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