Transcript Royal Naval Air stations

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The idea for this slideshow is based on the
map on the left produced by the
Fly Navy Heritage Trust.
One hundred years of
Royal Naval Air Stations.
Maps used in our production are prior to
the 1974 boundary changes.
While every care has been taken in the
preparation of this slideshow,
accuracy cannot be guaranteed.
Royal Naval Air Stations Over The Past 100 Years
The Admiralty ordered its first airship on 7 May 1909 and it is from this single standing point that naval aviation progressed so
rapidly. The first four naval pilots learned to fly on the Isle of Sheppey in 1911, home of the first Royal Naval Air Station at
Eastchurch. Once their wings had been awarded, naval pilots put their new skills to use very quickly. The Fleet experienced its
first take offs and landings to mention just one aspect of aerial warfare and by the end of World War 1 in 1918 the Royal Naval Air
Service could boast 67,000 officers and men, 2949 aircraft, 103 airships and 126 coastal stations.
Many of these coastal or naval air stations along with those that came into being during World War 2 still exist today, a few still in
use by the Royal Navy. Others have become civil airports or have been taken over by the RAF and Army whilst some have, sadly,
fallen into disuse and either left to fall down or have become industrial estates, business parks, leisure facilities or supermarkets;
one has even become a reservoir. The Fly Navy Heritage Trust has identified and is keen to identify even more of these former
sites and to formally designate them as Naval Aviation Heritage Sites.
Gill Charles
2010
HMS Tern II, Skeabrae, Dounreay, Hatston
11944 – 1954. To Air Ministry 1954
HMSSparrowhawk, Hatston, Orkney
1939-1945,
Became Tern II
Orkneys
HMS Tern, Twatt, Orkney
1942-1946. Satellite to Sparrowhawk 1941
Airfields
Smoogroo, Scapa Flow
1915-1919
HMS Robin, Grimsetter
Kirkwall, Orkney
1943-1945,
Ex RAF - tender toSparrowhawk
- back to RAF
Caithness
Sutherland
HMS Owl
Fearn/Evanton, Ross-shire
1942-1946
Transferred from RAF
2
2
HMS Fulmar
Lossiemouth
1946-1972
Ex RAF and returned to RAF
HMS Fulmar II
Milltown
1946-1972
Ex RAF and returned to
RAF – satellite of Fulmar
1
Ross & Cromarty
HMS Merganser
Crimmond/Rattery
1944-1946
Known as Crimmond until
1945 then Rattery
Nairn Morayshire
2
2
Aberdeenshire
HMS Condor, Arbroath, Angus,
1940-1970,
Became RM Barracks
2
Inverness-shire
HMS Fieldfare
Evanton Ross-shire
1920-1946
RNAS lodger between the wars
3
HMS Peewit
East Haven
Angus
1943-1946
Was to have been named Dotterel
Angus
Perthshire
Leuchers Fife
1914-1918
Then to RAF - lodger
basis
1935-38 &
1972-79
3
HMS Sanderling
Abbotsinch 1943-1963
Lodger basis from 1939
-transferred from RAF - to
Min of Av
Fife
CLK
KRS
3
3
HMS Landrail II
Campbeltown
1941-1945
East Lothian
Mid Lothian
3
Berwickshire
Lanarkshire
3
HMS Landrail
Campbeltown
1940-1941
Civil airport requisitioned
by Air Ministry
Roxburhshire
Ayrshire
HMS Gannet
Prestwick, Ayr
1971-Lodger airfield 1940/41
DNB - Dunbartonshire
CLK - Clackmannanshire
KRS - Kinross-shire
WL - West Lothian
HMS Jackdaw II
Dunino, Fife
1942-1946
Ex RAF
HMS Merlin
Donibristle, Fife
1917-18,1939-59
Ex RAF between the wars
HMS Nighthawk
Drem/MacMerry, E Lothian
1945-1946
Tender to Merlin - on loan from
RAF and both returned
Dumfries
Kirkcudbrightshire
HMS Wagtail
Heathfield, Ayr
1944-1946
Transferred from RAF on loan
HMS Jackdaw
Crail, Fife
1940-1947
RNAS
Wigtown
Turnhouse, Midlothian
-1918
RNAS - RAF lodger 1942-1944
Steness, Scapa Flow
1915-1919
Catfirth
Zetland,
Shetlands
-1918 RNAS
Orkneys
Seaplane
Balloon
Airship
Airship Sub Stations
Caldale
Scapa Flow
1915-1919
Caithness
Houton Bay, Scapa Flow
1915-1919
Was also Kite Balloon Station
Sutherland
2
Strathbeg
Aberdeen
-1918
1
Ross & Cromarty
2
Morayshire
Longside
Aberdeen
1915-1918
Nairn
2
2
Aberdeenshire
Auldbar, Angus,
1917-1918,
To RAF
2
Inverness-shire
3
HMS Condor II
Dundee, Scotland
1941-1944
Angus
Perthshire
Hawkscraig, Fife
1912-1919
RNAS - Seaplane station
3
Fife
CLK
KRS
3
East Lothian
Mid Lothian
3
Berwickshire
Lanarkshire
3
Roxburhshire
Ayrshire
Dumfries
Luce Bay
Wigtownshire
1916-1918
RNAS
DNB - Dunbartonshire
CLK - Clackmannanshire
KRS - Kinross-shire
WL - West Lothian
North Queensferry
Forth
1917-1918
Balloon station
Wigtown
Kirkcudbrightshire
East Fortune
East Lothian
1916-1918
RNAS
Rosyth
Forth
1917-1918
Lerwick Shetlands
1915-1918
RNAS - To RAF
Additional
Information…
Scapa Bay
Scapa Flow
1915-1919
RNAS
***
HMS Icarus
Houton Bay
Scapa/Caldale
1917-1918
Central depot for air
services Orkney
Orkneys
HMS Siskin
Dounreay, Caithness
1944
Ex RAF transferred to
RN but little used
Caithness
Swarbacks Minn
Scapa Flow
1915-1919
RNAS
***
HMS Campania
Scapa Flow
1914-1918
Used as Scapa seaplane
base, sunk in 1918
Sutherland
Fort George
Cromarty
1912-1915
RNAS - Closed 1916
2
Rattray, Aberdeen
WW1
RNAS
***
HMS Rattray
Crimond
1945-1946
Ex Merganser
Banff, Morayshire
Lent to RNAS for bombing 1947
- presumably Lossiemouth
1
Ross & Cromarty
2
Morayshire
Nairn
2
Lossiemouth Morayshire
WW1
RNAS - Combined station
2
Aberdeenshire
HMS Dotterel
East Haven, Angus
1943
Original name selected
but opened as Peewit
***
Stannergate
Dundee,
1914-1918
RN seaplane site
2
Inverness-shire
3
HMS Sanderling II
Macrihanish
1946
Landrail paid off and
re commissioned as
tender to Sanderling
***
HMS Landrail
Strabane/Machrihanish
1941 -1963
Strabane replaced by
Machrihanish Transferred to Air Min
***
Macrihannish
Argyll
1915-1918
RNAS
***
HMS Waterrail
Campbeltown
RNAS Campbeltown was
Landrail?
Angus
Perthshire
3
Fife
CLK
HMS Bruce
Crail, Fife
1947-1949
Ex Jackdaw - listed as
reserve air station until at
least 1960
***
Leven, Fife
1913
Naval airfield and camp
***
HMS Merlin III Dunino,
Fife
1945
Ex HMS Jackdaw II
KRS
3
East Lothian
Mid Lothian
3
Berwickshire
Lanarkshire
3
Roxburhshire
Ayrshire
Dumfries
Kirkcudbrightshire
DNB - Dunbartonshire
CLK - Clackmannanshire
KRS - Kinross-shire
WL - West Lothian
Inchinnan
Renfrewshire
WW1
RNAS
Wigtown
Roxburgh, Kelso,
Roxburgshire
WW2
Transferred to Air
Ministry 1942
New Haggerston,
Northumberland
WW1, RNAS
Seahouses
Northumberland
WW1, RNAS
Airfields Part 1
From Northumberland
across to Lancashire,
to Berkshire in the south.
HMS Nuthatch
Anthorn, Cumberland
1944-1960,
RN lodger unit 1940 - NATO radio
station from 1964
HMS Godwit
Ollerton/Hinstock, Salop
1942-1947
Known as Ollerton until 1943
then as Hinstock
Seaton Carew ,Co Durham
WW1, RNAS
Redcar, Co Durham
1916-1918
RNAS
West Ayton, Yorkshire
WW1, RNAS
1
Atwick, Yorkshire
1914-1918
RNAS
Yorkshire
HMS Nightjar,
Inskip, Lancs,
1943-1946
Originally called RNAS Elswick
- later became radio station
1
Lancashire
Greenland Top
Lincs
1914-1918
RNAS
HMS Blackcap
Stretton, Lancs
1942-1958
Facilities no longer required by
RAF, transferred to RN
Staffordshire
RUT
Bacton, Norfolk
1916-1918
Night landing ground
Norfolk
Shropshire
HMS Godwit II
Peplow/Weston Park, Salop
1945-1949
Ex RAF - satellite landing
ground at Weston Park
HUN
Suffolk
HMS Gamecock
Bramcote, Nuneaton
1943-1959
Ex RAF - transferred to Army
(Royal Artillery)
Covehithe, Suffolk
1916-1918
RNAS
BDF
Pulham, Norfolk
1916-1918
RNAS - Airship station
MDX
London
Wiltshire
HMS Flycatcher
Ludham, Norfolk
1944-1945
Returned to RAF in 1945,
exchanged for Middle Wallop
Essex
Berkshire
HMS Hornbill
Culham, Berkshire
1944 – 1953
Owthorne , Yorks,
1917, RNAS
North Coates, Lincolnshire
1915-1918
RAF lodger 1940-41
Holt , Norfolk
1916-1918
RNAS - Night landing ground
Lincolnshire
Cheshire
Buckinghamshire
HMS Ringtail II,
Woodvale, Formby
1945-1946
Ex RAF on indefinite loan
Tynemouth
Northumberland
1918, RNAS
Durham
Cumberland
HMS Urley
Ronaldsway,
IOM
1944-1946
Ex civil airport
HMS Ringtail
Burscough, Ormskirk
1943-1946
RNAS
Ashington
Northumberland
WW1, RNAS
Northumberland
Surrey
Kent
Hampshire
HMS Sparrowhawk
Halesworth, Suffolk
1945-1946
Transferred from RAF
and returned to them
Somerset
Sussex
Bush Barn
Berkshire
1944-1945
Out station airfield
for Kestrel
RUT – Rutland
HUN – Huntingdonshire
BDF – Bedfordshire
MDX - Middlesex
Devonshire
Aldeburgh ,Suffolk
RNAS
1916-1918
Dorset
IOW
Chingford
Essex
1913-1918
RNAS - Now a reservoir
Butley, Suffolk
WW1
RNAS
Became RAF Bentwaters then to USAF
RUT – Rutland
HUN – Huntingdonshire
BDF – Bedfordshire
MDX - Middlesex
Airfields Part 2
From the South East across
to the South West
Northumberland
Durham
Cumberland
1
Yorkshire
HMS Dipper
Henstridge, Somerset
1941-1946
Early 1950's re-opened
as satellite to Heron
HMS Humming Bird
Zeals, Wiltshire
1945-1946
Ex RAF
HMS Heron II
Charlton Horthorne
1942-1945
To RAF in exchange for Zeals
HMS Heron,
Yeovilton Somerset
1940RAF Merrifield used
as satellite
1
Lancashire
Lincolnshire
Cheshire
Staffordshire
Norfolk
RUT
Walmer Kent
-1918
RNAS
Dover Kent
1916-1919
Also RNAS Guston
HUN
Suffolk
Westward Ho,
Devon
WW1
RNAS
RNAS Trevose Head
Padstow, Cornwall
1917-1918
Eastchurch, Sheppey
1913-1918
RNAS
Shropshire
Buckinghamshire
Merryfield, Somerset
1958-60,1972RNAS out field for
Heron
- also RAF Merryfield
HMS Flycatcher
Middle Wallop,
Hants 1945-1946
HQ MONAB
Org.- returned to RAF
HMS Vulture II
Treligga, Cornwall
1916-1918
RNAS
HMS Buzzard
Lympne, Kent
1939
Ex 22 Gp RAF - handed
back to RAF May 1940
BDF
Essex
MDX
Cowdray Park, Sussex
1941
Out station airfield
for Daedalus
London
Berkshire
Somerset
Kent
Surrey
Wiltshire
Telscombe Cliffs,
Sussex
WW1
Hampshire
HMS Vulture,
St Merryn, Cornwall
1940-1953
Renamed Curlew
in 1953
HMS Seahawk
Culdrose, Cornwall
1947Was to have been
named Chough
Sussex
Devonshire
Dorset
IOW
HMS Heron II
Haldon, Devon
1941-1946
Ex RAF
Predannock, Cornwall
1958Satellite to RNAS Culdrose
Prawle Point
Devon
1917-1918
RNAS
Bembridge
Chickerell ,Dorset Isle of Wight
WW1
WW1
RNAS and between
RNAS
the wars
HMS Peregrine Ford, Sussex
1939-1958
Ex RAF - returned 1940 with RN
as lodger - back to RN 1945
HMS Siskin
Gosport, Hants
HMS Raven
1945-1956
Eastleigh, Southampton
Was to have been
1939-1947
named
Woodpecker,
Included lodger facilities at
lent by RAF originally
RAF Christchurch
HMS Kestrel
Worthy Down , Hampshire
1939-1952
Ex RAF - included airfields at
Bush Barn, Haslemere, Jersey
RUT – Rutland
HUN – Huntingdonshire
BDF – Bedfordshire
MDX - Middlesex
Chathill
Northumberland
WW1
RNAS
Seaplane
Balloon
Airship
Combined
Airship Sub Stations
Northumberland
Ramsay
Isle of Man
WW1
Seaton Carew
Co Durham
WW1
Durham
Cumberland
Kirkleathan
Yorks
WW1
RNAS
Lowthorpe
Yorks
WW1
RNAS
1
Yorkshire
HMS Daedalus
Lee-on-Solent,
Hants
1917-18,1939-96
39 back from RAF
- renamed Daedalus 1965 ex Ariel
Tipner , Portsmouth
-1918
Balloon station
-Closed 1919 and not
-required by Air Ministry
1
Lancashire
Hickling Broad
Norfolk
1916-1918
Norfolk
RUT
HUN
Buckinghamshire
Bude Cornwall
1915-1918
To RAF 1918-1919
- out station to Mullion
Cattewater Laira,
Plymouth
1918
Laira, Devon
WW1
Sub station for
Mullion
Shotley
Suffolk
1912-1919
BDF
Essex
MDX
Berkshire
Surrey
Mullion Cornwall
1915-1918
To RAF - First
known as
Lizard Airship
Kingsnorth,Kent
1912-1918 RNAS
Kent
Hampshire
Somerset
Sussex
Devonshire
Dorset
IOW
RNAS Lands End
Newlyn, Cornwall
1917-1918
To RAF
Tresco, Nr New Grimsby,
Scilly Is
1917-1918
Transferred to RAF
Isle of Grain,
Medway
1911-1918
Bridport, Dorset
1917-1918
St Mary's Scilly Is
1917-1918 RNAS
Felixstowe Harwich
Suffolk
1912-1918 Seaplane station
- Became radio station in 1920
London
Wiltshire
HMS Osprey (Sarepta)
Portland, Dorset
1916-1918
To RAF as seaplane base
- closed 1919
Slindon,
Sussex
WW1
Upton,
Dorset
WW1
HMS Daedalus II
Sandbanks, Dorset
1940-1943
Bembridge Harbour
Isle of Wight
1916-1918
Cranwell
Lincs
1915-1918
Transferred to RAF
South Denes
Great Yarmouth, Norfolk
1911-1918
Lowestoft
Suffolk
WW1
Shropshire
Suffolk
Merifield, Cornwall
1919
At Wilcove with detachment
at Torquay
Immingham Lincolnshire
1916-1918
Lincolnshire
Staffordshire
Torquay
Devon
1918
Howden
Yorks
1915-1918
RNAS - Airship station
Killingholme Haven , Lincs
1914-1918
To USN 1918 - vacated by USN 1919
- RAF station WW2
Cheshire
Calshot, Hants
1913-1918
To RAF between
the wars
Hornsea Mere
Yorks
1915-1919,
to close 1919 and
transferred
to Killingholme
Newhaven
Sussex
1917-1919
RNAS
Richmond Park
Surrey
WW1
Sheerness
Medway
1912-1919
Not required by Air Ministry
Westgate,
Kent
Dover/Marine, Kent
1916
WW1
Godmersham Park
Kent
WW1
West Mersham
Kent
WW1
Capel
Nr. Folkestone,
Kent
1915-1920
RNAS
Polegate,Sussex
1916-1918 Transferred from Dover
to Portsmouth Command 1917
Additional Information…
Ramsay
Isle of Man
WW1
Airship sub station
HMS Ariel II (Culcheth)
Warrington, Lancs J
ul-Dec1952
RNAS
***
Barrow in Furness
Lancs
1916-1918
RNAS
***
HMS Humming Bird,
Zeals, Wiltshire
WW1
RNAS
***
Stonehenge Wiltshire
1918
RNAS
Mount Batten,
Plymouth 1917-1918
To RAF - Used by RN
between wars
***
Teignmouth Devon
1940
RNAS
***
RNAS Tregantle Ft
Plymouth
1917
RNAS
***
Tregantle & Withnoe
Plymouth
918
RNAS
Barlow Nr Selby,
Yorkshire
1916-1920 Airship
construction station
RNAS
***
Scarborough
Yorkshire
1915-1916
RNAS
Cramlington
Northumberland
WW1 RNAS not
completed
***
Whitley Bay
Northumberland
1916
RNAS
Northumberland
Sedgeford Norfolk
1915-1917
Night landing ground
-To RFC 1917
***
Narborough Norfolk
1912 -1916
To War Office - later
became RAF Marham
-***
Burgh Castle Norfolk
-1918 Night landing
ground - RNAS
Durham
Cumberland
HMS Hornbill II
Beccles/Halesworth, Suffolk
1945-1953
Ex RAF - lodger facilities
1
Fairlop, Essex
1913-1918
Sub station to Chingford
- Now a Leisure Centre
Yorkshire
Cardington,
Cambs
WW1
RNAS
1
Lancashire
***
Chelmsford, Essex
1915-1918
RNAS
Lincolnshire
Cheshire
HMS Heron II Henstridge
Marsh Som.
1941-1957
Commissioned as HMS
Dipper - tender to Heron
Staffordshire
Norfolk
RUT
Shropshire
Eastcote,
Ruislip
WW1
RNAS
HUN
Suffolk
Fort Grange Gosport,
Hants
1914-1918
RNAS - Became No 1
Naval Air Squadron
***
HMS Ariel Worthy Down
, Hampshire
Jul 1952-1959
Transferred from
Warrington
***
HMS Daedalus III
Lee/Bedhampton, Hants
1943-1947
Also release centre known as Bedhampton
Camp
***
Arnold House
Farnborough, Hants
1912-1918
RNAS
RUT – Rutland
HUN – Huntingdonshire
BDF – Bedfordshire
MDX - Middlesex
HMS Woodpecker
Gosport, Hants
1945
Name proposed for
RNAS Gosport but
Siskin used instead
***
HMS Ariel
Lee-on-Solent,
Hants 1959-1965
Daedalus renamed
Ariel when ground
training moved there
***
Lee-on-Solent
Portsmouth
-1918
RNAS
***
Gosport Portsmouth
-1918
RNAS
BDF
Stratford London
1917-1918
To be Admiralty
Establishment
***
HMS Victory VI
Crystal Palace, London
1918
RNAS
***
Roehampton London
1918
RNAS
***
Wormwood Scrubs
London 1915-1917
RNAS
Essex
MDX
London
Berkshire
Wiltshire
Kent
Surrey
Hampshire
Somerset
Sussex
Devonshire
Dorset
IOW
Lands End
Nr St Just,
Cornwall
1940
Temporary RNAS
HMS Curlew St Merryn,
Cornwall
1953-1956
Transferred to Air
Ministry
Moreton, Dorset
WW1
RNAS - Not completed
HMS Chough Culdrose,
Cornwall 1944-1947
Name whilst under
construction, changed on
completion
Lympne Kent
1914-1918
RNAS
***
HMS Daedalus II
Lympne, Kent
1939-1940
EX RAF and
transferred back to
them
***
Rochford, Kent
WW1
Transferred to War
Office 1916
***
Detling Maidstone,
Kent 1916-1918 to
Military 1917
-RAF lodger 19401941 - RNAS
HMS Pembroke II
Eastchurch,
Sheppey 1913-1918
Transferred to RAF
***
Folkestone Kent
1915-1918
RNAS - Also naval
base during WW1 closed 1919
***
HMS Bluebird III
Folkestone, Kent
1942-1944
Ex Air Sea Rescue
Folkestone
***
Wittersham, Kent
WW1
RNAS
***
Ramsgate, Kent
1914-1918
RNAS
Airfields
Seaplane
Balloon
Airship
Conway
Anglesey
1916
RNAS
Additional
Information…
Bangor
Caernarvonshire
WW1
RNAS
Fishguard ,Pembs
1917-1918
RNAS
HMS Goldcrest
Brawdy,
Pembrokeshire
1952-1971
Ex Goldcrest II
- transferred to RAF
HMS Goldcrest
Angle, Pembs
1943
Ex RAF and transferred back
to RAF
***
HMS Goldcrest II
Brawdy, Pembs
1946-1952
Ex RAF - Satellite to
Goldcrest (Dale)
Radnorshire
Brecknok
Carmarthenshire
HMS St David
Pembs
1947-1961
Relief airfield
for Brawdy
Glamorgan
Pembroke Dock
Pembrokeshire
WW1
HMS Goldcrest
Dale, Pembrokeshire
1943-1948
From Angle to Ex RAF Station
- became Harrier in 1948
Milford Haven
Pembrokeshire
1916
HMS Daedalus II
Lawrenny Ferry,
Pembsrokeshire
1942-1943
Ex RAF and detached
from Pembroke dock
HMS Gannet II
Maydown,
Londonderry1945-1953
Ex HMS Shrike
***
HMS Sea Eagle
Eglinton,
Co Londonderry
1959-1970
Ex Gannet
***
HMS Sealion
Ballykelly , Londonderry
RNAS Ballykelly
(Sea Eagle?)
Ballyliffan
Co. Donegal
WW1
RNAS
HMS Shrike
Maydown, Co .Down
1943-1945
Ex RAF - became Gannet II
Rathmullan
Co. Donegal
-1918
Antrim
Londonderry
Donegal
Lough Foyle
Co. Donegal
1915-1919 RNAS
Larne
Co. Antrim
1916-1918
RNAS
Tyrone
HMS Gannet II
Sydenham, Co. Antrim
1946-1973
Ex HMS Gadwall - to RAF
Lough
Neough
HMS Gannet
Eglinton, Co. Londonderry
1943-1959
Lent by RAF, transferred to RN 1947,
reopened as Sea Eagle
HMS Corncrake
Ballyhalbert, Co. Down
1945
Transferred to RAF in 1946 with
RN lodger facilities
Down
Fermanagh
Armagh
Sligo
Leitrim
Lough Neough
N Ireland
WW1
RNAS Not completed
HMS Corncrake II
Kirkistown, Co. Down
1945-1946
On loan from RAF
Cavan
Mayo
Louth
HMS Gadwall
Sydenham,
1943-1946
Ex RAF Became
Gannet III
Roscommon
Longford
Meath
Westmeath
HMS Mermaid
Dublin
1916-1919
Closed 1919
Malahide
Co. Dublin
WW1
RNAS
Galway
Dublin
Offaly
HMS Pintail
Nutts Corner, Crumlin
1945-1946
From RAF - to RAF transport
command
Kildare
Wexford
Ireland
WW1
Used by USN
Laois
Wicklow
Clare
HMS Mermaid
Co. Dublin
1916-1919
Closed 1919
Carlow
Queenstown
Co. Cork
WW1
Used by USN not returned 1919
closed 1921
***
Whiddy Island
Co. Cork
WW1
Used by USN
Tipperary
Limerick
Kilkenny
Wexford
Airfields
Balloon
Airship Sub Stations
Waterford
Kerry
Cork
Under the Government of Ireland Act 1920, "Home Rule"
institutions were created in two divisions of Ireland, 26
counties forming Southern Ireland and six counties
forming Northern Ireland. This partition was copper
fastened by the 1922 Anglo-Irish Treaty, under which
Ireland left the United Kingdom, Northern Ireland
rejoining two days later. Southern Ireland, which had
never functioned as a separate entity, became the Irish
Free State, now the Republic of Ireland.
Killeagh
Co. Cork
WW1
RNAS
Additional
Information…
Royal Naval Air Stations throughout the rest of the world.
Researched and compiled by Gill Charles.
Mobile Naval Operating Air Bases, MONABs, were a series of mobile, self-contained units able to repair, and prepare for service, aircraft, engines, and components as required for ships of the British Pacific Fleet.
Each were initially assembled at the MONAB HQ at HMS Flycatcher (Ludham then Middle Wallop). In total 10 MONABS were established and one Transportable Aircraft Maintenance Yard (TAMY)
HMS Seaborn Dartmouth,
Nova Scotia
1939-1946
Pre-war RCAF station - transferred to RCN
--HMS Saker Dartmouth,
Nova Scotia
1941-1942
Ex Seaborn
HMS Force Profit
Iceland 1940
Comprised aircraft
at Iceland - on
books Daedalus
Murmansk Russia
1914-1917
Transferred to
Royal Marines 1917
Dunkirk
France
1916-1918
Closed 1919 - RNAS
Boulogne
France
1915-1919
RNAS
Marquise
France
1915-1919
RNAS
Cherbourg,
France
1917-1918
RNAS
RNAS Saker
Brunswick Maine
1943-1945
RN/USN
Vendome
La Rochelle
1918
RNAS
HMS Moga Jamaica
1943-1944
RNAS
Hyeres Toulon
France
1940 - RNAS
HMS Buzzard
Kingston, Jamaica
1940-1945
Naval Base became
HMS Morgan, RNAS
remained Buzzard
HMS Goshawk
Piarco, Trinidad
1940-1946
Originally known as
Malabar II
St Pol,
France
1917
RNAS
HMS Queen II
Taranto, S. Italy
1917-1918
Parent Ship
RNAS Southern Italy at
Pizzone
HMS Cormorant II Gibraltar
1940-1944
RAF North Front, transferred to RN
then back to RAF
Gibraltar 1915-1918
Seaplane base - To RAF Kite Balloon
station evacuated 1919
RNAS Tafar Oui Oran
1943
Under Cormorant II
HMS Spurwing, Hastings,
Sierra Leone
1943-1944
Transferred from RAF
RNAS ‘The Rest of the World’
PART 1
HMS Wara ,
Komenda Takoraal,
G. Coast
1942-1943 RNAS
RNAS Calafrana, Malta
1916-1919
To RAF - Seaplane base
--HMS Falcon Hal Far, Malta
1946-1965
Ex RAF- Shore base for a/c of Med
Fleet 1923-RN use WW2
--HMS Goldfinch Takali, Malta
1943-1953
Civil airport pre WW2
--RNAS Kalafrana, Malta
1946-1965
To Air Ministry
HMS Eleusis
Maleme, Crete WW2 RNAS
--RNAS Imbros Aegean
1917-1919
Abandoned and then
closed in 1919
HMS Grebe, Dekheila,
Alexandria
1940-1946
Returned to Egytian control
in 1946
Langata
Nairobi, Kenya
WW2 RNAS
HMS Kipanga II
Voi, Pt. Reitz,
Mackinnon Rd 1942
-1944/45
RNAS
RNAS ‘The Rest of the World’
PART 2
HMS Rapax,
Hiswa, Aden
1944-1945
RNAS at RAF Station
HMS Kipanga
Killindini, Kenya
1942-1944
Depot for RN air
personnel ashore in East
Africa
HMS Vairi,
Sular, Coinbatore, India
1944-1946
Transferred from RAF
HMS Rajaliya
Puttalam, Ceylon
1943-1945
Transferred to local
civil authority
HMS Bambara
Trincomalee, Ceylon
1944-1947
Transferred to RAF 1951
- known as RNAS Trinco
HMS Flycatcher
Kai Tak, Hong Kong
1947
Ex Nabcatcher
(MONAB VIII)
--HMS Nabcatcher
Middle Wallop/Kai Tak,
Hong Kong
1945-1947
MONAB VIII
HMS Maraga
Addu Atoll
1944-1946
RNAS
HMS Nabaron
Ludham/Manus, Adm Is
1944-1945
HMS Kilele,
Tanga, Tanganyika
1942-1945
RNAS
HMS London Zanzibar
-1918
Closed 1919 - given in
exchange for Heligoland
in 1890
HMS Malagas
Wingfield/Wynberg, SA
1942-1946
Ex Union Government
airfield which was
developed
HMS Sheathbill
Pt San Carlos,
Falkland Is 1982
Unofficial name for
Forward Operating Base
Morib
Malaya
WW2
RNAS
RNAS Kantali Ceylon
1944-1950
Returned to RAF
MONAB IV
HMS Bherunda
Colombo, Ceylon
1943-1945
Was Colombo racecourse,
RAF Station taken over by RN
HMS Nabreekie
Middle Wallop/Meeandah
1945
MONAB VI
MONAB VII
HMS Ukussa
Katakurunda, Ceylon
1942-1946
RNAS
HMS Rajawali
Morib, Malaya
1941-1942
--Sembawang Malaya
1940-1971
RNAS
--RNAS Selangor
Malaya
WW2
HMS Nabstock
Middle Wallop/Marybrough
1945-1946
HMS Nabberley
Ludham/Bankstown,
Sydney 1944-1946
HMS Nasar
Sembawang, Singapore. 1941-1942, RNAS
--HMS Simbang Sembawang, Singapore 1945-1971
Administration transferred to ANZAV Force 1971
--HMS Nasar
Sembawang, Singapore. 1941-1942, RNAS
MONAB II
--HMS Nabthorpe
Ludham/Schofields, NSW
1944-1945
HMS Nabswick
Ludham/Jervis Bay/Nowra
1944-1946
HMS Albatross
Nowra, New South Wales
1944-1946
Used by Nabbington &
Nabswick then to RAAF &
RAAN
--HMS Nabbington
Ludham/Nowra, NSW
1944-1945
MONAB V
MONAB I
MONAB III
Acknowledgements
‘Shore Establishments of the Royal Navy’ by Lieutenant Commander Ben Warlow R.N.
Fly Navy Heritage Trust.
Research and Map of the World - GWC
Compiled on behalf of Cloud Observers by MIS
2010