Royal Navy

The Royal Navy of Workhold is the second branch of the Armed forces of Workhold. The Royal Navy however, was largely ignored from year 1 to 294. The Royal Navy became the integral part of Workhold after the Borian War during which King Jiri realized how many foreign invasions could be completely prevented with a powerful fleet safe guarding the shores of Edelmaa. Before 294 the Royal Navy was mockingly called the Royal Sealines, since it was mainly used to transport troops or to trade. The Royal Navy holds four men as the Founding Fathers of the RN, the men are: Sir Lothbrok Voorst, Lannes Hay, Hayao Heihachiro and Filiki Caradore.
==Historical Background==
The Royal Navy was formed in 1 After Keep at the onset of King Levi's participation in the War agains the Peasant King. The fleet consisted of two small cogs that helped Levi to transport handful of his troops quickly to seize the unguarded city of Dives, when the garrisoning army had left. After the establishment of the Kingdom of Workhold and the proper formation of the Royal Army, the Royal Navy was largely ignored. The two cogs remained in service as the only vessels until the Raid of Workhold around 70. Workhold became a province of Ronmag and the Army and Navy of Ronmag used many harbors as navalbases.
In 91, the Worvian Revolutionary War began and many Worvian loyalist seamen that were part of the Ronmag navy began a mutiny. Few proper vessels of war were captured and postwar were formally merged into the Royal Navy. These vessels were new to the Worvians, as their culture was not a sea faring one and they didn't know how to build good ships, especially ships of war. The vessels taken form the Ronmag became prized ships and replaced the old cogs. However, the Worvians didn't bother reverse engineering the Ronmag ships and building their own variants and lazily left the Royal Navy to survive with the few dozen captured Ronmag ships.
During the Edelmaa Great War these ships wouldn't see much action as the war was largely fought on land, with the few exceptions of naval combat. The Battle of Gudur bay saw the largest naval battle of the history of Edelmaa at that point were the Peasant revolt ships attacked ships of Jiri Baathúr. The fleet of Jiri Baathúr won and sank the entire Peasant fleet, but they lost all their ships in the process as well. When Jiri became the King of Workhold at the end of the war, he inherited the blasé attitude towards the navy and didn't bother to upgrade it.
The Royal Navy began to finally receive attention at the end of the Borian War, when the desire for massive militarization craze saw the usefulness of the Royal Navy. Sir Lothbrok Voorst requested the Royal Navy to construct a modern and capable navy. They hired a Yopeian shipwright Hayao Heihachiro to design them ships and an Olian naval strategist Filiki Caradore to guide them on naval warfare. From 294 to 305, the Royal Navy had become a respectable naval force capable to keep the seas safe.
==Fleets==
Fleets of the Royal Navy
Name 	Base 	Admiral 	Fealty 	Fate
Glory Fleet 	Leowell 	Fleet Admiral Lopelius Schweppenburg	Royal Navy 	Active
Parabellum Fleet 	Dives 	Fleet Admiral Dann Strickt 	Royal Navy 	Active
Yellow Flag Fleet	Silverion 	Admiral Ezekyle Leckerey 	Royal Navy 	Active
Black Fleet 	Baathúr island	Admiral Ornas Halegar 	Legio Galentum 	Active
Fire Fleet 	Tadaheim 	- 	Legio Ardostum 	Sunk in 308
Honour Fleet 	Estranas 	Admiral Jean-Paul Houtier 	Legio Centralis	Active
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