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North Sea Squadron
Tudor Green Ensign 1485 to 1603
Active	1543–1563
Allegiance	England Kingdom of England
Branch	Navy Royal
Type	Squadron
Role	Patrol
Part of	Navy Royal
Garrison/HQ	Newcastle, England.
Commanders
Notable commanders	Vice-Admiral, Sir John Dudley, Earl of Warwick

The North Sea Squadron was a temporary naval formation of the Tudor Navy Royal during the sixteenth century operating out of Newcastle, England.

Command of the squadron was usually vested in the Vice-Admiral in the North Sea.

Historical background

The North Sea has traditionally been an important command from the 13th to 15th centuries, when there was an Admiral of the North based at Yarmouth who commanded the Northern Fleet. During the 16th century Admirals and Vice Admirals were appointed to the command in the North Sea though on an temporary basis. From 1652 to 1654 Yarmouth was used by the Royal Navy for the temporary stationing of its North Sea Fleet during the First Anglo-Dutch War. From 1745 the North Sea Fleet became a permanent formation.

In command

Vice-Admiral in the North Sea

• Vice Admiral, Sir Francis Bryan, 1543, (also Vice-Admiral of England).
• Vice-Admiral Sir William Woodhouse, February- 1543–1544.
• Vice-Admiral, Sir John Dudley, Earl of Warwick, January-February 1547.
• Vice-Admiral, William Elmes, March 1547.
• Vice-Admiral, Sir John Henshaw, August-December, 1563.

Footnotes

1. Knighton, Dr C. S.; Loades, Professor David (2013). The Navy of Edward VI and Mary I. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. p. 573. ISBN 9781409482406.
2. Rodger, N.A.M. (1997). "Operations - 1523 to 1550". The safeguard of the sea : a naval history of Britain. Vol 1., 660-1649. London: Penguin. p. 181. ISBN 9780140297249.
3. Rose, Susan (2008). The Naval Miscellany. Farnham, Kent, England: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. p. 67. ISBN 9780754664314.
4. Davies, J. D. (2008). Pepys Navy: Ships, Men and Warfare 1649-89. Seaforth Publishing. p. 195. ISBN 9781783830220.
5. Palmer, Charles John (1856). The History of Great Yarmouth, Designed as a Continuation of Manship's History of that Town. Louis Alfred Meall, The Quay. p. 275.
6. Loades, D. M. (1996). John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland, 1504-1553. Wotton-under-Edge, England: Clarendon Press. p. 55. ISBN 9780198201939.
7. Rose. p.67.
8. Glasgow, Tom (January 1977). "Vice Admiral Woodhouse and Shipkeeping in the Tudor Navy". The Mariner's Mirror. 63 (3): 253–263. doi:10.1080/00253359.1977.10659032. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
9. Loades, David; Knighton, C.S. (2011). The navy of Edward VI and Mary I. Farnham: Ashgate. p. 540. ISBN 9781409418474.
10. Loades, David; Knighton, C.S. (2011). The navy of Edward VI and Mary I. Farnham: Ashgate. p. 541. ISBN 9781409418474.
11. Loades, David; Knighton, C.S. (2011). The navy of Edward VI and Mary I. Farnham: Ashgate. p. 551. ISBN 9781409418474.

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