HMS Roland (DD-476): Difference between revisions

First commissioned on 23 May, 2012, ''Roland'' launched in [[Tenth Fleet]] under the command of [[LCDR]] Jack Yeager. <ref name="BSD120502">[[Orders:BuShips Directive 1205-02]]</ref> Under this crew, HMS ''Roland'' had the distinction of being the first commissioned chapter within that fleet, and for special dedication, was awarded the RMU along with the rest of TG91.1; she was assigned to said task group by Naval Directive 14JU-01 on 17 June, 2014<ref name="ND14JU01">[[Naval Directive 14JU-01]]</ref> and subsequently as a part of [[Destroyer Division 231]] within that formation<ref name="ND16JUN01">[[Orders:Naval Directive 16JUN-01]]</ref>. While active, this chapter attended and participated in [[FleetEx_FresCon_2016|FresCon]]. This iteration was placed into the Active Reserve on 23 August, 2016, as the chapter upgraded to the ''Invictus''-class [[Superdreadnought]] {{hms|Intractable|SD-459}} <ref name="BSD1608-07">[[Orders:BuShips Directive 1608-07]]</ref>.

''Roland'' was the seed of several [[Tenth Fleet]] chapters across the San Francisco Bay Area and Central California. In January 2014 she launched Pinnace Roland-01 at San Francisco,<ref name="BSD140104">[[Orders:BuShips Directive 1401-04]]</ref> which was commissioned that April as the ''Nike''-class [[Battlecruiser]] {{hms|Artemis|BC-592}}, the pinnace returning to ''Roland'' for further use.<ref name="BSD140403">[[Orders:BuShips Directive 1404-03]]</ref> ''Artemis'' expanded in November 2015 into the [[Superdreadnought]] {{hms|Medusa|SD-316}} under [[CDRE]] Michael Garcia, who had served as ''Artemis'''s founding bosun.<ref name="BSD151108">[[Orders:BuShips Directive 1511-08]]</ref> A ''Roland'' plankowner, Jack Kane,<ref name="BSD120502" /> likewise carried into the ''Saganami-C''-class [[Heavy Cruiser]] {{hms|Wolf|CA-429}}, commissioned at Ceres in May 2014,<ref name="BSD140507">[[Orders:BuShips Directive 1405-07]]</ref> whose command line under [[CAPTSG]] Sonja Thiede went on to raise the [[Superdreadnought]] {{hms|Thunderer|SD-323}} and the amphibious transport {{hms|Guadalcanal|LPH-02}}.<ref name="BSD160706">[[Orders:BuShips Directive 1607-06]]</ref><ref name="BSD181109">[[Orders:BuShips Directive 1811-09]]</ref> As the fleet's founding chapter and the seed from which a battlecruiser and a superdreadnought were raised, ''Roland'' was central to the [[Tenth Fleet]]'s expansion across Northern and Central California.