | Adm. 6 May 1882
|-valign = top
| align = left | Vice-Admiral [[Lord John Hay (Royal Navy admiral of the fleet)|Lord John Hay]]
| align = right | 7 February 1883
| align = right | 5 February 1886
| align = left | {{HMS|Alexandra|1875|2}}<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pdavis.nl/ShowBiog.php?id=980 |website=William Loney RN |title=Biography of Lord John Hay R. N.|first=Peter |last=Davis}}</ref>
| align = left | Adm. 8 July 1884
|-valign = top
| align = left | Vice-Admiral [[Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha|H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh]]
| align = right | 5 February 1886
| align = right | 11 March 1889
| align = left | {{HMS|Alexandra|1875|2}}<ref name="parkes">{{cite book|last1=Parkes|first1=Oscar|title=British Battleships: "Warrior" to "Vanguard", 1860–1950|date=1990|publisher=Naval Institute Press|location=Annapolis|isbn=1-55750-075-4}}</ref>{{rp|222}}
| align = left | Adm. 18 October 1887
|-valign = top
| align = left | Vice-Admiral [[Sir Anthony Hoskins]]
| align = right | 11 March 1889
| align = right | 20 August 1891
| align = left | {{HMS|Alexandra|1875|2}} <small>Mar 89 – Dec 89</small> <br/>{{HMS|Camperdown|1885|2}} <small>Dec 89 – May 90</small> <br/>{{HMS|Victoria|1887|2}} <small>May 90 onwards</small>{{r|parkes|page1=222, 320, 336}}
| align = left | Adm. 20 June 1891
|-valign = top
| align = left | Vice-Admiral [[George Tryon|Sir George Tryon]]
| align = right | 20 August 1891
| align = right | 22 June 1893
| align = left | {{HMS|Victoria|1887|2}}<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pdavis.nl/ShowBiog.php?id=1586 |website=William Loney RN |title=Biography of George Tryon R. N.|first=Peter |last=Davis}}</ref>
| Died in commission; lost in ''Victoria''
|-valign = top
| align = left | Admiral [[Sir Michael Culme-Seymour, 3rd Baronet|Sir Michael Culme-Seymour]]
| align = right | 29 June 1893
| align = right | 10 November 1896
| {{HMS|Ramillies|1892|2}}{{r|parkes|page1=362}}
| align = left |
|-valign = top
| align = left | Admiral [[John Hopkins (Royal Navy officer)|Sir John Hopkins]]
| align = right | 10 November 1896
| align = right | 1 July 1899
| align = left | {{HMS|Ramillies|1892|2}}<ref name="S.W.C. Pack, 1971">{{cite book|last1=Pack|first1=S. W. C.|title=Sea Power in the Mediterranean: A study from the struggle for sea power in the Mediterranean from the seventeenth century to the present day|date=1971|publisher=Arthur Barker|location=London|isbn=0-213-00394-5|page=232}}</ref>
| align = left |
|-valign = "top"
| align = left | Admiral [[Sir John Fisher]]
| align = right | 1 July 1899
| align = right | 4 June 1902<ref>{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Naval & Military intelligence |date=30 May 1902 |page=10 |issue=36781}}</ref>
| align = left | {{HMS|Renown|1895|2}}
| align = left |
|-valign = top
| align = left | Admiral [[Compton Edward Domvile|Sir Compton Domvile]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pdavis.nl/ShowBiog.php?id=1400 |website=William Loney RN |title=Biography of Compton Edward Domville [sic&#93; R. N.|first=Peter |last=Davis}}</ref>
| align = right | 4 June 1902
| align = right | June 1905
| align = left | {{HMS|Bulwark|1899|2}}<ref name="S.W.C. Pack, 1971"/>
| align = left |
|-valign = "top"
| align = left | Admiral [[Lord Charles Beresford]]<ref>Navy List July Dec 1906</ref><ref>{{cite book |first=Geoffrey |last=Bennett |title=Charlie B, a Biography of Admiral Lord Beresford of Metemmeh and Curraghmore GCB GCVO LLD DCL |publisher=Peter Dawnay |date=1968 |pages=267 & 282}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Beresford |first=Lord Charles |title=The Memoirs of Admiral Lord Charles Beresford |url=https://archive.org/details/memoirsadmirall01unkngoog |publisher=Methuen |date=1914 |page=[https://archive.org/details/memoirsadmirall01unkngoog/page/n258 508]}}</ref>
| align = right | <small>appointed</small> 1 May 1905<br/><small>assumed command</small> 6 June 1905
| align = right | February 1907
| align = left | {{HMS|Bulwark|1899|2}}
| align = left |
|-valign = "top"
| align = left | Admiral [[Charles Carter Drury|Sir Charles Drury]]<ref>Navy List July 1908</ref>
| align = right | <small>appointed</small> 5 March 1907<br/><small>assumed command</small> 27 March 1907
| align = right | 1908
| align = left | {{HMS|Queen|1902|2}}
| align = left |
|-valign = top
| align = left | Admiral [[Sir Assheton Curzon-Howe]]<ref>Navy List Jan 1909</ref><ref name="janus.lib.cam.ac.uk">{{cite web |url=http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/db/node.xsp?id=EAD%2FGBR%2F0014%2FMCKN%203 |website=Janus |title=The Papers of Reginald McKenna}}</ref>
| align = right | <small>appointed</small> 20 November 1908<br/><small>assumed command</small> 20 November 1908
| align = right | 1910
| align = left | {{HMS|Exmouth|1901|2}}
| align = left |
|-valign = top
| align = left | Admiral [[Edmund Poë|Sir Edmund Poë]]<ref name="janus.lib.cam.ac.uk"/><ref>Navy List Jan 1911</ref>
| align = right | <small>appointed</small> 30 April 1910<br/><small>assumed command</small> 30 April 1910
| align = right | November 1912
| align = left | {{HMS|Exmouth|1901|2}}<ref name="S.W.C. Pack, 1971"/>
| align = left |
|-valign = top
| align = left | Admiral [[Sir Berkley Milne]]<ref>Navy List Feb 1913</ref><ref name="miller">{{cite book |first=Geoffrey |last=Miller |url=http://www.manorhouse.clara.net/book1/index.htm |title=Superior Force: The conspiracy behind the escape of ''Goeben'' and ''Breslau'' |location=Hull |date=1996 |isbn=0-85958-635-9}}</ref>{{rp|287, 289, 422}}<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.firstworldwar.com/bio/milne_berkeley.htm |title=Who's Who: Sir Berkeley Milne |website=First World War.com}}</ref>
| align = right | <small>appointed</small> 1 June 1912<br/><small>assumed command</small> 12 June 1912
| align = right | 27 August 1914
| align = left | {{HMS|Inflexible|1907|2}}
| align = left |
|-valign = "top"
| colspan = 5 | During [[World War I]] plans were put in place to separate the Mediterranean into specific areas of responsibility. The British were charged with responsibility for Gibraltar, Malta, Egyptian coast, and Aegean in August 1917 Vice Admiral Somerset Gough-Calthorpe became CinC, MF commanding all British forces in the Mediterranean. Overall allied command would remain under the control of the Allied Commander in Chief, who was the head of the [[French Navy]]. Vice-Admiral Somerset Gough-Calthorpe was also responsible for coordinating other allied forces in Mediterranean. British forces were divided into a number of sub-commands namely [[Flag Officer Gibraltar|Gibraltar]], [[Flag Officer, Malta|Malta]], the [[British Adriatic Squadron]],  the [[British Aegean Squadron]],  the [[Egypt Division and Red Sea]] and the [[Black Sea and Marmora Force]].<ref>{{cite web|last1=Watson|first1=Graham|title=Royal Navy Organisation and Ship Deployment, Inter-War Years 1914–1918|url=http://www.naval-history.net/xGW-RNOrganisation1914-1918.htm#med|website=www.naval-history.net|publisher=Gordon Smith, 27 October 2015|access-date=13 March 2018}}</ref> Post titles have been put in bold in the notes column.
|-valign = top
| align = left | Admiral [[Sir Somerset Gough-Calthorpe]]{{r|miller|page1=323}}<ref name="james">{{cite book |first=Admiral Sir William |last=James |title=Admiral Sir William Fisher |publisher=Macmillan |date=1943}}</ref>{{rp|80}}<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.admirals.org.uk/admirals/individual.php?RecNo=58 |title=Somerset Gough-Calthorpe career |website=Royal Navy Flag Officers 1904–1945 |access-date=25 August 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110725095708/http://www.admirals.org.uk/admirals/individual.php?RecNo=58 |archive-date=25 July 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gwpda.org/naval/rnfo1418.htm |title=RN World War I Flag Officers |website=gwpda.org}}</ref>
| align = right | 26 August 1917
| align = right | 25 July 1919
| align = left | {{HMS|Superb|1907|2}}
| align = left |''Commander-in-Chief Mediterranean''
|-valign = top
| align = left | Vice Admiral [[Sir John de Robeck]]{{r|james|page1=85 & 94}}<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.admirals.org.uk/admirals/individual.php?RecNo=32 |title=John de Robeck career |website=Royal Navy Flag Officers 1904–1945 |access-date=25 August 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110725095657/http://www.admirals.org.uk/admirals/individual.php?RecNo=32 |archive-date=25 July 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
| align = right | 26 July 1919
| align = right | 14 May 1922
| align = left | {{HMS|Iron Duke|1912|2}}
| align = left |
|-valign = top
| align = left | Vice Admiral [[Osmond Brock|Sir Osmond Brock]]{{r|james|page1=92}}<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.admirals.org.uk/admirals/individual.php?RecNo=12 |title=Osmond de Beauvoir Brock career |website=Royal Navy Flag Officers 1904–1945 |access-date=25 August 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110725095715/http://www.admirals.org.uk/admirals/individual.php?RecNo=12 |archive-date=25 July 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
| align = right | 15 May 1922
| align = right | 7 June 1925
| align = left | {{HMS|Iron Duke|1912|2}}
| align = left | Admiral 31 July 1924
|-valign = top
| align = left | Admiral [[Sir Roger Keyes]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.admirals.org.uk/admirals/individual.php?RecNo=76 |title=Roger Keyes career |website=Royal Navy Flag Officers 1904–1945 |access-date=25 August 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110725095732/http://www.admirals.org.uk/admirals/individual.php?RecNo=76 |archive-date=25 July 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
| align = right | 8 June 1925
| align = right | 7 June 1928
| align = left | {{HMS|Warspite|03|2}}
| align = left |
|-valign = top
| align = left | Admiral [[Frederick Field (Royal Navy officer)|Sir Frederick Field]]
| align = right | 8 June 1928
| align = left | 28 May 1930
| align = left | {{HMS|Queen Elizabeth|1913|2}}{{r|james|page1=121}}
|-valign = top
| align = left | Admiral [[Ernle Chatfield, 1st Baron Chatfield|Sir Ernle Chatfield]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.admirals.org.uk/admirals/fleet/chatfieldaem.htm |title=Ernle Chatfield career |website=Royal Navy Flag Officers 1904–1945 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927090018/http://www.admirals.org.uk/admirals/fleet/chatfieldaem.htm |archive-date=27 September 2007 |df=dmy-all }}</ref>
| align = right | 27 May 1930
| align = right | 31 October 1932
| align = left | {{HMS|Queen Elizabeth|1913|2}}<ref name="james"/>
| align = left |
|-valign = top
| align = left | Admiral [[William Wordsworth Fisher|Sir William Fisher]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/db/node.xsp?id=EAD%2FGBR%2F0014%2FWWFI |title=Papers of Admiral Fisher |website=Janus}}</ref><ref name="james"/><ref name="dp">{{cite web |url=http://www.admirals.org.uk/admirals/fleet/poundadpr.htm |title=Dudley Pound career history |website=Royal Navy Flag Officers 1904–1945 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927090153/http://www.admirals.org.uk/admirals/fleet/poundadpr.htm |archive-date=27 September 2007 |df=dmy-all }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.admirals.org.uk/admirals/individual.php?RecNo=47 |title=Admiral Sir William Fisher career |website=Royal Navy Flag Officers 1904–1945 |access-date=25 August 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303231937/http://www.admirals.org.uk/admirals/individual.php?RecNo=47 |archive-date=3 March 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
| align = right | 31 October 1932
| align = right | 19 March 1936
| align = left | {{HMS|Resolution|09|2}} later  {{HMS|Queen Elizabeth|1913|2}}{{r|james|page1=121 & 123}}
| align = left |
|-valign = top
| align = left | Admiral [[Sir Dudley Pound]]{{r|james|page1=140}}<br><ref name="dp"/><ref name="ac">{{cite web |url=http://www.admirals.org.uk/admirals/fleet/cunninghamabc.htm |title=Andrew Cunningham career |website=Royal Navy Flag Officers 1904–1945 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927090002/http://www.admirals.org.uk/admirals/fleet/cunninghamabc.htm |archive-date=27 September 2007 |df=dmy-all }}</ref>
| align = right | 20 March 1936
| align = right | 31 May 1939
| align = left | {{HMS|Queen Elizabeth|1913|2}}<ref name="S.W.C. Pack, 1971"/>
| align = left |
|-valign = top
| colspan = 5 | During World War II, the Fleet was split in two for a period. Post titles in the notes column.
|-valign = top
| align = left | Admiral [[Sir Andrew Cunningham]]<ref name="ac"/><ref name="World War II RN Officers C">{{Cite web |url=http://www.unithistories.com/officers/RN_officersC4.html |title=World War II RN Officers C |access-date=26 August 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150921193651/http://www.unithistories.com/officers/RN_officersC4.html |archive-date=21 September 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="Houterman and Koppes">{{cite web |last1=Houterman |first1=Jerome N. |last2=Koppes |first2=Jeroen |title=Royal Navy, Mediterranean Fleet 1939–1945 |url=http://www.unithistories.com/units_british/RN_MedFleet.html |website=www.unithistories.com |publisher=Houterman and Koppes |access-date=27 September 2018 |date=2004–2006}}</ref>
| align = right | 1 June 1939<br/> <small>6 June 1939<br/> assumed command</small>
| align = right | March 1942
| align = left | {{HMS|Warspite|03|2}} <small>August 1939</small> <br/>HMS ''St Angelo'' (base, Malta) <small>April 1940</small> <br/>{{HMS|Warspite|03|2}} <small>February 1941</small>
| align = left | '''Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean Fleet'''. Vice-Admiral Cunningham was given ''acting rank'' of Admiral on 1 June 1940, and promoted to Admiral on 3 January 1941.
|-valign = top
| align = left | Admiral [[Henry Harwood|Sir Henry Harwood]]<ref name="Houterman and Koppes"/>
| align = right | 22 April 1942
| align = right | February 1943
| align = left | ''Warspite'' <br/>HMS ''Nile'' (base, Alexandria) <small>Aug 1942</small>
| align = left | '''Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean Fleet'''. Vice-Admiral Harwood was given ''acting rank'' of Admiral.
|-valign = top
| align = left | Admiral [[Sir Andrew Cunningham]]<ref name="ac"/><ref name="World War II RN Officers C"/><ref name="Houterman and Koppes"/>
| align = right | 1 November 1942
| align = right | 20 February 1943
| align = left | HMS ''Hannibal'' (base, Algiers)
| align = left | ''Naval Commander Expeditionary Force (NCXF) North Africa and Mediterranean''
|-valign = top
| colspan = 5 | In February 1943 the Fleet was divided into a command of ships and a command of ports & naval bases: <br/> '''Mediterranean Fleet''': [[Commander-in-Chief Mediterranean Fleet]], 15th Cruiser Squadron, Cdre. (D)<br/> '''Levant''': [[Commander-in-Chief, Levant]], Alexandria, Malta, Port Said, Haifa, Bizerta, Tripoli, Mersa Matruh, Benghazi, Aden, Bone, Bougie, Philippeville <br/> '''C-in-C Levant''' was renamed '''C-in-C Levant and Eastern Mediterranean''' in late December 1943.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Watson |first1=Graham |title=Royal Navy Organisation in World War 2, 1939–1945 |url=http://www.naval-history.net/xGW-RNOrganisation1939-45.htm |website=naval-history.net |publisher=Gordon Smith, 19 September 2015 |access-date=3 July 2018}}</ref><br/>
In January 1944 the two separate commands were re-unified with the '''Flag Officer, Levant and East Mediterranean (FOLEM)''' reporting to the C-in-C Mediterranean.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Stewart |first1=Ninian |title=The Royal Navy and the Palestine Patrol |date=2013 |publisher=Routledge |location=Cambridge, England |isbn=9781135283506 |page=27 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RTj_AQAAQBAJ&q=the+Royal+Navy%27s+Levant+command+was+established+in&pg=PA27 |language=en}}</ref>
|-
|-valign = top
| align = left | Admiral of the Fleet [[Sir Andrew Cunningham]]<ref name="ac"/><ref name="World War II RN Officers C"/><ref name="Houterman and Koppes"/>
| align = right | 20 February 1943
| align = right | 15 October 1943
| align = left | HMS ''Hannibal'' (base, Algiers/Taranto)
| align = left | ''Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean Fleet''.
|-valign = top
| align = left | Admiral [[John Cunningham (Royal Navy officer)|Sir John Cunningham]]<ref name="World War II RN Officers C"/><ref name="Houterman and Koppes"/>
| align = right | 15 October 1943
| align = right | February 1946
| align = left | {{HMS|Hannibal|shore establishment|6}} (base, Algiers/Taranto)
| align = left | ''Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean Station & Allied Naval Commander Mediterranean''
|-valign = top
| align = left | Admiral [[Algernon Willis|Sir Algernon Willis]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/db/node.xsp?id=EAD%2FGBR%2F0014%2FWLLS |title=Papers of Admiral Sir Algernon U. Willis |website=Janus}}</ref>
| align = right | 1946
| align = right | 1948
| align = left | {{HMS|St Angelo}} (base, Malta)<ref name="S.W.C. Pack, 1971"/>
| align = left |
|-valign = top
| align = left | Admiral [[Arthur Power|Sir Arthur Power]]
| align = right | 1948
| align = right | 1950
| align = left | HMS ''St Angelo'' (base, Malta)<ref name="S.W.C. Pack, 1971"/>
| align = left | ''Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean''
|-valign = top
| align = left | Admiral [[John Edelsten|Sir John Edelsten]]
| align = right | 1950
| align = right | 1952
| align = left | HMS ''St Angelo'' (base, Malta)<ref name="S.W.C. Pack, 1971"/>
| align = left | ''Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean''
|-valign = top
| align = left | Admiral [[Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma|Earl Mountbatten of Burma]]
| align = right | 1952
| align = right | 1954
| align = left | HMS ''St Angelo'' (base, Malta)<ref name="S.W.C. Pack, 1971"/>
| align = left | ''Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean''
|-valign = top
| align = left | Admiral [[Guy Grantham|Sir Guy Grantham]]<ref>List from 1954 to 1964 from list at AFNORTH article</ref>
| align = right | 10 Dec 1954
| align = right | 10 Apr 57
| align = left | HMS ''St Angelo'' (base, Malta)<ref name="S.W.C. Pack, 1971"/>
| align = left |
|-valign = top
| align = left | Vice Admiral [[Ralph Edwards (Royal Navy officer)|Sir Ralph Edwards]]
| align = right | 10 Apr 57
| align = right | 11 Nov 58
| align = left | HMS ''St Angelo'' (base, Malta)<ref name="S.W.C. Pack, 1971"/>
| align = left |
|-valign = top
| align = left | Admiral [[Sir Charles Lambe]]
| align = right | 11 Nov 58
| align = right | 2 Feb 59
| align = left | HMS ''Phoenicia'' (base, Malta)<ref name="S.W.C. Pack, 1971"/>
| align = left |
|-valign = top
| align = left | Admiral [[Alexander Bingley|Sir Alexander Bingley]]
| align = right | 2 Feb 59
| align = right | 30 Jun 61
| align = left | HMS ''Phoenicia'' (base, Malta)<ref name="S.W.C. Pack, 1971"/>
| align = left |
|-valign = top
| align = left | Admiral [[Deric Holland-Martin|Sir Deric Holland-Martin]]
| align = right | 30 Jun 61
| align = right | 1 Feb 64
| align = left | HMS ''Phoenicia'' (base, Malta)<ref name="S.W.C. Pack, 1971"/>
|-valign = top
| align = left | Admiral [[John Graham Hamilton|Sir John Hamilton]]{{r|grove|page1=297}}
| align = right | 1 Feb 1964
| align = right | 5 June 1967
| align = left | HMS ''St Angelo'' (base, Malta)<ref name="S.W.C. Pack, 1971"/>
| align = left |
|}

====Chief of Staff====
The Chief of Staff was the principal staff officer (PSO), who is the coordinator of the supporting staff or a primary [[aide-de-camp]] to the Commander-in-Chief.
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Name !! Date/s !! Notes/Ref
|-
| [[Chief of Staff Mediterranean Fleet]] || 1893 to 1967 ||{{efn|The Chief of Staff was the principal staff officer (PSO), who is the coordinator of the supporting staff or a primary aide-de-camp to the Commander-in-Chief.}}<ref name="Houterman and Koppes"/>
|-
| [[Additional Chief of Staff, Mediterranean Fleet]] ||1943 to 1944 ||{{efn|The Additional Chief of Staff was the staff officer responsible for providing administrative support to the principle staff officer (PSO).}}<ref name="Houterman and Koppes"/>
|-
|}

====Fleet Headquarters====
The Mediterranean Fleets shore headquarters was initially based at [[Port Mahon Dockyard]], [[Minorca]] for most of the eighteenth century. It rotated between [[Gibraltar]] and [[Malta]] from 1791 to 1812. From 1813 to July 1939 it was permanently at [[Malta Dockyard]]. In August 1939 the C-in-C Mediterranean Fleet moved his HQ afloat on board {{HMS|Warspite|03|6}} until April 1940. He was then back onshore at Malta until February 1941. He transferred it again to HMS ''Warspite'' until July 1942. In August 1942 headquarters were moved to [[Alexandria]] where they remained from June 1940 to February 1943. HQ was changed again but this time in rotation between [[Algiers]] and [[Taranto]] until June 1944.<ref name="Houterman and Koppes"/> It then moved back to Malta until it was abolished in 1967.

=====Senior Flag Officers with fleet responsibilities=====

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! In command unit or formation !! Date/s !! Notes/Ref
|-
| [[Second-in-Command, Mediterranean Fleet]] || 1861–1939 || <ref>{{cite web |last1=Mackie |first1=Colin |title=Royal Navy Senior Appointments from 1865 |url=http://www.gulabin.com/armynavy/pdf/Senior%20Royal%20Navy%20Appointments%201865-.pdf |website=gulabin.com |publisher=Gordon Mackie, July 2018 |access-date=27 September 2018 |page=147}}</ref> 
|-
| [[Vice-Admiral Commanding, Light Forces and Second-in-Command Mediterranean Fleet]] || 1940–1942 ||<ref name="Houterman and Koppes"/>  
|-
| [[Vice-Admiral (D) Commanding, Mediterranean Fleet Destroyers]] || 1922 to 1965 ||<ref name="Houterman and Koppes"/> {{efn|Command of the Mediterranean Fleets destroyer flotillas rotated between flag officers different ranks such as Vice-Admiral (D)}}
|-
| [[Flag Officer, Air and Second-in-Command, Mediterranean Fleet]] || 1947–1958 ||<ref name="Houterman and Koppes"/> 
|-
| [[Flag Officer, Mediterranean Aircraft Carriers]] ||1940 to 1943 ||<ref>{{cite web |last1=Watson |first1=Graham |title=Royal Navy Organisation in World War 2, 1939–1945 |url=https://www.naval-history.net/xGW-RNOrganisation1939-45.htm#32 |website=www.naval-history.net |publisher=Gordon Smith |date=19 September 2015}}</ref>
|-
| [[Rear-Admiral (D) Commanding, Mediterranean Fleet Destroyers]] ||1922 to 1965 ||<ref name="Houterman and Koppes"/>{{efn|Command of the Mediterranean Fleets destroyer flotillas rotated between flag officers different ranks such as [[Rear admiral (D)|Rear-Admiral (D)]]}} 
|-
| [[Rear-Admiral, Mediterranean Fleet]] || 1903 to 1905 || <ref>{{cite web |last1=Mackie |first1=Colin |title=Royal Navy Senior Appointments from 1865 |url=http://www.gulabin.com/armynavy/pdf/Senior%20Royal%20Navy%20Appointments%201865-.pdf |website=gulabin.com |publisher=Gordon Mackie, July 2018 |access-date=28 September 2018 |page=148}}</ref> 
|-
| [[Commodore (D) Commanding, Mediterranean Fleet Destroyers]] ||1922 to 1965||<ref name="Houterman and Koppes"/> {{efn|Command of the Mediterranean Fleets destroyer flotillas rotated between flag officers different ranks such as Commodore (D)}} 
|-
|}

==Subordinate formations==
''Note: At various times included the following''.

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! In command of unit or formation !! Date/s !! Notes and Ref
|-
| [[Admiral Superintendent Malta]] || 1832 to 1934 ||<ref name="Houterman and Koppes"/>
|-
| [[Commodore, Adriatic Patrols]] ||1915 to 1918   ||<ref>{{cite book |last1=Halpern |first1=Paul G. |title=The Battle of the Otranto Straits: Controlling the Gateway to the Adriatic in World War I |date=2004 |publisher=Indiana University Press |location=USA |isbn=025311019X |page=130 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4NrQnWliFxUC&q=Commodore%2C+Adriatic+Patrols&pg=PA130 |language=en}}</ref> 
|-
| [[Commodore-in-Charge, Algiers]] || December 1942 to February 1943 ||<ref name="Houterman and Koppes"/>{{efn|Commodore, Algeria reported to the C-in-C, Med Fleet from December 1942 to February 1943 the officer then reports to C-in-C, Levant until December 1943}}
|-
| [[Commodore, Smyrna]] || 1919 to 1920 || <ref>{{cite book |title=The Navy List |date=April 1920 |publisher=H.M. Stationery Office |location=London, England |page=697 |chapter=Flag Officers in Commission}}</ref>
|-
| [[Commodore Commanding, British Adriatic Force]] ||1917  to 1919||
|-
| [[Commodore Commanding, Red Sea Division]] ||1884 to 1885||
|-
| Flag Officer Commanding [[Force H]] || 1940 to 1941 ||<ref name="Houterman and Koppes"/>
|-
| [[Flag Officer Commanding, Red Sea and Canal Area]] ||May 1942 to February 1943 || 
|-
| [[Flag Officer Gibraltar|Flag Officer, Gibraltar]] || 1902 to 1939, 1946 to 1967 ||<ref name="Houterman and Koppes"/>
|-
| [[Flag Officer, Gibraltar and North Atlantic]] || May to November 1939 ||<ref name="Houterman and Koppes"/>{{efn|The Flag Officer, Gibraltar and North Atlantic was elevated to the rank of Admiral from November 1939 until 1943 and did not report to the C-in-C, Med Fleet during this period }}
|-
| [[Flag Officer, Gibraltar and Mediterranean Approaches]] || 1943 to 1946 ||<ref name="Houterman and Koppes"/>
|-
| [[Flag Officer, Levant and East Mediterranean]] || 1944 to 1946 ||<ref name="Houterman and Koppes"/>
|-
| [[Flag Officer, Malta]] || 1934 to 1943, 1946 to 1963 ||<ref name="Houterman and Koppes"/>
|-
| [[Flag Officer, Malta and Central Mediterranean]] || 1943 to 1946 || 
|-
| [[Flag Officer, Red Sea]] ||October 1941 to May 1942 ||{{efn|The Senior Officer, Red Sea Force was established in 1939 who reported to the [[Commander-in-Chief East Indies Station|Commander-in-Chief, East Indies Station]]. On 21 October 1941 the title is changed to the Flag Officer Commanding, Red Sea and his command but now reporting to the [[Commander-in-Chief Mediterranean Fleet|Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean Fleet]] until 17 May 1942. On 18 May 1942 the title is changed again to Flag Officer, Commanding Red Sea and Canal Area and his reporting line changed again to the [[Commander-in-Chief, Eastern Fleet]].}} 
|-
| [[Flag Officer, Western Mediterranean]] || July 1944 to May 1945 ||  
|-
| [[Rear-Admiral, Alexandria]] ||1939 to 1944 ||<ref name="Houterman and Koppes"/>{{efn|Rear-Admiral, Alexandria reported to the C-in-C, Med Fleet from November 1939 to February 1943 the officer then reports to C-in-C, Levant until December 1943}}
|-
| [[Rear-Admiral, Egypt and Red Sea]] || 1917 to 1920 ||  
|-
| [[Rear-Admiral, Training Establishment Mediterranean]] || May to August 1942 ||<ref name="Houterman and Koppes"/>
|-
| [[Rear-Admiral Commanding 1st Cruiser Squadron]] || 1914 to 1915, 1924 to 1939, 1947 to 1955 || <ref name="Houterman and Koppes"/>
|-
| [[Rear-Admiral Commanding 2nd Cruiser Squadron]] || 1946 to 1947 ||  
|-
| [[Rear-Admiral Commanding 3rd Cruiser Squadron|Rear-Admiral Commanding, 3rd Cruiser Squadron]] || 1939 to 1941 || <ref name="Houterman and Koppes"/>
|-
| Rear-Admiral Commanding, [[6th Cruiser Squadron]] || 1910 to 1912 ||  
|-
| [[Rear-Admiral Commanding, 12th Cruiser Squadron]] || 1942 to 1943 ||  
|-
| [[Rear-Admiral Commanding, 15th Cruiser Squadron]] || 1942 to 1944 ||<ref name="Houterman and Koppes"/>
|-
| [[Rear-Admiral Commanding, Black Sea, Caspian Sea and Sea of Marmora]] ||1918 to 1919   ||<ref>{{cite web |title=British Naval Forces – Hansard |url=https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/1919-07-23/debates/0f1f4cae-eae8-4425-a347-94d4a4b6e9e8/BritishNavalForces |website=hansard.parliament.uk |publisher=House of Commons, Hansard, UK |access-date=27 September 2018 |language=en |date=23 July 1919}}</ref>  
|-
| [[Rear-Admiral Commanding, British Adriatic Squadron]] || 1915 to 1917 ||{{efn|The British Adriatic Squadron was later renamed British Adriatic Force}}<ref>{{cite book |last1=Sondhaus |first1=Lawrence |title=The Great War at Sea: A Naval History of the First World War |date=2014 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge, England |isbn=9781107036901 |page=268 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MYf2AwAAQBAJ&q=Commander+British+Adriatic+Squadron&pg=PA268 |language=en}}</ref>  
|-
| [[Rear-Admiral Commanding, British Aegean Squadron]] || 1917 to 1918 ||  
|-
| [[Rear-Admiral Commanding, Mediterranean Cruiser Squadron]] || 1912 || 
|-
| [[Rear-Admiral, Second-in-Command, Eastern Mediterranean Squadron]] || 1915 to 1918 ||{{efn|Rear-Admiral, Second-in-Command, Eastern Mediterranean Squadron reporting to VAdm, Commanding Eastern Mediterranean Squadron.}}
|-
| [[Senior British Naval Officer, Suez Canal Area]] ||1939 to 1942 ||<ref name="Houterman and Koppes"/>
|-
| [[Senior Naval Officer-in-Charge, Suez]] ||1941 to 1942||<ref>{{cite web |last1=Harley |first1=Simon |last2=Lovell |first2=Tony |title=Suez – The Dreadnought Project |url=http://www.dreadnoughtproject.org/tfs/index.php/Suez |website=www.dreadnoughtproject.org |publisher=Harley and Lovell |access-date=27 September 2018 |language=en |date=23 August 2018}}</ref>  
|-
| [[Senior Naval Officer, Mudros]] ||1915 to 1918||<ref>{{cite web |last1=Harley |first1=Simon |last2=Lovell |first2=Tony |title=Mudros – The Dreadnought Project |url=http://www.dreadnoughtproject.org/tfs/index.php/Mudros |website=www.dreadnoughtproject.org |publisher=Harley and Lovell |access-date=27 September 2018 |language=en |date=19 August 2018}}</ref>  
|-
| [[Vice-Admiral Commanding 1st Battle Squadron]] || 1939 to 1941 ||<ref name="Houterman and Koppes"/>
|-
| [[Vice-Admiral Commanding, 2nd Aircraft Carrier Squadron]] ||1947 to 1951 ||  
|-
| [[Vice-Admiral Commanding Battlecruiser Squadron|Vice-Admiral Commanding, Battlecruiser Squadron]] ||1947 to 1951 ||  
|-
| [[Vice-Admiral Commanding, Eastern Mediterranean Squadron]] || 1937 to 1939 ||  
|-
| [[Vice-Admiral-in-Charge, Malta]] || 1937 to 1941 ||<ref name="Houterman and Koppes"/>
|-
|}

Parts of the [[Admiral of Patrols]]' [[Auxiliary Patrol]] during World War One were within the Mediterranean. Several patrol zones were under British authority.

=== Major support sub-commands ===
''Note: At various times included the following''.

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! In command of unit or formation !! Date/s !! Notes and Ref
|-
| [[Principal Naval Transport Officer, Mudros]] || 31 August 1915 – 20 January 1916 ||Commodore-in-Command<ref>{{cite web |last1=Harley |first1=Simon |last2=Lovell |first2=Tony |title=Mudros – The Dreadnought Project |url=http://www.dreadnoughtproject.org/tfs/index.php/Mudros |website=www.dreadnoughtproject.org |publisher=Harley and Lovell |access-date=29 September 2018 |language=en |date=19 August 2018}}</ref>
|-
| [[Principal Naval Transport Officer, Salonika]] || 20 January 1916 – June, 1916 ||Commodore-in-Command<ref>{{cite web |last1=Harley |first1=Simon |last2=Lovell |first2=Tony |title=Mudros – The Dreadnought Project |url=http://www.dreadnoughtproject.org/tfs/index.php/Salonika |website=www.dreadnoughtproject.org |publisher=Harley and Lovell |access-date=29 September 2018 |language=en |date=23 August 2018}}</ref>
|-
|}

==== Minor shore sub-commands ====

Included:{{efn|In February 1943 all existing shore based commands were transferred under the [[Commander-in-Chief, Levant]] until January 1944 they then came back under the control of the C-in-C Med Fleet.}}

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Location !! In Command !! Dates !! Notes/Ref
|-
| [[Aden]] || [[Naval Officer-in-Charge, Aden]] ||1935 to 1938 || <ref name="Houterman and Koppes"/>
|-
| [[Alexandria]] ||[[Naval Officer-in-Charge, Cyprian Ports]]|| 1941 to 1943 ||<ref name="Houterman and Koppes"/>
|-
| [[Annaba|Bone]] ||[[Naval Officer-in-Charge, Bone]]|| January to February 1943 ||<ref name="Houterman and Koppes"/>
|-
| [[Bougie]] ||[[Naval Officer-in-Charge, Bougie]]||January to February 1943   ||<ref name="Houterman and Koppes"/>
|-
| [[Brindisi]] ||[[British Senior Naval Officer, Brindisi]]||1916 to 1918  ||<ref>{{cite web |last1=Harley |first1=Simon |last2=Lovell |first2=Tony |title=Brindisi – The Dreadnought Project |url=http://www.dreadnoughtproject.org/tfs/index.php/Brindisi |website=www.dreadnoughtproject.org |publisher=Harley and Lovell |access-date=28 September 2018 |language=en |date=19 July 2017}}</ref> 
|-
|[[Genoa]]  ||[[Senior Naval Officer, Genoa]]|| 1919 ||
|-
| [[Gibraltar]] ||[[Senior Officer, Gibraltar]]||1889 to 1902 ||<ref>{{cite web|last1=Harley|first1=Simon|last2=Lovell|first2=Tony|title=Gibraltar – The Dreadnought Project|url=http://www.dreadnoughtproject.org/tfs/index.php/Gibraltar|website=www.dreadnoughtproject.org|publisher=Harley and Lovell, 26 November 2017|access-date=27 September 2018|language=en}}</ref>
|-
| [[Haifa]] ||[[Naval Officer in Charge, Haifa]]||1935 to 1939 ||<ref name="Houterman and Koppes"/>
|-
| [[Haifa]] ||[[Naval Officer-in-Charge, Palestinian Ports]]||1940 to 1943 ||<ref name="Houterman and Koppes"/>
|-
| [[Mersa Matruh]] ||[[Naval Officer-in-Charge, Mersa Matruh]]||1941 to 1943  ||<ref name="Houterman and Koppes"/>
|-
| [[Mudros]] ||[[Captain of Base, Mudros]]||1918 to 1920   || <ref>{{cite web |last1=Harley |first1=Simon |last2=Lovell |first2=Tony |title=Mudros – The Dreadnought Project |url=http://www.dreadnoughtproject.org/tfs/index.php/Mudros |website=www.dreadnoughtproject.org |publisher=Harley and Lovell |access-date=28 September 2018 |language=en |date=19 August 2018}}</ref> 
|-
| [[Philippeville, Algeria|Phillippeville]] ||[[Naval Officer-in-Charge, Phillippeville]]||January to February 1943   ||<ref name="Houterman and Koppes"/>
|-
| [[Port Said]] ||[[Naval Officer-in-Charge, Port Said]]|| December, 1916 to February 1943 ||<ref name="Houterman and Koppes"/>
|-
| [[Salonika]] ||[[Divisional Naval Transport Officer, Salonika]]|| 26 January 1917 to 16 April 1919 ||
|-
| [[Taranto]] ||[[Senior Naval Officer, Taranto]]|| December, 1918 to March 1919 ||<ref>{{cite web |last1=Harley |first1=Simon |last2=Lovell |first2=Tony |title=Taranto – The Dreadnought Project |url=http://www.dreadnoughtproject.org/tfs/index.php/Taranto |website=www.dreadnoughtproject.org |publisher=Harley and Lovell |access-date=28 September 2018 |language=en |date=23 August 2018}}</ref> 
|-
| [[Trieste]] ||[[Naval Transport Officer in Charge, Trieste]]||January 1916 to December 1918 ||<ref>{{cite web |last1=Harley |first1=Simon |last2=Lovell |first2=Tony |title=Trieste – The Dreadnought Project |url=http://www.dreadnoughtproject.org/tfs/index.php/Trieste |website=www.dreadnoughtproject.org |publisher=Harley and Lovell |access-date=28 September 2018 |language=en |date=21 August 2018}}</ref> 
|-
|}

==Notes==
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==References==
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==Further reading==
* Corbett, Julian Stafford. ''England in the Mediterranean; a study of the rise and influence of British power within the Straits, 1603–1713'' (1904) [https://archive.org/details/englandinmediter01corb/page/n10/mode/2up online]
* D'Angelo, Michela. "In the 'English' Mediterranean (1511–1815)." ''Journal of Mediterranean Studies'' 12.2 (2002): 271–285.
* Dietz, Peter. ''The British in the Mediterranean'' (Potomac Books Inc, 1994).
* Haggie, Paul. "The royal navy and war planning in the Fisher era." ''Journal of Contemporary History'' 8.3 (1973): 113–131. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/260283 online]
*{{cite book|editor=Halpern, Paul|title=The Mediterranean Fleet, 1919–1929|year=2011|publisher=Ashgate for the Navy Records Society|series=Publications of the Navy Records Society|volume=158|location=Farnham, Surrey, UK|isbn=978-1-409427-56-8}}
* Hattendorf, John B., ed. ''Naval Strategy and Power in the Mediterranean: Past, Present and Future'' (Routledge, 2013).
* Holland, Robert. ''Blue-water empire: the British in the Mediterranean since 1800'' (Penguin UK, 2012). [https://www.amazon.com/Blue-Water-Empire-British-Mediterranean-since-ebook/dp/B006JP113U/ excerpt]
* Holland, Robert. "Cyprus and Malta: two colonial experiences." ''Journal of Mediterranean Studies'' 23.1 (2014): 9–20.
* Pack, S.W.C ''Sea Power in the Mediterranean'' – has a complete list of fleet commanders
* Syrett, David. "A Study of Peacetime Operations: The Royal Navy in the Mediterranean, 1752–5." ''The Mariner's Mirror'' 90.1 (2004): 42–50.
*  Williams, Kenneth. '' Britain And The Mediterranean'' (1940) [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.48597/page/n3/mode/2up online free]

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