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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

SCOTLAND HMS Tern II, Skeabrae, Dounreay, Hatston 11944 – 1954. To Air Ministry 1954 HMSSparrowhawk, Hatston, Orkney 1939 -1945, Became Tern II Orkneys Airfields HMS Tern, Twatt, Orkney 1942 -1946. Satellite to Sparrowhawk 1941 Smoogroo, Scapa Flow 1915 -1919 HMS Robin, Grimsetter Kirkwall, Orkney 1943 -1945, Ex RAF - tender to. Sparrowhawk - back to RAF Caithness 1 Sutherland HMS Owl Fearn/Evanton, Ross-shire 1942 -1946 Transferred from RAF 2 2 Nairn Morayshire hi fs nf HMS Merganser Crimmond/Rattery 1944 -1946 Known as Crimmond until 1945 then Rattery re Ba 2 Aberdeenshire 2 Inverness-shire HMS Fieldfare Evanton Ross-shire 1920 -1946 RNAS lodger between the wars c Kin 3 s ine ard e hir Angus Perthshire e hir Fife KRS CLK 3 Stirlin gshire DN. B L Re nfr 3 East Lothian W Mid Lothian ew s hir e 3 Berwickshire Lanarkshire Pe e 3 s lls ble 3 gy Ar HMS Landrail Campbeltown 1940 -1941 Civil airport requisitioned by Air Ministry rk lki Se Ayrshire HMS Gannet Prestwick, Ayr 1971 -Lodger airfield 1940/41 HMS Peewit East Haven Angus 1943 -1946 Was to have been named Dotterel Roxburhshire HMS Jackdaw Crail, Fife 1940 -1947 RNAS 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/Mac. Merry, 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 Condor, Arbroath, Angus, 1940 -1970, Became RM Barracks 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 DNB - Dunbartonshire CLK - Clackmannanshire KRS - Kinross-shire WL - West Lothian HMS Fulmar II Milltown 1946 -1972 Ex RAF and returned to RAF – satellite of Fulmar 1 Ross & Cromarty 2 HMS Landrail II Campbeltown 1941 -1945 HMS Fulmar Lossiemouth 1946 -1972 Ex RAF and returned to RAF Wigtown Turnhouse, Midlothian -1918 RNAS - RAF lodger 1942 -1944

SCOTLAND Steness, Scapa Flow 1915 -1919 Catfirth Zetland, Shetlands -1918 RNAS Orkneys Seaplane Balloon Airship Sub Stations Caldale Scapa Flow 1915 -1919 ty Caithness 1 ro m ar Houton Bay, Scapa Flow 1915 -1919 Was also Kite Balloon Station R os s & C Sutherland 2 Strathbeg Aberdeen -1918 1 Ross & Cromarty 2 Morayshire Nairn Longside Aberdeen 1915 -1918 ire 2 h ffs n Ba 2 Aberdeenshire 2 Inverness-shire c Kin 3 s ine ard e hir Angus Auldbar, Angus, 1917 -1918, To RAF HMS Condor II Dundee, Scotland 1941 -1944 Perthshire Hawkscraig, Fife 1912 -1919 RNAS - Seaplane station 3 e hir lls Fife KRS CLK Stirlin gshire DN B L Re nfr 3 W hir e 3 East Lothian Mid Lothian ew s eb Pe 3 Ayrshire Dumfries DNB - Dunbartonshire CLK - Clackmannanshire KRS - Kinross-shire WL - West Lothian rk lki Se Luce Bay Wigtownshire 1916 -1918 RNAS Wigtown North Queensferry Forth 1917 -1918 Balloon station Berwickshire Lanarkshire les 3 gy Ar Kirkcudbrightshire Roxburhshire East Fortune East Lothian 1916 -1918 RNAS Rosyth Forth 1917 -1918

Scapa Bay Scapa Flow 1915 -1919 RNAS *** HMS Icarus Houton Bay Scapa/Caldale 1917 -1918 Central depot for air services Orkney Lerwick Shetlands 1915 -1918 RNAS - To RAF Additional Information… Orkneys HMS Siskin Dounreay, Caithness 1944 Ex RAF transferred to RN but little used 1 ro m ar ty Caithness os s & C Sutherland R Fort George Cromarty 1912 -1915 RNAS - Closed 1916 2 Rattray, Aberdeen WW 1 RNAS *** HMS Rattray Crimond 1945 -1946 Ex Merganser Banff, Morayshire Lent to RNAS for bombing 1947 - presumably Lossiemouth 1 Ross & Cromarty 2 Morayshire Nairn ffs 2 Lossiemouth Morayshire WW 1 RNAS - Combined station n Ba 2 re hi Aberdeenshire 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? ire sh ine rd ca Kin Angus Perthshire HMS Dotterel East Haven, Angus 1943 Original name selected but opened as Peewit *** Stannergate Dundee, 1914 -1918 RN seaplane site 3 e hir lls Fife KRS CLK Stirlin gshire DN B L Re nfr 3 W hir e 3 East Lothian Mid Lothian ew s Berwickshire eb Lanarkshire les 3 gy Ar Pe 3 rk lki Se Ayrshire Roxburhshire 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 Dumfries Kirkcudbrightshire DNB - Dunbartonshire CLK - Clackmannanshire KRS - Kinross-shire WL - West Lothian Swarbacks Minn Scapa Flow 1915 -1919 RNAS *** HMS Campania Scapa Flow 1914 -1918 Used as Scapa seaplane base, sunk in 1918 Inchinnan Renfrewshire WW 1 RNAS Wigtown Roxburgh, Kelso, Roxburgshire WW 2 Transferred to Air Ministry 1942

ENGLAND New Haggerston, Northumberland WW 1, RNAS Seahouses Northumberland WW 1, RNAS Airfields Part 1 From Northumberland across to Lancashire, to Berkshire in the south. Ashington Northumberland WW 1, RNAS Northumberland HMS Nuthatch Anthorn, Cumberland 1944 -1960, RN lodger unit 1940 - NATO radio station from 1964 Durham Cumberland Seaton Carew , Co Durham WW 1, RNAS d Redcar, Co Durham 1916 -1918 RNAS HMS Nightjar, Inskip, Lancs, 1943 -1946 Originally called RNAS Elswick - later became radio station We Atwick, Yorkshire 1914 -1918 RNAS 1 Lancashire ste rs Staffordshire e hir ns Covehithe, Suffolk 1916 -1918 RNAS rd sh ire BDF tfo fo rd sh ire Suffolk Pulham, Norfolk 1916 -1918 RNAS - Airship station MDX London Berkshire HMS Hornbill Culham, Berkshire 1944 – 1953 Wiltshire HMS Flycatcher Ludham, Norfolk 1944 -1945 Returned to RAF in 1945, exchanged for Middle Wallop Essex He r No rth am pto HUN Bacton, Norfolk 1916 -1918 Night landing ground Norfolk Cambridgeshire Le ice Warwicks tershir Ox ire sh ter s ce ou Gl Buckinghamshire HMS Gamecock Bramcote, Nuneaton 1943 -1959 Ex RAF - transferred to Army (Royal Artillery) Worc es hire e hire Shropshire HMS Godwit II Peplow/Weston Park, Salop 1945 -1949 Ex RAF - satellite landing ground at Weston Park RUT Owthorne , Yorks, 1917, RNAS North Coates, Lincolnshire 1915 -1918 RAF lodger 1940 -41 Holt , Norfolk 1916 -1918 RNAS - Night landing ground Lincolnshire hir e Derb HMS Blackcap Stretton, Lancs 1942 -1958 Facilities no longer required by RAF, transferred to RN gham shire Greenland Top Lincs 1914 -1918 RNAS Nottin yshir e Cheshire fords HMS Godwit Ollerton/Hinstock, Salop 1942 -1947 Known as Ollerton until 1943 then as Hinstock West Ayton, Yorkshire WW 1, RNAS Yorkshire Here HMS Ringtail II, Woodvale, Formby 1945 -1946 Ex RAF on indefinite loan stm ore lan HMS Ringtail Burscough, Ormskirk 1943 -1946 RNAS 1 IOM HMS Urley Ronaldsway, IOM 1944 -1946 Ex civil airport Tynemouth Northumberland 1918, RNAS 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 ll Co wa rn Chingford Essex 1913 -1918 RNAS - Now a reservoir Butley, Suffolk WW 1 RNAS Became RAF Bentwaters then to USAF

ENGLAND RUT – Rutland HUN – Huntingdonshire BDF – Bedfordshire MDX - Middlesex Airfields Part 2 From the South East across to the South West Northumberland Durham We IOM 1 stm ore lan d Cumberland Yorkshire gham Lincolnshire hir e ste rs Staffordshire Cambridgeshire Suffolk HMS Buzzard Lympne, Kent 1939 Ex 22 Gp RAF - handed back to RAF May 1940 ire sh rd fo rd sh ire Essex MDX Cowdray Park, Sussex 1941 Out station airfield for Daedalus London Berkshire Somerset Surrey Wiltshire Kent Telscombe Cliffs, Sussex WW 1 Hampshire HMS Vulture, St Merryn, Cornwall 1940 -1953 Renamed Curlew in 1953 HMS Seahawk Culdrose, Cornwall 1947 - Was to have been named Chough Walmer Kent -1918 RNAS Dover Kent 1916 -1919 Also RNAS Guston BDF tfo rth am pto ns hir e Le ice Ox ire sh ter s ce ou Gl HUN Eastchurch, Sheppey 1913 -1918 RNAS He r Here HMS Vulture II Treligga, Cornwall 1916 -1918 RNAS No Worc es hire tershir e Warwickshire Shropshire Norfolk RUT Buckinghamshire HMS Heron, Yeovilton Somerset 1940 - RAF Merrifield used as satellite Westward Ho, Devon WW 1 RNAS Trevose Head Padstow, Cornwall 1917 -1918 Cheshire fords Merryfield, Somerset 1958 -60, 1972 - RNAS out field for Heron - also RAF Merryfield 1 Lancashire Derb HMS Heron II Charlton Horthorne 1942 -1945 To RAF in exchange for Zeals HMS Flycatcher Middle Wallop, Hants 1945 -1946 HQ MONAB Org. - returned to RAF Nottin HMS Humming Bird Zeals, Wiltshire 1945 -1946 Ex RAF yshir e HMS Dipper Henstridge, Somerset 1941 -1946 Early 1950's re-opened as satellite to Heron Sussex Devonshire Dorset IOW ll wa rn Co Predannock, Cornwall 1958 - Satellite to RNAS Culdrose HMS Heron II Haldon, Devon 1941 -1946 Ex RAF Prawle Point Devon 1917 -1918 RNAS HMS Peregrine Ford, Sussex 1939 -1958 Ex RAF - returned 1940 with RN as lodger - back to RN 1945 HMS Siskin Gosport, Hants HMS Raven Bembridge 1945 -1956 Eastleigh, Southampton Chickerell , Dorset Isle of Wight Was to have been 1939 -1947 WW 1 named Woodpecker, Included lodger facilities at RNAS and between RNAS lent by RAF originally RAF Christchurch the wars HMS Kestrel Worthy Down , Hampshire 1939 -1952 Ex RAF - included airfields at Bush Barn, Haslemere, Jersey

ENGLAND Seaplane Balloon Airship Combined Airship Sub Stations Northumberland Ramsay Isle of Man WW 1 Seaton Carew Co Durham WW 1 Durham lan d Cumberland stm ore Lowthorpe Yorks WW 1 RNAS Yorkshire Tipner , Portsmouth -1918 Balloon station -Closed 1919 and not -required by Air Ministry 1 Lancashire gham Shotley Suffolk 1912 -1919 Suffolk tfo rd sh ire BDF Essex Isle of Grain, Medway 1911 -1918 He r Buckinghamshire fo rd sh ire MDX Berkshire Surrey Kingsnorth, Kent 1912 -1918 RNAS Kent Hampshire Somerset Sussex Devonshire Dorset IOW RNAS Lands End Newlyn, Cornwall 1917 -1918 To RAF all nw r Co St Mary's Scilly Is 1917 -1918 RNAS Felixstowe Harwich Suffolk 1912 -1918 Seaplane station - Became radio station in 1920 London Wiltshire Bridport, Dorset 1917 -1918 HMS Osprey (Sarepta) Portland, Dorset 1916 -1918 To RAF as seaplane base - closed 1919 Slindon, Sussex WW 1 Upton, Dorset WW 1 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 WW 1 Cambridgeshire e hir ns pto HUN am No ire sh ter s ce ou Gl Laira, Devon WW 1 Sub station for Mullion Le ice Ox Norfolk RUT rth e tershir Worc es hire Here fords Cattewater Laira, Plymouth 1918 Mullion Cornwall 1915 -1918 To RAF - First known as Lizard Airship Tresco, Nr New Grimsby, Scilly Is 1917 -1918 Transferred to RAF Hickling Broad Norfolk 1916 -1918 ste Bude Cornwall 1915 -1918 To RAF 1918 -1919 - out station to Mullion Warwickshire Shropshire Torquay Devon 1918 Immingham Lincolnshire 1916 -1918 Lincolnshire rs Staffordshire Howden Yorks 1915 -1918 RNAS - Airship station Killingholme Haven , Lincs 1914 -1918 To USN 1918 - vacated by USN 1919 - RAF station WW 2 hir e Calshot, Hants 1913 -1918 To RAF between the wars Hornsea Mere Yorks 1915 -1919, to close 1919 and transferred to Killingholme Nottin yshir e Derb Cheshire Merifield, Cornwall 1919 At Wilcove with detachment at Torquay Kirkleathan Yorks WW 1 RNAS We IOM 1 HMS Daedalus Lee-on-Solent, Hants 1917 -18, 1939 -96 39 back from RAF - renamed Daedalus 1965 ex Ariel RUT – Rutland HUN – Huntingdonshire BDF – Bedfordshire MDX - Middlesex Chathill Northumberland WW 1 RNAS Newhaven Sussex 1917 -1919 RNAS Richmond Park Surrey WW 1 Sheerness Medway 1912 -1919 Not required by Air Ministry Westgate, Kent Dover/Marine, Kent 1916 WW 1 Godmersham Park Kent WW 1 West Mersham Kent WW 1 Capel Nr. Folkestone, Kent 1915 -1920 RNAS Polegate, Sussex 1916 -1918 Transferred from Dover to Portsmouth Command 1917

Additional Information… HMS Ariel II (Culcheth) Warrington, Lancs J ul-Dec 1952 RNAS *** Barrow in Furness Lancs 1916 -1918 RNAS *** Ramsay Isle of Man WW 1 Airship sub station HMS Humming Bird, Zeals, Wiltshire WW 1 RNAS *** Stonehenge Wiltshire 1918 RNAS Northumberland stm ore lan d HMS Hornbill II Beccles/Halesworth, Suffolk 1945 -1953 Ex RAF - lodger facilities We 1 Yorkshire Fairlop, Essex 1913 -1918 Sub station to Chingford - Now a Leisure Centre Cardington, Cambs WW 1 RNAS *** Chelmsford, Essex 1915 -1918 RNAS hir e am pto ns HUN Suffolk ire tfo He r ha B ki uc MDX London Berkshire Wiltshire Kent Surrey Hampshire Somerset Sussex Devonshire Dorset IOW all w rn Moreton, Dorset WW 1 RNAS - Not completed Co Lands End Nr St Just, Cornwall 1940 Temporary RNAS HMS Curlew St Merryn, Cornwall 1953 -1956 Transferred to Air Ministry 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 rd ms sh e hir fo rd sh ire Eastcote, Ruislip WW 1 RNAS BDF No ire sh ter s ce ou Gl Cambridgeshire hir e Le ice Ox Norfolk RUT rth e tershir Worc es hire fords Here Warwickshire ste rs Staffordshire ng HMS Heron II Henstridge Marsh Som. 1941 -1957 Commissioned as HMS Dipper - tender to Heron Lincolnshire Nottin yshir e Derb Cheshire Fort Grange Gosport, HMS Woodpecker Hants Gosport, Hants 1914 -1918 1945 RNAS - Became No 1 Name proposed for Naval Air Squadron RNAS Gosport but *** Siskin used instead HMS Ariel Worthy Down *** , Hampshire HMS Ariel Jul 1952 -1959 Lee-on-Solent, Hants Transferred from 1959 -1965 Warrington Daedalus renamed *** Ariel when ground HMS Daedalus III training moved there Lee/Bedhampton, Hants *** 1943 -1947 Lee-on-Solent Also release centre - Portsmouth known as Bedhampton -1918 Camp RNAS *** Arnold House Gosport Portsmouth Farnborough, Hants -1918 1912 -1918 RNAS gham shire 1 Lancashire Shropshire RUT – Rutland HUN – Huntingdonshire BDF – Bedfordshire MDX - Middlesex 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 IOM 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 WW 1 RNAS not completed *** Whitley Bay Northumberland 1916 RNAS 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 WW 1 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 WW 1 - closed 1919 *** HMS Bluebird III Folkestone, Kent 1942 -1944 Ex Air Sea Rescue Folkestone *** Wittersham, Kent WW 1 RNAS *** Ramsgate, Kent 1914 -1918 RNAS

WALES Airfields Seaplane Balloon Airship Conway Anglesey 1916 RNAS Additional Information… An gl Bangor Caernarvonshire WW 1 RNAS ey es Fli o arv nts De nb e hir ns hir igh ire ern er M Fishguard , Pembs 1917 -1918 RNAS io ne th sh ire Ca e sh HMS Goldcrest Brawdy, Pembrokeshire 1952 -1971 Ex Goldcrest II - transferred to RAF ire sh ery om ntg Mo ire sh an dig 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 Pe Glamorgan ire HMS St David Pembs 1947 -1961 Relief airfield for Brawdy thsh mou m br Brecknok Carmarthenshire Mon ok es hi re r Ca Pembroke Dock Pembrokeshire WW 1 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, Londonderry 1945 -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 WW 1 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 Mon agh Sligo Leitrim Lough Neough N Ireland WW 1 RNAS Not completed HMS Corncrake II Kirkistown, Co. Down 1945 -1946 On loan from RAF an Cavan Mayo Louth HMS Gadwall Sydenham, 1943 -1946 Ex RAF Became Gannet III Roscommon Longford Meath Westmeath HMS Mermaid Dublin 1916 -1919 Closed 1919 Galway Dublin Offaly Malahide Co. Dublin WW 1 RNAS HMS Pintail Nutts Corner, Crumlin 1945 -1946 From RAF - to RAF transport command Kildare Wexford Ireland WW 1 Used by USN Laois Wicklow Clare Carlow Queenstown Co. Cork WW 1 Used by USN not returned 1919 closed 1921 *** Whiddy Island Co. Cork WW 1 Used by USN Tipperary Limerick Kilkenny HMS Mermaid Co. Dublin 1916 -1919 Closed 1919 IRELAND 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 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 WW 1 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 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 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 WW 2 --HMS Goldfinch Takali, Malta 1943 -1953 Civil airport pre WW 2 --RNAS Kalafrana, Malta 1946 -1965 To Air Ministry HMS Eleusis Maleme, Crete WW 2 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 WW 2 RNAS HMS Kipanga II Voi, Pt. Reitz, Mackinnon Rd 1942 -1944/45 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 WW 2 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 VII HMS Ukussa Katakurunda, Ceylon 1942 -1946 RNAS HMS Rajawali Morib, Malaya 1941 -1942 --Sembawang Malaya 1940 -1971 RNAS --RNAS Selangor Malaya WW 2 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 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