HMS Eaglet (shore establishment)

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Using a rake, a Wren moves a 'ship' across the numbered grid map on the Plotting Table of the Operations Room at HMS Eaglet.
Career (UK)
Name:	HMS Eaglet
Commissioned:	1904
Status:	Active
General characteristics
Class and type:	Stone frigate

HMS Eaglet is a training centre for the Royal Navy Reserve. It serves Merseyside, North West England and North Wales, HMS Eaglet trains over 300 reservists each year and shares a new building with RMR Merseyside in Liverpool.

Contents 1 History 2 Tenders 3 Famous attendees 4 References

[edit] History

The Mersey Division of the RNVR was established in Customs House, Liverpool in 1904, before moving to HMS Eagle, a 50 gun frigate at Brunswick Dock, in 1911. Mersey Division was mobilised in 1914 to form part of the Royal Naval Division, serving at Gallipoli, the battles of Battle of Vimy Ridge, Passchendaele and Cambrai. To avoid confusion with a newer HMS Eagle, the frigate was renamed HMS Eaglet in 1919. The ship was destroyed in a fire in 1926, and replaced by the First World War 24 class sloop HMS Sir Bevis, which was renamed Eaglet. The new Eaglet was berthed at Salthouse Dock. During the Second World War, Eaglet became the flagship of Commander-in-Chief Western Approaches. In 1971, the sloop was scrapped and HMS Eaglet moved ashore to a new HQ at Princes Dock. In 1993, Eaglet received freedom of the city of Liverpool.

[edit] Tenders

• The River class minesweepers HMS Humber and HMS Ribble until 1995.
• The Archer class patrol vessel HMS Biter at Manchester URNU and HMS Charger at Liverpool URNU, the current tender.

[edit] Famous attendees

• Ian Edward Fraser, VC RNR

[edit] References

• Colledge, J. J. and Warlow, Ben (2006). Ships of the Royal Navy: the complete record of all fighting ships of the Royal Navy, Rev. ed., London: Chatham. ISBN 9781861762818. OCLC 67375475. 
• HMS Eaglet's History