Company. In January 1944 the station was transferred back from the Mediterranean Fleet to C-in-C East Indies. Commodore Commanding, Red Sea Division Incomplete list of post holders included: Rear-Admiral, Egypt and Red Sea Post holders included: Note:Command is also known as Egypt Division and Red Sea. Senior Naval Officer, Red Sea Patrol Incomplete list of post holders included: Senior Naval Officer, Red Sea Force Senior Naval Officer, Red Sea Incomplete list of post holders included: Flag Officer, Red Sea Senior Naval Officer in Charge, Suez Included: Flag Officer, Commanding Red Sea and Canal Area Commodore Young-Jamieson's broad pennant was seemingly borne in , which was the name used for the base for British naval personnel in Egypt. First established at Port Said, it was commissioned on 8 January 1940. There were outposts at Adabya, Kabrit, Ismailia, Generiffa, Port Tewfik. HMS Stag was paid off in May 1949. HMS Euphrates at Basra seemingly reported to Flag Officer, Red Sea and Canal Area, from its establishment in 1942. Notes References Allen's Indian Mail and Register of Intelligence, for British and Foreign and India and China and all parts of the East. London, England: W. H. Allen and Company. 1846. Brown, David (2013). The Royal Navy and the Mediterranean: Vol.II: November 1940-December 1941. Cambridge, England: Routledge. . Harley, Simon; Lovell, Tony (2018). "Egypt - The Dreadnought Project". www.dreadnoughtproject.org. Harley and Lovell. Houterman, Jerome N..; Koppes, Jeroen (2004–2006). "Royal Navy, Mediterranean Fleet 1939-1945". www.unithistories.com. Houterman and Koppes, Netherlands. Jr, Harold E. Raugh (2008). British Military Operations in Egypt and the Sudan: A Selected Bibliography. Lanham, Maryland, USA: Scarecrow Press. . Kindell, Don (2012). "Admiralty War Diaries: Loss of HMS Khartoum, June 1940". www.naval-history.net. Gordon Smith. Low, Charles Rathbone (1877). History of the Indian Navy: (1613-1863). London, England: R. Bentley and Son. Watson, Dr Graham. (2015) "Royal Navy Organisation in World War 2, 1939-1945". naval-history.net. Gordon Smith. Commands of the Royal Navy Military units and formations established in 1846 Military units and formations disestablished in 1944