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Royal East African Navy
Active1953 – June 1962
CountryBritish East Africa:
  • Kenya
  • Tanganyika
  • Uganda
  • Zanzibar
BranchNavy
Garrison/HQMombasa, Kenya

The Royal East African Navy was a unified naval force of the former British colonies of Kenya, Tanganyika, Uganda, and Zanzibar. It was the colonial forerunner of the Kenyan Navy and Tanzanian Navy.[1] Formed in 1953,[1] it was disbanded on 30 June 1962.[2]

  1. ^ a b Gray, Randal, ed., Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1947–1982, Part II: The Warsaw Pact and Non-Aligned Nations, Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1983, ISBN 0-87021-919-7, p. 308.
  2. ^ Kenya Navy (October 2007). "History of the Kenya Navy: Pre-Independence Navy". Archived from the original on 21 October 2007.

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