This is a list of shore establishments (or stone frigates) of the Royal Navy and Corps of Royal Marines.
Current Royal Navy shore establishments
Naval bases (HMNB Devonport, Devonport, Devon) (HMNB Portsmouth, Portsmouth) (HMNB Clyde, Faslane, Dunbartonshire)
Air stations (RNAS Culdrose, Cornwall) RNAS Predannack (RNAS Yeovilton, Somerset) RNAS Merryfield (formerly known as RNAS Prestwick, South Ayrshire)
Training establishments (Fareham, Hampshire) (Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, Devon) Includes Hindostan as static training ship (Whale Island, Portsmouth) (Torpoint, Cornwall) Includes Brecon as static training ship (Gosport, Hampshire) HMS Temeraire (Royal Navy School of Physical Training, Portsmouth) Defence Diving School (Horsea Island, Portsmouth)
Other , (Rosyth Dockyard, Fife) , Administrative aggregation of Royal Navy personnel based in the United States Institute of Naval Medicine (Alverstoke, Hampshire) Northwood Headquarters (Northwood, Hertfordshire, England), formerly HMS Warrior. Operational HQ for Commander Operations
Defence Munitions Centres Formerly Royal Naval Armaments Depot and formally elements of Defence Equipment and Support. DM Beith RNAD Coulport DM Crombie DM Gosport
Testing establishments Vulcan Naval Reactor Test Establishment (HMS Vulcan) (Dounreay, Thurso, Caithness) Currently being decommissioned, to be demolished by 2033
Overseas naval facilities United Kingdom Naval Support Facility, HMS Jufair (Mina Salman Port, Bahrain) East Cove Military Port (Mare Harbour, Falkland Islands) Port of Gibraltar (Gibraltar) UK Joint Logistics Support Base (Duqm, Oman) British Defence Singapore Support Unit (Sembawang, Singapore) ("The White Ensign is still flying above the operations of Naval Party 1022 (NP1022), based at Sembawang Wharves in Singapore.")
Diego Garcia (British Indian Ocean Territory)
Current Royal Marines establishments
Bases Commando Training Centre Royal Marines, Lympstone, Devon RM Stonehouse, Plymouth, Devon – Headquarters, UK Commando Force and 30 Commando (IX) Group RM Poole, Poole, Dorset – Special Boat Service and 148 (Meiktila) Commando Forward Observation Battery RM Condor, Arbroath, Angus – 45 Commando and 7 (Sphinx) Commando Battery RM Tamar, HMNB Devonport – 47 Commando (Raiding Group) RM Norton Manor, Taunton, Somerset – 40 Commando RM Bickleigh, Plymouth, Devon – 42 Commando RM Chivenor, Braunton, Devon – Commando Logistic Regiment and 24 Commando Royal Engineers RM Instow, Instow, Devon – 11 Amphibious Trials and Training Unit Camp Viking, Øverbygd, Norway – Arctic operations base for Littoral Response Group (North)
Significant RM presences are also located in HMNB Portsmouth HMNB Clyde – 43 Commando Fleet Protection Group MOD St Athan – A company sized contingent as part of SFSG RNAS Yeovilton – Commando Helicopter Force Bovington Camp – Viking Squadron Bardufoss Air Station – Commando Helicopter Force
Royal Marines Band Service HMS Nelson, HMNB Portsmouth – Band of HM Royal Marines School of Music HMS Raleigh – Band of HM Royal Marines Plymouth HMS Collingwood – Band of HM Royal Marines Collingwood MoD Caledonia – Band of HM Royal Marines Scotland Commando Training Centre Royal Marines – Band of HM Royal Marines Commando Training Centre
Royal Marines Reserve
Royal Marines Reserve City of London, Wandsworth, London Cambridge Detachment Marlow Detachment Portsmouth Detachment Royal Marines Reserve Bristol, Dorset House, Bristol Lympstone Detachment Plymouth Detachment Poole Detachment Cardiff Detachment Royal Marines Reserve Merseyside, Brunswick Dock, Liverpool Birmingham Detachment Leeds Detachment Manchester Detachment Nottingham Detachment Royal Marines Reserve Scotland, at HMS Caledonia, Rosyth Dockyard Aberdeen Detachment Dundee Detachment Edinburgh Detachment Glasgow Detachment Belfast Detachment Newcastle Detachment
Current Royal Naval Reserve units and establishments The modern Royal Naval Reserve has fifteen Units (with 3 satellite units). These are:
, Gateshead, Tyne & Wear, England , Cardiff, Wales Tawe Division (Swansea) , Leeds, West Yorkshire, England , Glasgow, Scotland , Liverpool, England , Birmingham, England , Bristol, England , Chicksands, Bedfordshire, England , Lisburn, Northern Ireland , Whale Island, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England , by Tower Bridge, London, England Medway Division (Rochester, Kent) , Rosyth, Fife, Scotland (Within the grounds of HMS Caledonia) Tay Division (Dundee) , Nottingham, England , HMNB Devonport, Plymouth, Devon, England , Northwood, Middlesex, England
Former shore establishments Former Imperial fortresses Admiralty House, Bermuda, Royal Naval Dockyard Bermuda (and HM Naval Base Bermuda (HMS Malabar), Royal Naval Air Station Bermuda, HMCS Somers Isles Royal Navy Dockyard, Gibraltar, HMS Rooke Admiralty House, Halifax, Royal Naval Dockyard, Halifax Admiralty House, Valletta, HM Dockyard Malta
Former naval bases
HMNB Rosyth, (Fife, UK) HMNB Chatham (Kent, UK) Woolwich Dockyard Deptford Dockyard Queenstown Portland Dockyard Scapa Flow Pembroke Dockyard Sheerness Dockyard Simon's Town Dockyard Sihanoukville Dockyard Trincomalee Dockyard Kingston Royal Naval Dockyard Amherstburg Royal Naval Dockyard Esquimalt Royal Navy Dockyard Penetanguishene Naval Yard Naval Shipyards, York (Upper Canada)
Former air stations
HMS Ariel, RNAS Lee-on-Solent, Hampshire, England, 1959 - 1965 (also HMS Daedalus 1939-1960 and 1965-1996) HMS Asbury, RNAS Quonset Point, Rhode Island, USA, 1942-1944 HMS Bambara, RNAS Trincomalee, Trincomalee, Ceylon, 1944-1947 HMS Berhunda, RNAS Colombo Racecourse, Colombo, Ceylon, 1943-1945 , RNAS Stretton, Cheshire, England, 1942-1958 HMS Buzzard (1), RNAS Lympne, Kent, England, 1939 HMS Buzzard (2), RNAS Palisadoes, Kingston, Jamaica 1941-1943 HMS Condor, RNAS Arbroath, Angus, Scotland, 1940-1970 HMS Condor II, RNAS Dundee, Angus, Scotland, 1940-1944 HMS Corncrake, RNAS Ballyhalbert, County Down, Northern Ireland, 1945-1946 HMS Corncrake II, RNAS Kirkistown, County Down, Northern Ireland, 1945-1946 HMS Curlew, RNAS St Merryn, Cornwall, 1953-1956 (previously HMS Vulture 1937-1953) HMS Daedalus, RNAS Lee-on-Solent, Lee-on-the-Solent, Hampshire, England 1939-1960 and 1965-1996 (previously HMS Ariel 1959 - 1965) HMS Daedalus II, RNAS Lympne, Kent, England, 1940 (previously HMS Buzzard 1939) , RNAS Sandbanks, Hampshire, England, 1940-1943 HMS Daedalus II, RNAS Lawrenny Ferry, Pembrokeshire, Wales, 1941-1946 , RNAS Henstridge, Somerset, 1943-1958 HMS Europa II, RNAS Bungay, Suffolk, England 1945-1946 , RNAS Hal Far, Malta, 1946-1965 , RNAS Evanton, Ross and Cromarty, 1944-1948 HMS Flycatcher (1), RNAS Ludham, Norfolk, England, 1944-1945 HMS Flycatcher (2), RNAS Middle Wallop, Hampshire, 1945-1946 HMS Flycatcher (3), RNAS Kai Tak, Hong Kong, 1947 HMS Fulmar, RNAS Lossiemouth, Lossiemouth, Moray, 1946 -1972 HMS Fulmar II, RNAS Milltown, Moray, Scotland, 1946–1977 HMS Gadwall, RNAS Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 1943-1946 (later HMS Gannet III 1946-1959) HMS Gamecock, RNAS Bramcote, Warwickshire, England, 1946-1958 HMS Gannet, RNAS Eglinton, County Down, Northern Ireland, 1943-1959 HMS Gannet II, RNAS Maydown, County Down, Northern Ireland, 1945-1947 (previously HMS Gannet III 1943-1945) HMS Gannet III, RNAS Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 1946-1959 (previously HMS Gadwall 1943-1946) HMS Garuda, RNAS/RNARY Coimbatore, India, 1942-1946 (1), RNAS Hinstock, Shropshire, 1942–1947 HMS Godwit (2), RNAS Peplow, Shropshire, 1947-1949 (was HMS Godwit II 1945-1947) HMS Godwit II, RNAS Weston Park, Weston Park, Shropshire, England, 1944-1945 (1), RNAS Angle, Pembrokeshire, Wales, 1943 (2), RNAS Dale, Pembrokeshire, Wales, 1943-1948 (3), RNAS Brawdy, Pembrokeshire, Wales, 1952-1971 HMS Goldcrest II, RNAS Brawdy, Pembrokeshire, Wales, 1946-1948 HMS Goldfinch, RNAS Takali, Malta, 1945-1953 HMS Goshawk, RNAS Piarco, Trinidad, 1940-1946 , RNAS Dekheila, Alexandria, Egypt, 1940-1946 HMS Heron II (1), RNAS Haldon, Devon, England, 1941-1942 (2), RNAS Charlton Horethorne, Somerset, 1942-1948 , RNAS Culham, Oxfordshire, 1944-1954 HMS Hornbill II, RNAS Beccles, Suffolk, 1945-1953 HMS Hummingbird, RNAS Zeals, Wiltshire, England, 1945-? HMS Jackdaw, RNAS Crail, Fife, 1940-1947 , RNAS Dunino, Fife, Scotland, 1942-1946 (satellite airfield of Crail) , RNAS Worthy Down, Hampshire,Hampshire Railways Remembered. Kevin Robertson & Leslie Oppitz. 1988. . p97 England, 1939-1952 HMS Kilele, RNAS Tanga, Tanganyika, East Africa, 1942-1944 , RNAS Killindini, Mombasa, Kenya, 1942-1944 HMS Landrail, RNAS Machrihanish, Argyll and Bute, Scotland, 1941-1952 , RNAS Campbeltown, Argyll and Bute, Scotland, 1941-1945 (was HMS Landrail 1941) , RNAS Wingfield, South Africa, 1942-1946 HMS Merlin, RNAS Donibristle, Fife, Scotland, 1939–1959 , MONAB I (RNAS Nowra), RAAF Base Nowra, Nowra, New South Wales, Australia, 1944-1945 , MONAB II (RNAS Bankstown), Bankstown Airport, Bankstown, New South Wales, Australia, 1944-1946 , MONAB III (RNAS Schofields), RAAF Station Schofields, Schofields, New South Wales, Australia, 1944-1945 , MONAB IV (RNAS Ponum), NAS Ponam Airfield, Ponam, Admiralty Islands, 1945 , MONAB V (RNAS Jervis Bay), RAAF Jervis Bay, Jervis Bay, Jervis Bay Territory, Australia (later RAAF Base Nowra), 1945-1946 , TAMY I (RNAMY Archerfield), RAAF Station Archerfield, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 1945-1946 , MONAB VI (RNAS Maryborough), RAAF Maryborough, Maryborough, Queensland, Australia (later RAAF Station Schofields), 1945-1946 , MONAB VIII, RNAS Kai Tak, Hong Kong, 1945-1947 , MONAB IX, RNAS Sembawang, Sembawang, Singapore, 1945 , MONAB X, RNAS Middle Wallop, Hampshire, England, 1945 , RNAS Drem, East Lothian, Scotland, 1945-1946 HMS Nighthawk II, RNAS Macmerry, East Lothian, Scotland, 1945 HMS Nightjar, RNAS Inskip, Lancashire, England, 1943-1946 (also known as HMS Inskip) HMS Nile II, RN Air Section Aboukir at RAF Aboukir, Abu Qir, Egypt, 1935-1942 , RNAS Anthorn, Cumbria, England, 1943-1958 HMS Osprey, RNAS Portland, Dorset, England, 1939-1999 , RNAS Fearn, Ross-shire, 1942-1946 , RNAS East Haven, Angus, Scotland, 1943-1949 HMS Peregrine RNAS Ford, West Sussex, England, 1939-1940, 1945-1948 and 1950-1958 , RNARY Fayid, Egypt, 1941-1946 (RN Aircraft Repair Yard) HMS Pintail, RNAS Nutts Corner, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, 1945-1946 HMS Raven, RNAS Eastleigh, Hampshire, England, 1939-1946 , RNAS Burscough, Lancashire, England, 1943-1946 , RNAS Grimsetter, Mainland, Orkney, Scotland, 1943-1945 , RNAS Abbotsinch, Renfrewshire, Scotland, 1943-1963 , RNAS Maydown, County Down, Northern Ireland, 1943-1945 (later HMS Gannet III 1945-1947) , RNAS Sembawang, Singapore, 1945-1947, 1950-1957 and 1963-1971 , RNAS Gosport, Hampshire, England, 1945-1956 (Now ) HMS Sparrowhawk (1), RNAS Hatston, Mainland, Orkney, Scotland, 1939-1945 HMS Sparrowhawk (2), RNAS Halesworth, Suffolk, England, 1945-1946 HMS Spurwing, RNAS Hastings, Freetown, Sierra Leone, 1943-1944 HMS Tern, RNAS Twatt, Mainland, Orkney, Scotland, 1942-1945 HMS Tern II, RNAS Skeabrae, Mainland, Orkney, Scotland, 1945-1946 HMS Tern II, RNAS Hatston, Mainland, Orkney, Scotland, 1945 (was previously HMS Sparrowhawk) HMS Tern III, RNAS Dounreay, Caithness, Scotland, 1945-1946 , RNAS Katukurunda, Ceylon, 1942-1946 HMS Urley, RNAS Ronaldsway, Isle of Man , RNAS Sullur, Coimbatore, India, 1944-1946 HMS Valluru, RNAS Tambaram, Madras, India, 1944-1945 HMS Vulture, RNAS St Merryn, Cornwall, England, 1937-1953 (later HMS Curlew 1953-1956) , RNAS Trelliga, Cornwall, 1940-1955 (live firing range & emergency landing ground) , RNAS Ayr, Ayrshire, Scotland, 1944-1936 HMS Wara, RNAS Komenda, Takoradi, Ghana, 1943
Former Royal Naval Hospitals
RNH Bermuda. RNH Bighi, Malta RNH Gibraltar, Gibraltar RNH Gillingham, in Medway, Kent