HC Deb 26 August 1909 vol 9 c2291
Mr. MITCHELL-THOMSON

asked the First Lord of the Admiralty what are the bases of the First and Second Divisions of the Home Fleet respectively?

Dr. MACNAMARA

These divisions usually cruise in the North Sea or English Channel; they have no fixed base in the ordinary sense of the term, but their usual anchorages will be the Forth and Portland.