Originally Posted by
Blacksheep
The RN do tend to go in for Bases - Portsmouth for example - but maybe the matelots think its a ship? The Naval Base in Singapore was HMS Terror but it never managed to frighten anybody as it was firmly fixed to the island.
Not quite correct. When the RN used to have overseas Fleets and bases, a station was a geographical region in which a particular Fleet was deployed and based. So for example HMS Terror was the Flag HQ of the Far East Station and the home base of the Far East Fleet. Other RN Stations were Home, West Indies, Mediterranean and South Atlantic.
TOG