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Saturday, August 3, 2013

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

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