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AIRFIELDSSEAPLANE STATIONSBALLOON STATIONSAIRSHIP STATIONS
AIRSHIP SUB STATIONSCOMBINED STATIONS
CLICK TO ADVANCE
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 Charles2010
1 Ross & Cromarty
1
Kirkcudbrightshire
Aberdeenshire
BanffshireMorayshireNairn
2
2Inverness-shire
Caithness
Sutherland
2
Stirlingshire.
3
3
Argyllshire
Perthshire
Angus
Kincardineshire
2
2
3
Lanarkshire
Renfrewshire
Fife
Pee
bles
Berwickshire
East Lothian Mid Lothian
Ayrshire
Dumfries
RoxburhshireSelki
rk
Wigtown
HMS Owl Fearn/Evanton, Ross-shire
1942-1946 Transferred from RAF
HMS Fieldfare Evanton Ross-shire
1920-1946 RNAS lodger between the wars
HMS Tern II, Skeabrae, Dounreay, Hatston11944 – 1954. To Air Ministry 1954
HMS Tern, Twatt, Orkney 1942-1946. Satellite to Sparrowhawk 1941 Smoogroo, Scapa Flow
1915-1919
HMSSparrowhawk, Hatston, Orkney 1939-1945,
Became Tern II
HMS Robin, GrimsetterKirkwall, Orkney
1943-1945, Ex RAF - tender toSparrowhawk
- back to RAF
HMS FulmarLossiemouth
1946-1972 Ex RAF and returned to RAF
HMS Fulmar IIMilltown
1946-1972 Ex RAF and returned to RAF – satellite of Fulmar
HMS Merganser Crimmond/Rattery
1944-1946 Known as Crimmond until
1945 then Rattery
HMS Condor, Arbroath, Angus, 1940-1970,
Became RM Barracks
HMS Peewit East Haven
Angus1943-1946
Was to have been named Dotterel
Leuchers Fife 1914-1918
Then to RAF - lodger basis
1935-38 & 1972-79
3
3
3
3
HMS Jackdaw II Dunino, Fife 1942-1946
Ex RAF
HMS Jackdaw Crail, Fife 1940-1947
RNAS
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
Turnhouse, Midlothian -1918
RNAS - RAF lodger 1942-1944
DNB - DunbartonshireCLK - ClackmannanshireKRS - Kinross-shireWL - West Lothian
DNB
KRSCLK
WL
Orkneys
HMS Gannet Prestwick, Ayr
1971-Lodger airfield 1940/41
HMS Wagtail Heathfield, Ayr
1944-1946 Transferred from RAF on loan
HMS Landrail Campbeltown
1940-1941 Civil airport requisitioned
by Air Ministry
HMS Landrail II Campbeltown
1941-1945
HMS Sanderling Abbotsinch 1943-1963 Lodger basis from 1939
-transferred from RAF - to Min of Av
Airfields
1Ross & Cromarty
1
Ross &
Cro
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Kirkcudbrightshire
Aberdeenshire
Banffs
hireMorayshire
Nairn
2
2 Inverness-shire
Caithness
Sutherland
2
Stirlingshire
DNB - DunbartonshireCLK - ClackmannanshireKRS - Kinross-shireWL - West Lothian
DNB
3
3
Argyllshire
Perthshire
Angus
Kincardineshire
2
2
3
Lanarkshire
Renfrewshire
Fife
CLKKRS
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Berwickshire
East LothianMid Lothian
Ayrshire
Dumfries
RoxburhshireSelkirk
Wigtown
3
3
3
Orkneys SeaplaneBalloonAirship
Airship Sub Stations
Catfirth Zetland,
Shetlands -1918 RNAS
Caldale Scapa Flow1915-1919
North Queensferry Forth
1917-1918 Balloon station
Houton Bay, Scapa Flow 1915-1919
Was also Kite Balloon Station
Steness, Scapa Flow 1915-1919
Strathbeg Aberdeen
-1918
Longside Aberdeen 1915-1918
East Fortune East Lothian
1916-1918 RNAS
Luce Bay Wigtownshire
1916-1918 RNAS
Rosyth Forth
1917-1918
HMS Condor II Dundee, Scotland
1941-1944
Hawkscraig, Fife 1912-1919
RNAS - Seaplane station
Auldbar, Angus, 1917-1918,
To RAF
1Ross & Cromarty
1
Ross &
Cro
mar
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Kirkcudbrightshire
Aberdeenshire
Banffs
hireMorayshire
Nairn
2
2 Inverness-shire
Caithness
Sutherland
2
Stirlingshire
DNB - DunbartonshireCLK - ClackmannanshireKRS - Kinross-shireWL - West Lothian
DNB
3
3
Argyllshire
Perthshire
Angus
Kincardineshire
2
2
3
Lanarkshire
Renfrewshire
Fife
CLKKRS
WL
Peeb
les
Berwickshire
East LothianMid Lothian
Ayrshire
Dumfries
RoxburhshireSelkirk
Wigtown
3
3
3
Orkneys
Swarbacks MinnScapa Flow1915-1919
RNAS***
HMS Campania Scapa Flow 1914-1918
Used as Scapa seaplane base, sunk in 1918
Scapa Bay Scapa Flow 1915-1919
RNAS***
HMS Icarus Houton Bay
Scapa/Caldale 1917-1918
Central depot for air services Orkney
Rattray, Aberdeen WW1 RNAS
***HMS Rattray
Crimond 1945-1946
Ex Merganser
HMS DotterelEast Haven, Angus
1943Original name selected but opened as Peewit
***Stannergate
Dundee, 1914-1918
RN seaplane site
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
Roxburgh, Kelso, Roxburgshire
WW2 Transferred to Air
Ministry 1942
HMS Siskin Dounreay, Caithness
1944 Ex RAF transferred to
RN but little used
Lossiemouth Morayshire WW1
RNAS - Combined station
Banff, Morayshire Lent to RNAS for bombing 1947
- presumably Lossiemouth
Fort George Cromarty 1912-1915
RNAS - Closed 1916
Inchinnan Renfrewshire
WW1 RNAS
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?
Lerwick Shetlands 1915-1918
RNAS - To RAF
Additional Information…
Northumberland
CumberlandDurham
Yorkshire
1Lancashire
Cheshire
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Lincolnshire
Shropshire
Wes
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Leice
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RUT – RutlandHUN – HuntingdonshireBDF – BedfordshireMDX - Middlesex
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War
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Surrey
Hampshire
Wiltshire
IOM
IOW
DorsetDevonshire
Cornwall
Somerset
Airfields Part 1From Northumberland across to
Lancashire, to Berkshire in the south.
New Haggerston, Northumberland
WW1, RNASSeahouses
Northumberland WW1, RNAS
Ashington Northumberland
WW1, RNAS
Tynemouth Northumberland
1918, RNASSeaton Carew ,Co Durham
WW1, RNASRedcar, Co Durham
1916-1918 RNAS
HMS NuthatchAnthorn, Cumberland
1944-1960, RN lodger unit 1940 - NATO radio
station from 1964
HMS UrleyRonaldsway,
IOM1944-1946
Ex civil airport
HMS Nightjar,Inskip, Lancs,
1943-1946 Originally called RNAS Elswick
- later became radio station
HMS Ringtail Burscough, Ormskirk
1943-1946 RNAS
HMS Ringtail II, Woodvale, Formby
1945-1946 Ex RAF on indefinite loan HMS Blackcap
Stretton, Lancs 1942-1958
Facilities no longer required by RAF, transferred to RN
HMS Godwit Ollerton/Hinstock, Salop
1942-1947 Known as Ollerton until 1943
then as Hinstock HMS Godwit II
Peplow/Weston Park, Salop 1945-1949
Ex RAF - satellite landing ground at Weston Park
West Ayton, YorkshireWW1, RNAS
Atwick, Yorkshire1914-1918
RNAS
Owthorne , Yorks, 1917, RNASGreenland Top
Lincs 1914-1918
RNAS
North Coates, Lincolnshire 1915-1918
RAF lodger 1940-41Holt , Norfolk
1916-1918 RNAS - Night landing ground
Bacton, Norfolk 1916-1918
Night landing ground
HMS Flycatcher Ludham, Norfolk
1944-1945 Returned to RAF in 1945,
exchanged for Middle Wallop
Pulham, Norfolk 1916-1918
RNAS - Airship station
Covehithe, Suffolk 1916-1918
RNAS
HMS Sparrowhawk Halesworth, Suffolk
1945-1946 Transferred from RAF and returned to them
Aldeburgh ,Suffolk RNAS
1916-1918
Butley, Suffolk WW1 RNAS
Became RAF Bentwaters then to USAF
HMS Gamecock Bramcote, Nuneaton
1943-1959 Ex RAF - transferred to Army
(Royal Artillery)
HMS HornbillCulham, Berkshire
1944 – 1953
Bush Barn Berkshire 1944-1945
Out station airfield for Kestrel
Chingford Essex
1913-1918 RNAS - Now a reservoir
Northumberland
CumberlandDurham
Yorkshire
1Lancashire
Cheshire
Der
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Not
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Lincolnshire
Shropshire
Wes
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Leice
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RUT
RUT – RutlandHUN – HuntingdonshireBDF – BedfordshireMDX - Middlesex
HUN
Ca
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Norfolk
Suffolk
EssexW
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Gloucestershire
Oxfordshire
Berkshire
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Sussex
1
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Wa
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Surrey
HampshireWiltshire
IOM
IOW
DorsetDevonshire
Cornwall
Somerset
Airfields Part 2From the South East across
to the South West
Predannock, Cornwall 1958-
Satellite to RNAS Culdrose
HMS SeahawkCuldrose, Cornwall
1947- Was to have been
named Chough
HMS Vulture, St Merryn, Cornwall
1940-1953 Renamed Curlew
in 1953
RNAS Trevose Head Padstow, Cornwall
1917-1918
HMS Vulture II Treligga, Cornwall
1916-1918 RNAS
Westward Ho, Devon WW1 RNAS
Prawle PointDevon
1917-1918 RNAS
HMS Heron II Haldon, Devon
1941-1946 Ex RAF
Merryfield, Somerset 1958-60,1972-
RNAS out field for Heron
- also RAF Merryfield
HMS Heron, Yeovilton Somerset
1940- RAF Merrifield used
as satellite
HMS Heron II Charlton Horthorne
1942-1945 To RAF in exchange for Zeals
HMS Dipper Henstridge, Somerset
1941-1946 Early 1950's re-opened
as satellite to Heron
Chickerell ,Dorset WW1
RNAS and between the wars
Bembridge Isle of Wight
WW1 RNAS
HMS Humming Bird Zeals, Wiltshire
1945-1946 Ex RAF
HMS Flycatcher Middle Wallop,
Hants 1945-1946 HQ MONAB
Org.- returned to RAF
HMS Raven Eastleigh, Southampton
1939-1947 Included lodger facilities at
RAF Christchurch
HMS Kestrel Worthy Down , Hampshire
1939-1952 Ex RAF - included airfields at Bush Barn, Haslemere, Jersey
HMS Siskin Gosport, Hants
1945-1956 Was to have been
named Woodpecker, lent by RAF originally
HMS Peregrine Ford, Sussex 1939-1958
Ex RAF - returned 1940 with RN as lodger - back to RN 1945
Telscombe Cliffs,Sussex
WW1
Cowdray Park, Sussex 1941
Out station airfield for Daedalus
HMS Buzzard Lympne, Kent
1939 Ex 22 Gp RAF - handed back to RAF May 1940
Dover Kent 1916-1919
Also RNAS Guston
Walmer Kent -1918 RNASEastchurch, Sheppey
1913-1918 RNAS
Northumberland
CumberlandDurham
Yorkshire
1Lancashire
Cheshire
Der
bysh
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Not
tingh
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Lincolnshire
Shropshire
Wes
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Staffordshire
Leice
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RUT
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HUN
Ca
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Norfolk
Suffolk
EssexW
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Gloucestershire
Oxfordshire
Berkshire
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Sussex
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Surrey
Hampshire
Wiltshire
IOM
IOWDorsetDevonshire
Cornwall
Somerset
SeaplaneBalloonAirship
CombinedAirship Sub Stations Ramsay
Isle of Man WW1
Chathill Northumberland
WW1 RNAS
Kirkleathan Yorks WW1 RNAS
Lowthorpe Yorks WW1 RNAS
Seaton Carew Co Durham
WW1
Hornsea Mere Yorks
1915-1919, to close 1919 and
transferredto Killingholme
Howden Yorks
1915-1918 RNAS - Airship station Killingholme Haven , Lincs
1914-1918 To USN 1918 - vacated by USN 1919
- RAF station WW2
Immingham Lincolnshire1916-1918
Cranwell Lincs
1915-1918 Transferred to RAF
Hickling Broad Norfolk
1916-1918
South Denes Great Yarmouth, Norfolk
1911-1918 Lowestoft
SuffolkWW1
Shotley Suffolk
1912-1919
Felixstowe Harwich Suffolk
1912-1918 Seaplane station- Became radio station in 1920
Isle of Grain,Medway
1911-1918 Sheerness
Medway 1912-1919
Not required by Air MinistryKingsnorth,Kent 1912-1918 RNAS
Westgate, Kent 1916Dover/Marine, Kent
WW1
Capel Nr. Folkestone,
Kent 1915-1920
RNAS
Godmersham Park Kent
WW1 West Mersham
Kent WW1
Polegate,Sussex 1916-1918 Transferred from Dover
to Portsmouth Command 1917
NewhavenSussex
1917-1919 RNAS
Bembridge Harbour Isle of Wight
1916-1918
HMS Daedalus II Sandbanks, Dorset
1940-1943
HMS Osprey (Sarepta) Portland, Dorset
1916-1918 To RAF as seaplane base
- closed 1919
Upton, Dorset WW1
Bridport, Dorset 1917-1918
RNAS Lands End Newlyn, Cornwall
1917-1918To RAF
Mullion Cornwall 1915-1918
To RAF - First known as
Lizard Airship
Bude Cornwall 1915-1918
To RAF 1918-1919 - out station to Mullion
Merifield, Cornwall 1919
At Wilcove with detachment at Torquay
Laira, DevonWW1
Sub station for Mullion
Tresco, Nr New Grimsby, Scilly Is
1917-1918 Transferred to RAF
St Mary's Scilly Is 1917-1918 RNAS
Cattewater Laira, Plymouth
1918
Torquay Devon 1918
Calshot, Hants 1913-1918
To RAF between the wars
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
Slindon, Sussex WW1
Richmond Park Surrey WW1
Northumberland
CumberlandDurham
Yorkshire
1Lancashire
Cheshire
Der
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Not
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Lincolnshire
Shropshire
Wes
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Staffordshire
Leice
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RUT
RUT – RutlandHUN – HuntingdonshireBDF – BedfordshireMDX - Middlesex
HUN
Ca
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Norfolk
Suffolk
EssexW
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Gloucestershire
Oxfordshire
Berkshire
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Sussex
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Wa
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Surrey
Hampshire
Wiltshire
IOM
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DorsetDevonshire
Cornwall
Somerset
Fairlop, Essex 1913-1918
Sub station to Chingford - Now a Leisure Centre
***
Chelmsford, Essex 1915-1918
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
Cardington, Cambs WW1 RNAS
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
HMS Hornbill II Beccles/Halesworth, Suffolk
1945-1953 Ex RAF - lodger facilities
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
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
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 1940-
1941 - RNAS
HMS Ariel II (Culcheth) Warrington, Lancs J
ul-Dec1952 RNAS
***Barrow in Furness
Lancs 1916-1918
RNAS ***
Ramsay Isle of Man
WW1 Airship sub station
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
HMS Heron II Henstridge Marsh Som. 1941-1957
Commissioned as HMS Dipper - tender to Heron Eastcote,
Ruislip WW1 RNAS
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
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
Lands End Nr St Just, Cornwall
1940 Temporary RNAS
HMS Curlew St Merryn, Cornwall
1953-1956 Transferred to Air
Ministry
HMS Chough Culdrose, Cornwall 1944-1947 Name whilst under
construction, changed on completion
Moreton, Dorset WW1
RNAS - Not completed
Additional Information…
Anglesey
Mer
ione
thsh
ire
Glamorgan
Cardiganshire
Montgomeryshire
Denbighshire
Caernarvonshire
Flintshire
BrecknokCarmarthenshire
Pembr
okes
hire
Radnorshire
Monm
outhshire
Conway Anglesey
1916 RNAS
Bangor Caernarvonshire
WW1 RNAS
Pembroke Dock Pembrokeshire
WW1
Milford Haven Pembrokeshire
1916
HMS Daedalus II Lawrenny Ferry, Pembsrokeshire
1942-1943 Ex RAF and detached from Pembroke dock
Fishguard ,Pembs 1917-1918
RNAS
HMS Goldcrest Dale, Pembrokeshire
1943-1948 From Angle to Ex RAF Station
- became Harrier in 1948
HMS Goldcrest Brawdy,
Pembrokeshire 1952-1971
Ex Goldcrest II - transferred to RAF
HMS St David Pembs
1947-1961 Relief airfield for Brawdy
AirfieldsSeaplaneBalloonAirship
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)
AdditionalInformation…
Carlow
Lough Neough
Armagh
DownFermanagh
Tyrone
AntrimLondonderry
Galway
Roscommon
Mayo
Sligo
CavanLeitrim
Monaghan
Donegal
Laois
KilkennyTipperary
Wexford
Waterford
CorkKerry
Limerick
Clare
Longford
Westmeath
Louth
Meath
Dublin
Wicklow
KildareOffaly
AirfieldsBalloon
Airship Sub Stations
HMS Corncrake Ballyhalbert, Co. Down
1945 Transferred to RAF in 1946 with
RN lodger facilities
HMS Corncrake II Kirkistown, Co. Down
1945-1946 On loan from RAF
HMS Gadwall Sydenham,1943-1946
Ex RAF Became Gannet III
HMS Pintail Nutts Corner, Crumlin
1945-1946 From RAF - to RAF transport
command
HMS Shrike Maydown, Co .Down
1943-1945 Ex RAF - became Gannet II
HMS Gannet Eglinton, Co. Londonderry
1943-1959 Lent by RAF, transferred to RN 1947,
reopened as Sea Eagle
HMS Mermaid Co. Dublin 1916-1919
Closed 1919
Malahide Co. Dublin
WW1 RNAS
Larne Co. Antrim 1916-1918
RNAS
Ballyliffan Co. Donegal
WW1 RNAS
Rathmullan Co. Donegal
-1918
Killeagh Co. Cork
WW1 RNAS
Queenstown Co. Cork
WW1 Used by USN not returned 1919
closed 1921 ***
Whiddy Island Co. Cork
WW1 Used by USN
Lough Foyle Co. Donegal
1915-1919 RNAS
Lough Neough N Ireland
WW1 RNAS Not completed
HMS Mermaid Dublin
1916-1919 Closed 1919
Wexford Ireland WW1
Used by USN
HMS Gannet II Sydenham, Co. Antrim
1946-1973 Ex HMS Gadwall - to RAF
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?)
Additional Information…
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.
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
RNAS Saker Brunswick Maine
1943-1945 RN/USN
HMS Moga Jamaica 1943-1944
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
HMS Cormorant II Gibraltar 1940-1944
RAF North Front, transferred to RN then back to RAF
HMS Force Profit Iceland 1940
Comprised aircraft at Iceland - on
books Daedalus
Murmansk Russia 1914-1917
Transferred to Royal Marines 1917
HMS Wara ,Komenda Takoraal,
G. Coast 1942-1943 RNAS
Hyeres Toulon France
1940 - RNAS
Dunkirk France
1916-1918 Closed 1919 - RNAS
Boulogne France
1915-1919 RNAS
Cherbourg,France
1917-1918 RNAS
VendomeLa Rochelle
1918 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
Gibraltar 1915-1918 Seaplane base - To RAF Kite Balloon
station evacuated 1919
St Pol, France 1917 RNAS
HMS Spurwing, Hastings, Sierra Leone 1943-1944
Transferred from RAF
RNAS Tafar Oui Oran 1943
Under Cormorant II
Marquise France
1915-1919 RNAS
HMS Queen II Taranto, S. Italy
1917-1918 Parent Ship
RNAS Southern Italy at Pizzone
RNAS ‘The Rest of the World’PART 1
Langata Nairobi, Kenya
WW2 RNAS
HMS Kipanga II Voi, Pt. Reitz,
Mackinnon Rd 1942-1944/45
RNAS
HMS Kipanga Killindini, Kenya
1942-1944 Depot for RN air
personnel ashore in East Africa
HMS Rapax, Hiswa, Aden 1944-1945
RNAS at RAF Station HMS Maraga
Addu Atoll 1944-1946
RNAS
HMS Vairi, Sular, Coinbatore, India
1944-1946 Transferred from RAF
HMS Bambara Trincomalee, Ceylon
1944-1947 Transferred to RAF 1951 - known as RNAS Trinco
RNAS Kantali Ceylon 1944-1950
Returned to RAF
HMS Flycatcher Kai Tak, Hong Kong
1947 Ex Nabcatcher (MONAB VIII)
---HMS Nabcatcher
Middle Wallop/Kai Tak, Hong Kong 1945-1947 MONAB VIII
HMS Rajaliya Puttalam, Ceylon
1943-1945 Transferred to local
civil authority
HMS Nabaron Ludham/Manus, Adm Is
1944-1945
MONAB IV
HMS Kilele, Tanga, Tanganyika
1942-1945 RNAS
HMS London Zanzibar -1918
Closed 1919 - given in exchange for Heligoland
in 1890
HMS Bherunda Colombo, Ceylon
1943-1945 Was Colombo racecourse,
RAF Station taken over by RNHMS Malagas
Wingfield/Wynberg, SA 1942-1946
Ex Union Government airfield which was
developed HMS Ukussa
Katakurunda, Ceylon 1942-1946
RNAS
HMS Sheathbill Pt San Carlos,
Falkland Is 1982 Unofficial name for
Forward Operating Base
HMS RajawaliMorib, Malaya
1941-1942 ---
Sembawang Malaya 1940-1971
RNAS ---
RNAS Selangor Malaya
WW2
HMS Nabstock Middle Wallop/Marybrough
1945-1946
MONAB VI
HMS Nabberley Ludham/Bankstown, Sydney 1944-1946
MONAB II---
HMS Nabthorpe Ludham/Schofields, NSW
1944-1945
MONAB III
HMS Nabswick Ludham/Jervis Bay/Nowra
1944-1946
MONAB V
Morib Malaya WW2 RNAS
HMS Albatross Nowra, New South Wales
1944-1946 Used by Nabbington &
Nabswick then to RAAF & RAAN
---HMS Nabbington
Ludham/Nowra, NSW 1944-1945
MONAB I
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
HMS Nabreekie Middle Wallop/Meeandah
1945
MONAB VII
RNAS ‘The Rest of the World’PART 2
Compiled on behalf of Cloud Observers by MIS 2010
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
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