Government of Bermuda, the Royal Naval presence in the North-Western Atlantic and Caribbean had been reduced to only the West Indies Guard Ship, a role which was rotated among the fleet's escorts, which took turns operating extended patrols of the West Indies. Years after the disestablishment of the SNOWI post, the West Indies Guard Ship task was redesignated Atlantic Patrol Task (North). Sub commands Jamaica Division consisting of naval vessels Jamaica Dockyard shore establishment. Commanders in Chief Commanders of the station have included: = died in post Commander-in-Chief, North American Station Commodore James Douglas (1746–48) - appointed Commodore of Newfoundland at this time. Commodore Charles Watson (1748–49) Commodore Augustus Keppel (1751–55) Commodore Lord Colville (November 1759 – October 1762) Commodore Richard Spry (October 1762 – October 1763) Rear Admiral Lord Colville (October 1763 – September 1766) Captain Joseph Deane, September 1766 – November 1766 (senior captain) Captain Archibald Kennedy, November 1766 – July 1767 (senior captain) Commodore Samuel Hood (July 1767 – October 1770) Commodore James Gambier (October 1770 – August 1771) Rear Admiral John Montagu (August 1771 – June 1774) Vice Admiral Samuel Graves (June 1774 – January 1776) Vice Admiral Richard Howe (February 1776 – September 1778) Vice Admiral James Gambier (1778–79) Vice Admiral John Byron (1779) Vice Admiral Mariot Arbuthnot (1779–81) Vice Admiral Sir Thomas Graves (1781) Rear Admiral Robert Digby (1781–83) Rear Admiral Sir Charles Douglas (1783–85) Vice Admiral Sir Herbert Sawyer (1785–89) Vice Admiral Sir Richard Hughes (1789–92) Captain Sir Rupert George (1792-1794) Vice Admiral George Murray (1794–96) Vice Admiral George Vandeput (1797–1800) Vice Admiral Sir William Parker (1800–02) Vice Admiral Sir Andrew Mitchell (1802–06) Vice Admiral Sir George Cranfield Berkeley (1806–07) Vice Admiral Sir John Warren (1807–10) Vice Admiral Sir Herbert Sawyer (1810–13) Admiral Sir John Warren (1813–14) Vice Admiral Sir Alexander Cochrane (1814–15) Vice Admiral Sir David Milne (1816) Vice Admiral Sir Edward Colpoys (1816–21) Commander-in-Chief, North America and West Indies Station Vice Admiral Sir William Fahie (1821–24) Vice Admiral Sir Willoughby Lake (1824–27) Vice Admiral Sir Charles Ogle (1827–30) Vice Admiral Sir Edward Colpoys (1830–32) Vice Admiral Sir George Cockburn (1832–36) Vice Admiral Sir Peter Halkett (1836–37) Vice Admiral Sir Charles Paget (1837–39) Commodore Peter John Douglas (1839) Vice Admiral Sir Thomas Harvey (1839–41) Commodore Peter John Douglas (1841) Vice Admiral Sir Charles Adam (1841–44) Vice Admiral Sir Francis Austen (1844–48) Vice Admiral Sir Thomas Cochrane (1848–51) Vice Admiral Sir George Seymour