Royal Navy Navy currently operates from three bases in the United Kingdom where commissioned ships are based; Portsmouth, Clyde and Devonport, Plymouth—Devonport is the largest operational naval base in the UK and Western Europe. Each base hosts a flotilla command under a commodore, or, in the case of Clyde, a captain, responsible for the provision of operational capability using the ships and submarines within the flotilla. 3 Commando Brigade Royal Marines is similarly commanded by a brigadier and based in Plymouth. Historically, the Royal Navy maintained Royal Navy Dockyards around the world. Dockyards of the Royal Navy are harbours where ships are
William Kerr (Royal Navy officer) William Kerr (Royal Navy officer) Commodore The Hon. William Kerr was a Royal Navy officer who served as Commander-in-Chief of the Jamaica Station. Born a younger son of the Earl of Lothian, Kerr was promoted to post captain on 14 May 1690 on appointment to the command of the fourth-rate HMS "Deptford". He transferred to the command of the fourth-rate HMS "Burlington" in 1696, of the third-rate HMS "Lenox" later the same year and of the third-rate HMS "Eagle" in 1700. He went on to receive the command the third-rate HMS "Revenge" in 1702. Promoted to Commodore, Kerr became Commander-in-Chief