Royal Navy North American fleet
Fleet · Great Britain · April 19, 1775 – November 25, 1783
The Royal Navy's North American Station under Graves, Richard Howe, Arbuthnot and Thomas Graves, based at Boston, Halifax and New York.
Recorded for American Revolutionary War.
Engagements 3
Movements
- Boston harbour (Siege of Boston) · map
- At sea, the Gulf of Maine (route and date approximate) · map
- Halifax · map
- At sea, south of Nantucket (route and date approximate) · map
- Lower New York Bay and New York harbour · map
- Sails from Sandy Hook with Howe's army · map
- At sea, off the Delaware capes (route and date approximate) · map
- At sea, the mouth of the Chesapeake (route and date approximate) · map
- Lands the army at Head of Elk · map
- At sea, the mouth of the Chesapeake (route and date approximate) · map
- Enters the Delaware · map
- Reduces Fort Mifflin and opens the Delaware to Philadelphia · map
- Sandy Hook: guards New York against d'Estaing · map
- Off Newport; scattered by the storm · map
- New York · map
- Arbuthnot sails with Clinton for Charleston · map
- At sea, off Cape Hatteras (route and date approximate) · map
- Off Charleston · map
- Runs past Fort Moultrie into Charleston harbour (Siege of Charleston) · map
- At sea, off Cape Hatteras (route and date approximate) · map
- Back at New York · map
- Watches the French at Newport from Gardiners Bay · map
- Battle of Cape Henry · map
- New York · map
- Battle of the Chesapeake (Battle of the Chesapeake) · map
- Refits at New York · map
- Arrives off the Chesapeake too late to relieve Yorktown · map
- New York until the evacuation · map