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Map showing the location of Spithead within the United Kingdom.
Closeup map of Spithead
Spithead is an area of the Solent and a roadstead off Gilkicker Point in Hampshire, England. It is protected from all winds except those from the southeast. It receives its name from the Spit, a sandbank stretching south from the Hampshire shore for 5 km (3.1 mi). Spithead is 22.5 km (14.0 mi) long by about 6.5 km (4.0 mi) in average breadth. Spithead has been strongly defended since 1864 by four Solent Forts, which complement the Fortifications of Portsmouth.
The Fleet Review is a British tradition that usually takes place at Spithead, where the monarch reviews the massed Royal Navy.
The Spithead mutiny occurred in 1797 in the Royal Navy fleet at anchor at Spithead. It is also the location where HMS Royal George sank in 1782 with the loss of more than 800 lives.
50°45′05″N 1°08′12″W / 50.75140°N 1.13667°W / 50.75140; -1.13667 Spithead is an area of the Solent and a roadstead off Gilkicker Point in Hampshire...
The Spithead and Nore mutinies were two major mutinies by sailors of the Royal Navy in 1797. They were the first in an increasing series of outbreaks of...
Spithead, 15th June 1953, HMSO, Gale and Polden Coronation Spithead Review (1953). Royal Navy. 1953. Thomas, Ray (January 2021). "Coronation Spithead...
The naval Battle of the Solent took place on 18 and 19 July 1545 during the Italian Wars between the fleets of Francis I of France and Henry VIII of England...
Officer Spithead was a senior Royal Navy appointment first established in July 1971. The office holder was responsible for the command of Spithead and wider...
1938. In 1937, he commentated on the Coronation Review of the Fleet at Spithead from his old ship the battleship HMS Nelson. He had met some of his former...
Tauranga early in 1866 and sailed from Auckland arriving back in England at Spithead on 28 June 1866. In 1870 Robley purchased a captaincy for £1,100, and on...
rendezvous never occurred; the continental allies failed to capitalise on the Spithead and Nore mutinies that paralysed the British Channel forces and North Sea...
July, Victoria and the royal family attended a Jubilee Fleet Review at Spithead offshore from Portsmouth. Present were more than one hundred Royal Navy...
However, the British fleet was weakened over the rest of the year by the Spithead and Nore mutinies, which kept many ships in port through the summer. On...
in three wars but is most notable for being one of the catalysts of the Spithead Mutiny in 1797 after ordering his marines to fire on a deputation of mutinous...
HMS Newcastle on 15 June. With the War of 1812 ongoing, Newcastle sailed from Spithead on 23 June as escort to a convoy travelling to Halifax, Nova Scotia. The...
Germany, the High Seas Fleet was received by the British Royal Navy in Spithead. Later that year, Admiral Henning von Holtzendorff became the fleet commander...
Vice-Admiral Sir George Carew c. 1504 1545 Lost in sinking of the Mary Rose off Spithead during the Italian War Devon 1529 Marshal of the Army in France Sir Ralph...
Former MEP for Surrey (1979–1984) and Surrey West (1984–1989) Lord West of Spithead 9 July 2007 Labour Life peer Former admiral Lord Wharton of Yarm 2 September...
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