The British North America and West Indies Station-- Part 3

Halifax, Canada, was the main base for the Royal Navy during the Seven Years War (French and Indian), American Revolution and War of 1812.

In 1818, Halifax became the summer base of operations of the N.A.& W.I. Station (North American and West Indies).   For the rest of the year, headquarters was switched to Bermuda.

Bermuda was chosen, besides the weather, as a base from which the British Navy could better watch the United States.

Brock-Perry

The British North America and West Indies Station-- Part 2

Evidently, the Atlante source, Naval Database, had it wrong when it referred to the station as the North America and West Indies, as, according to Wikipedia, the West Indies and North America stations were separate intil 1818 when the two combined.

Then, it was renamed the America and West Indies Station in 1926. The two stations were formed to counter French forces in North America back in 1745. For its first 60 years, the North America Station was headquartered at Halifax Naval Yard in Nova Scotia, now CFB Halifax.

The land and buildings were purchased by the Royal Navy Dockyard in 1758 and commissioned in 1759. 

Keeping It Shorter Than Usual Because of These Darn Run-On Paragraphs. --Brock-Perry

The North America and West Indies Station-- Part 1

Wikipedia.

The HMS Atalante made captures while on, what the source called, the British North America and West Indies Station, something I'd never heard of.

It is a formation of command for England's Royal Navy in the Western Hemisphere. much like during the Civil War when the Union had such naval groups at the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron or the West Gulf Blockading Squadron or the U.S. Navy had the African Squadron before the Civil War to stop slavers and the Neutrality Patrol before the country entered World War II.

I have written about these in my Civil War blogs and World War I blog.

More to Come. --Brock-Perry

--Brock-Perry