Commander-in-Chief, South Atlantic
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The Commander-in-Chief South Atlantic was an operational commander of the Royal Navy from 1939. The South American area was added to his responsibilities in 1960, and the post disestablished in 1967.
Commander-in-Chief, South Atlantic | |
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Active | 1914, 1939–1967 |
Country | United Kingdom |
Branch | Royal Navy |
Type | military formation |
Garrison/HQ | Freetown, Simonstown, and Port Stanley |
Immediately before the outbreak of the Second World War, the designation of Commander-in-Chief, Africa was changed to Commander-in-Chief South Atlantic, '..and the Admiral transferred his flag from Simonstown to Freetown, Sierra Leone, and assumed general naval control over British movements in the whole of the South Atlantic Ocean. At the same time, the South Atlantic Division of the America and West Indies Squadron, comprising the cruisers Exeter and Ajax, was transferred to the new South Atlantic Station.'[1] It was sometimes referred to as the South Atlantic Station.