Quella di Commander-in-Chief, East Indies (Comandante in Capo, Indie Orientali) era una posizione affidata ad un ammiraglio della Royal Navy britannica e alla flotta a lui subordinata, tra il 1865 ed il 1941William Loney RN.. Anche se non tecnicamente corretto, il termine East Indies Station era utilizzato di frequente anche nei documenti ufficiali.

Tra il 1831 ed il 1865 i comandi delle Indie Orientali e della Cina erano riuniti in una sola formazione nota come Easti Indies and China Station. Dopo il 1865, la East Indies Station aveva come zona di operazioni l'oceano Indiano con l'esclusione delle acque attorno alle Indie Orientali Olandesi, al Sudafrica e all'Australia, includendo invece il golfo Persico ed il mar Rosso. L'esistenza di questa flotta non implicava specifiche rivendicazioni territoriali, ma solamente la protezione degli interessi commerciali dell'impero britannico.

La East Indies Station aveva basi a Colombo, Trincomalee, Bombay, Bassora e Aden. Dopo lo scoppio della seconda guerra mondiale e in seguito all'accresciuta minaccia giapponese, venne unita alla China Station nel dicembre 1941 andando a formare la Eastern Fleet.

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Commander-in-Chief, East Indies and China Station 1831–1865, vedi East Indies and China Station

Commander-in-Chief, East Indies & Cape of Good Hope Station Commodoro Frederick Montresor (1865) Commodoro Charles Hillyar (1865–1867)

Commander-in-Chief, East Indies StationWhitaker's Almanacks 1900–1941. Rear Admiral Leopold Heath (1867–1870) Rear Admiral James Cockburn (1870–1872) Rear Admiral Arthur Cumming (1872–1875) Rear Admiral Reginald Macdonald (1875–1877) Rear Admiral John Corbett (1877–1879) Rear Admiral William Gore Jones (1879–1882) Rear Admiral William Hewett (1882–1885) Rear Admiral Frederick Richards (1885–1888) Rear Admiral Edmund Fremantle (1888–1891) Rear Admiral Frederick Robinson (1891–1892) Rear Admiral William Kennedy (1892–1895) Rear Admiral Edmund Drummond (1895–1898) Rear Admiral Archibald Douglas (1898–1899) Rear Admiral Day Bosanquet (1899–1902) Rear Admiral Charles Drury (1902–1903) Rear Admiral George Atkinson-Willes (1903–1905) Rear Admiral Edmund Poë (1905–1907) Rear Admiral Sir George Warrender (1907–1909) Rear Admiral Edmond Slade (1909–1912) Rear Admiral Alexander Bethell (1912) Rear Admiral Richard Peirse (1913–1915) Rear Admiral Rosslyn Wemyss (1916–1917) Rear Admiral Ernest Gaunt (1917–1919) Rear Admiral Hugh Tothill (1919–1921) Rear Admiral Lewis Clinton-Baker (1921–1923) Rear Admiral Herbert Richmond (1923–1925) Rear Admiral Walter Ellerton (1925–1927) Rear Admiral Bertram Thesiger (1927–1929) Rear Admiral Eric Fullerton (1929–1932) Rear Admiral Martin Dunbar-Nasmith (1932–1934) Vice Admiral Forrester Rose (1934–1936) Vice Admiral Alexander Ramsay (1936–1938) Vice Admiral James Somerville (1938–1939) Admiral Sir Ralph Leatham (1939–1941) Vice Admiral Geoffrey Arbuthnot (1941–42)East Indies Squadron, Eastern Fleet, 8.12.41 .

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