Maritime Forces of the Benacian Union

Maritime Forces of the Benacian Union
Active	1703 AN–present
Country	Benacian Union
Branch	Benacian Union Defence Force
Type	Navy
Size	288,452 officers & ratings
Garrison/HQ	Capitolia
Commanders
Grand Admiral	Konstantin Glaubus

The Maritime Forces of the Benacian Union is the naval warfare branch of the Benacian Union Defence Force. The fleets of the Maritime Forces made up a large part of the Union-State's strategic planning in the event of a conflict with the opposing continental great power, the Imperial Republic of Shireroth, during the Shiro-Benacian Cold War. The Maritime Forces played a large role during the aforementioned Cold War, keeping open supply lines between Chryse and the manufacturing hubs of the Community of Goldfield, and potentially interdicting the ability of Shireroth to reinforce the Imperial Forces in Benacia with the massive manpower and industrial resources of Greater Kildare.

It would ultimately fail in its assigned role, and the strategic defeat in the Shiro-Benacian War was blamed primarily on the Maritime Forces, with dire consequences for their wartime leadership.

Organisation

Formations

Fleets of the Maritime Forces

Division no. and name	Commandant	Vessels	Recruiting ethnicity	Assigned Units	Station	Notes
Northern Fleet
3rd Surface Combatant Division	Salbnan-bi-Mari Georg Kempenfelt			59 Command & Control Regiment 1 Vessel Crewing Regiment 7 Vessel Crewing Regiment 13 Vessel Crewing Regiment 19 Vessel Crewing Regiment 25 Vessel Crewing Regiment 31 Vessel Crewing Regiment 37 Vessel Crewing Regiment 21 Commissariat Regiment 41 Commissariat Regiment 71 Inspectorate Regiment 80 Inspectorate Regiment	Dravotih iker
4th Submarine Division					Dravotih iker
7th Support Division					Dravotih iker
Eastern Fleet
2nd Surface Combatant Division					Avakair
5th Submarine Division					Zolt
8th Support Division					Chryse
High Seas Fleet
1st Surface Combatant Division				65 Command & Control Regiment 5 Vessel Crewing Regiment 11 Vessel Crewing Regiment 17 Vessel Crewing Regiment 23 Vessel Crewing Regiment 29 Vessel Crewing Regiment 35 Vessel Crewing Regiment 1 Naval Training Regiment 27 Commissariat Regiment 47 Commissariat Regiment 77 Inspectorate Regiment 86 Inspectorate Regiment	Musica,
6th Submarine Division					Capitolia
9th Support Division					Musica	At Klymhigh until 1732 AN. At Port Benacia until 1747.
Riverine Fleet
1st Riverine Division					Teldrin
2nd Riverine Division					Ardashirshahr
3rd Riverine Division					Szodansdron
Coastguard
10th Inshore Division					Thrallshaven
11th Inshore Division					La Terre
12th Inshore Division					Vanaheim
13th Inshore Division					Gibbet Cove
13th Inshore Division					Goldshire Hamlet	At Rothaven until 1711 AN.
14th Inshore Division	Salbnan-bi-Mari Adelbrand Mogæsz		Babkhi (Agnesian)	76 Command & Control Regiment 6 Port and Maritime Regiment 15 Port and Maritime Regiment 40 Port and Maritime Regiment 15 Commissariat Regiment 34 Commissariat Regiment 102 Inspectorate Regiment 106 Inspectorate Regiment	Port Esther	Activated for deployment to Port Esther, 13.X.1709 AN. Deployment date (T-Day) 1.I.1710 AN.

Equipment

Vessels

Name	Origin	Type	№ in Service	Image	Notes
Surface combatants
Manco Cápac-class	ESB Armada	Frigate	120		Order placed 1720 AN. 120 built, of which 60 received by BUDF and 40 commissioned as of 1731 AN.
Rose-class	Rothaven Boatyards  Vijayanagara Fleet Construction Yards	Corvette	192		3x ordered, 1723 AN. 16x ordered, 1730 AN. Full rate production between 1731 AN and 1740 AN.
Support vessels
Cartagena-class	Pontecorvo Firm	Expeditionary mobile base	1		Order placed 1730 AN
Compassion-class	Pontecorvo Firm	Hospital ship	1		Ex-Ransenari.
Ignatius-class	Pontecorvo Firm	Amphibious transport dock	10		Order placed 1730 AN To replace the Logistic Support Vessel.
Reaver-class	Various	Armed trawler	418		Obtained through the suppression of the Sea-Reavers, 1731 AN.
Thorn-class	Rothaven Boatyards	Training sloop	3		Order placed 1723 AN. Designated as training vessels, 1730 AN.
Submarines
Type XXIX	Zolt Shipyards	Diesel-electric U-boat	339		Ordered, 1730 AN Full rate production between 1731 AN and 1740 AN.
Type XXX	Zolt Shipyards	Diesel-electric U-boat	303		Ordered, 1730 AN Full rate production between 1731 AN and 1740 AN.
Decommissioned
Viviantia-class logistic support vessel	Amity Shipyards	Fleet Auxiliary	6		Retired by 1710 AN. Disarmed and employed as barracks ships in the Warring Islands Special Autonomous Region.
Florimell-class Troop Landing Ship	Rothaven Boatyards	Fleet Auxiliary	393		Transferred to Benacian Merchant Marine, XIII.1720 AN.
Coastal Patrol Boat	Amity Shipyards	Patrol	109		9x received from the Navy of Ransenar (1712 AN) Assigned to riverine duties. Out of service by 1740 AN.
Melusine II-class	Rothaven Boatyards	Fast attack craft	60		Out of service by 1740 AN.
Montran-class	Sanama	Destroyer	7		Out of service by 1746 AN.
Seafox-class	Sanama State Maritime Industries	Corvette	36		12x transferred from the Navy of Ransenar (1712 AN) Out of service by 1746 AN.
Logistic Support Vessel	Amity Shipyards	Fleet auxiliary	27		10x transferred from the Navy of Ransenar (1712 AN). Out of service by 1739 AN.
Type XXV U-Boat	Port Niyi Shipyards	Attack Submarine	16		4x transferred from the Navy of Ransenar (1712 AN). Out of service by 1740 AN.
Type XXVI U-Boat	Amity Shipyards	Nuclear-powered Cruise Missile Submarine	1		Out of service by 1740 AN.
Type XXVII U-Boat	Pontecorvo Firm	Fleet submarine	6		Out of service by 1745 AN.
Type XXVIII U-Boat	Amity Shipyards	Nuclear-powered Attack Submarine	1		Out of service by 1748 AN.
Behaurnais-class	Pontecorvo Firm	Amphibious assault ship	4		Out of service by 1748 AN.
Carrillo-class	Pontecorvo Firm	Amphibious command ship	2		Out of service by 1748 AN.
Rhodondra-class	Sanama State Maritime Industries	Amphibious assault ship	7		4x ordered by UDF, 1693 AN; 3x purchased from People's Navy, 1703 AN. Out of service by 1747 AN.
Trwyth-class	Captaincy of the Three Ports	Aircraft carrier (riverine)	1		Attached to Riverine Fleet of the Maritime Forces of the Benacian Union (River Elwynn).
Carnifex-class	Vijayanagara Fleet Construction Yards	Cruiser	1		Order placed 1723 AN. Out of service by 1750 AN.
Dredger-class	Vijayanagara Fleet Construction Yards	Gunboat	9		Order placed 1723 AN.
Protector-class	Sanama State Maritime Industries	Missile frigate	16		Out of service by 1749 AN.