Republic of Haven Navy
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The Republic of Haven Navy (RHN) was the main military force for the Republic of Haven. The officers of the RHN are trained at the Republic of Haven Naval Academy. Ships of the RHN use the prefix RHNS (Republic of Haven Navy Ship). During the time of the People's Republic, ships used the prefix PNS (People's Navy Ship).
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[edit] People's Navy Period
[edit] Timeline
- Following the implementation of the DuQuesne Plan the Republican Navy was renamed the People's Republic of Haven Navy (PRHN), but commonly called People's Navy (PN).
- In roughly the 1850s PD, the Navy started to be the spear head of the PRH's conquests. (HH2)
- In 1880 PD, the PN invaded and conquered the Trevor's Star System using Q-Ships. The same tactics were used in the invasion of the Sheldon System.
- In 1900 PD, the PN was building vessels to help combat the growing guerilla wars against the Republic on various conquered worlds. The PRHN undertook Operation Odysseus to conquer the Basilisk System to take the Basilisk Terminus. The operation was a failure. The fleet sent to the system was blocked by a Royal Manticoran Navy fleet.
- In 1901 PD, the PRHN vessels were banned from using the Manticore Wormhole Junction because of the incident at Medusa. (HH1)
- In 1903 PD, the PRHN sent two vessels, the Sultan-class battlecruiser, PNS Saladin, and the Bastogne-class destroyer, the PNS Breslau, to the Navy of Masada as a gift. The ship's crews were included. The two vessels provided the overwhelming support for the Masadan Fleet at the First Battle of Yeltsin's Star.
[edit] Personnel
The majority of the flag officer positions were filled by Legislaturists. However with patronage system a merit non-Legislaturist would be promoted even to Captain, Commodore or Rear Admiral ranks. (HH2, HH3)
Following the establishment of the Committee of Public Safety, the officer's corps was purged, and promotion became based partially on merit and partially on "political reliability".[1]
[edit] Battleships Use
374 battleships were maintained during the war against the Manticoran Alliance as rear area defensive units. (HH3) However, some of them were used offensively in Operations Dagger, 36 units (1907 PD), and Icarus, over 80 units[2] (1913 PD), as well as defensively during First Battle of Seabring. (HH5, HH8, HH9, HHA4)
All of them were scrapped in the begenning of the Second Havenite-Manticoran War due to manpower demands. (HH11)
[edit] Tactics
[edit] Codes
- Code: Bounty meant that a mutiny is about to take place or is in the process.
- Code: Bounty Four-One meant that retaking a vessel from the mutineers is not possible
[edit] Duties
The duties of the RHN in the latter part of the 1800s PD, and the early part of the 1900s PD were conquering neighboring star systems, controlling the commercial lanes, putting down revolts, boarding and inspecting vessels in Haven space, and to undertake covert missions.
[edit] Uniforms
Navy uniforms were green and gray. (HH7)
[edit] Departments
[edit] Major Operational Commands
Fleets
Independent Task Forces
- Task Force 14
- Task Force 20
- Task Force 29
- Task Force 30
- Rear Admiral Theisman's task force during the First Battle of Seabring
- Rear Admiral Chin's task force in the La Martine Sector
[edit] List of ship classes
- Superdreadnoughts
- Temeraire-class (pod-laying)
- Sovereign of Space-class (pod-laying)
- DuQuesne-class
- Dreadnoughts
- Battleships
- LAC Carriers
- Battlecruisers
- Heavy Cruisers
- Light Cruisers
- Destroyers
- Armed Merchant Cruisers (Q-Ships)
- Light Attack Craft
[edit] Fleet-strength maintained by classes before 1st Havenite war
- Class - Units - Tonnage
- SD - 412 - 2801.6 MT
- DN - 48 - 258.3 MT
- BB - 374 - 1430.6 MT
- BC - 81 - 59.0 MT
- CA - 210 - 54.5 MT
- CL - 354 - 29.8 MT
- DD - 627 - 40.7 MT
- Total - 2106[3] - 4674.5 MT
[edit] Notable Officers and Crewmembers
Due to constantly changing ranks in the books, this list is on the highest rank archived by characters in the books at the time of their last appearance or death. The link to one of the books after the name shows when this rank was either archived or first mentioned
Secretary of War(Civilian Leader)
- Elaine Dumarest (HH1)
- Kline (HH8)
- Esther McQueen(Former Admiral) (HH9)
- Admiral Thomas Theisman (HH9HH10)
Flag Officers
- Admirals
- Chief of Naval Operations
- Fleet Admiral Amos Parnell (HH1)[4]
- Admiral Ivan Bukato (HH8)
- Admiral Thomas Theisman (HH9HH10)
- Admiral
- Genevieve Chin (HH11)
- Coatsworth (HH3)
- Alec Dimitri (HH9)
- Amanda Graveson (HH9)
- Javier Giscard (HH6)
- Horner (HH8)
- Sabrina Longmont (HH8)
- Mládek (HHA4)
- Pierre Redmont (SI2)
- Yuri Rollins (HH3)
- Lester Tourville (HH11)
- Vice Admiral
- Rear Admiral
- Chief of Naval Operations
- Commodore
[edit] Notable Battles
- Invasion of San Martin - 1880 PD
- Invasion of Sheldon - Prior to 1900 PD
- First Battle of Basilisk - 1903 PD
[edit] Notable Ships
[edit] References
- ↑ One of the naval traditions abolished than was the presence of a marine sentry outside a ship captain's quarters. The Committee considered it an "elitist" privilege.
- ↑ There is some inconsistency in HH8 - 81 units were mentioned in 12th Fleet, but the total sum of battleships present in its task forces was 88.
- ↑ There is some inconsistency in HH3, all units mentions adds up to a total of 2106 units but is referred to as 1944 units
- ↑ Parnell is mentioned as CNO in HH1 while the title Fleet Admiral appears in HH3
