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The Official Newspaper of the Portsmouth Command

No. 5 OCTOBER 1954

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THE RESERVE FLEET I

TIlE ROYAL NAVY has from car! est maintained ships in reserve with the object of being able to replace ships of the seagoing fleet which require repairs or long refits. and of having spare ships ready to be manned by the Naval Reserves-Royal Fleet Reserve. Roal Naval Reserve. and Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve--ss ho would lie called up on

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mobilisa-tion. Germany

When the war with and Japan caine to an end in 1945, the Royal Na'. v ssas six times its pre-war sue, and as the release I1rosrmme progressed. the majority of the ships in commission had to he paid-oil until the peace-tulle seagoing fleet was reduced to the si/c we could afford to ma ii with our post-war Navy. Those ships which were worn out or for various reasons would not he required in a future sstr were scrapped, but this left over 3t)() ships ;ill(] major landing craft to he placed in reserve-the bulk of them being destroyers and frigates. ,hips bound to he badly needed for on vo\ a tid a nil -sri bnia rifle duties in :lily. future struggle. The t.msk 01 keeping these to be commisships read sioned in the shortest possible time has ohviou sI :ill iiiip..)rt;ince second to none in the Naval Service mud s'. hue the mmLlmL-ers mud rmtmnc mm hose task it is lie tile excteriients and changes ol scene that their opposite 1111111 hers in the seagoing fleets enjoy. thi ha'. e (lie satisfaction (11 knowine. ss mirk is that their essential to the Na'. a tid that the power of the N.m v to cx pa rd in the earls of a depends on how t lie V are fulfilling the trust that is placed iii them.

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1:lttet are dispersed throughout all parts of Britain. of' the Resene some of the ships at Penarth

possible to provide crcss on tire 1939 scale to the ships tif the iriirtieimselv larger Reserve Fleet we limo. e toda . on hoard their armament arid equipTsto sears ago a start was made to Ia'. up ships itt reserve in various cornmercial ports round the coasts, where

ment and carrying out trials, and subsequentlv preservitig those destined for reserve is mill part of the Reserve Fleet's

the are dehumidified and economic- task. The old It.O.A.C. lh itig-ltoat a ll looked a 11cr h ci'. ilia ii shipbui Id- ltase oti Southampton Water was corning finns. 1 Irese slips are dehumidified missioned as H.M.S. I): ligence for this mind so the mirlimiutit oh work required is purpose, while a section of H. sI .S. small, and this redeplo riterit scheme has resulted alre.md in savings of

sshtitidotberwisehavcto f) plo ed look rig after these slips in the I Iorii._ I mirts. An mthcr lilt! tilt tnt ispLct of thc l the Reserve I' heet is that oh work tak iiimu os er from their builders time Ill iii'. sill ill ci mit floss bLliit_ dclisc.rcd CO.ist.i I and irishort. numncsssccpcrs. seas'. ml rd det ence boats and i a st patrol boats of various t pes. The work of I crr 1mg them I roni the builders to H.N1.S. I)ihmgence or ilornet. putting -

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