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2 unusual facts about Home Fleet


Home Fleet

With the Cold War, greater emphasis was placed on protecting the North Atlantic from the Soviet Union in concert with other countries as part of NATO.

Madden baronets

He was succeeded by his son, the second Baronet, who was also a distinguished naval officer and served as Commander-in-Chief of the Home Fleet between 1963 and 1965.



see also

Charles Madden

Sir Charles Madden, 2nd Baronet (1906–2001), son of the 1st Baronet, also a Royal Navy admiral, Commander-in-Chief of the Home Fleet 1963–1965

William Jason Maxwell Borthwick

In the second half of 1942, working in the Home Fleet in the Navy's only operational radar-fitted Fleet carrier, Jason Borthwick in HMS Victorious was mastering the art of intercepting long-range Focke-Wulf Fw 200 aircraft.