About: HMS Forward (shore establishment 1939)   Sponge Permalink

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Based in a former Guinness Trust Holiday Home, Forward served as the command centre for all Royal Naval establishments in the area and was responsible for: * HMS Marlborough, the Electrical Training School at Eastbourne. * HMS Forward II (renamed HMS Aggressive in 1942), the Coastal Forces base at Newhaven. * The Combined Operations Landing Craft bases of HMS Newt at Newhaven and HMS Lizard at Shoreham and Hove. * HMS Vernon (R), the Torpedo, Mining & Electrical Training Establishment at Roedean School, Brighton. Forward was decommissioned on 31 August 1945.

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  • HMS Forward (shore establishment 1939)
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  • Based in a former Guinness Trust Holiday Home, Forward served as the command centre for all Royal Naval establishments in the area and was responsible for: * HMS Marlborough, the Electrical Training School at Eastbourne. * HMS Forward II (renamed HMS Aggressive in 1942), the Coastal Forces base at Newhaven. * The Combined Operations Landing Craft bases of HMS Newt at Newhaven and HMS Lizard at Shoreham and Hove. * HMS Vernon (R), the Torpedo, Mining & Electrical Training Establishment at Roedean School, Brighton. Forward was decommissioned on 31 August 1945.
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Name
  • HMS Forward
Type
  • Royal Naval Headquarters
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  • 1940(xsd:integer)
Latitude
  • 50(xsd:double)
map type
  • East Sussex
Longitude
  • 0(xsd:double)
Location
  • Newhaven, East Sussex
abstract
  • Based in a former Guinness Trust Holiday Home, Forward served as the command centre for all Royal Naval establishments in the area and was responsible for: * HMS Marlborough, the Electrical Training School at Eastbourne. * HMS Forward II (renamed HMS Aggressive in 1942), the Coastal Forces base at Newhaven. * The Combined Operations Landing Craft bases of HMS Newt at Newhaven and HMS Lizard at Shoreham and Hove. * HMS Vernon (R), the Torpedo, Mining & Electrical Training Establishment at Roedean School, Brighton. In 1941 a complex of tunnels were constructed underground to house a centre which plotted all shipping traffic in the English Channel between Dungeness and Selsey Bill, in conjunction with the coastal radar chain. Forward was decommissioned on 31 August 1945.
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