Permanent historical factsheet

Thirty-Six Sloops Programme

Great Britain · Warfare / World War, 1st. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

1Records
1914Date range
1Named people
1Places

Chronological records

1914

John Arbuthnot Fisher3 November 1914

London · Warfare / World War, 1st

Fisher's 612-vessel programme includes thirty-six sloops for patrol, escort and minesweeping-related duties.

Names involved

John Arbuthnot Fisher

Provenance

This factsheet is generated from stored World History Database records matching the country, broad category, detailed category and exact Event value shown above. Duplicate display records are collapsed; database wording is otherwise preserved. Source provenance varies by record, so formal academic citation should be checked against the relevant primary source, archive or specialist historical reference.