![]() ![]() ![]() On 3 September 1939, Leo Niehorster's site lists the force as comprising the South American Division under Commodore Henry Harwood comprising HMS Exeter, HMS Ajax, and HMS Cumberland the 6th Cruiser Squadron, comprising only HMS Neptune, Vice Admiral George Lyon's flagship the 9th Cruiser Squadron, with HMS Despatch, HMS Danae, HMS Dauntless, and HMS Durban the seaplane carrier HMS Albatross, en route to Freetown from Lee-on-Solent the 7th Submarine Flotilla, of two boats on their way from Gibraltar to Freetown four destroyers, all at Freetown six miscellaneous craft and two harbour vessels, all at Freetown and the Gambia and Gold Coast Naval Volunteer Forces. The South Atlantic Station had bases at Freetown and Simonstown. Its area of responsibility covered the Atlantic Ocean south of a line drawn between the northern French West African (now Mauritanian) border and French Guiana and the Southern Ocean and Indian Ocean east of a line drawn south from the western entrance to the Magellan Strait and west of a line drawn south from the South African/ Mozambican border. ![]() ![]() The South Atlantic Station existed during and after the Second World War having been redesignated from the Commander-in-Chief, Africa. At the same time, the South Atlantic Division of the America and West Indies Squadron, comprising the cruisers Exeter and Ajax, was transferred to the new South Atlantic Station.' It was sometimes referred to as the South Atlantic Station. Immediately before the outbreak of the Second World War, the designation of Commander-in-Chief, Africa was changed to Commander-in-Chief South Atlantic, '.and the Admiral transferred his flag from Simonstown to Freetown, Sierra Leone, and assumed general naval control over British movements in the whole of the South Atlantic Ocean. The South American area was added to his responsibilities in 1960, and the post disestablished in 1967. The Commander-in-Chief South Atlantic was an operational commander of the Royal Navy from 1939. ![]()
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