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HMS Flycatcher (shore Establishment)
One ship and three shore establishments of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS ''Flycatcher'': * was an ex-Turkish motor patrol boat. Built in 1912 by Thornycroft, she was sunk on 9 November 1914 by HMS Espiegle in Shatt-al-Arab, salvaged, and returned to service late 1915, armed with 1 6-pounder gun and 1 machine gun. Sold c1923. * HMS ''Flycatcher'' (shore establishment) was a stone frigate for the Royal Navy's headquarters for its Mobile Naval Air Bases which supported their Fleet Air Arm units. It was based first at RNAS Ludham, Norfolk, between 4 September 1944 and 16 February 1945. It then moved to RNAS Middle Wallop, Hampshire, on 16 February 1945 and remained until paying off on 10 April 1946. * HMS ''Flycatcher'' (Hong Kong shore establishment) was recommissioned on 1 April 1947 for the Royal Navy presence located at RAF Kai Tak situated at Kai Tak Airport in Hong Kong, decommissioning on New Year's Eve of 1947. See also * List of air stations of the Royal Navy * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Espiegle
Eight ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS ''Espiegle'' * was a 16-gun French brig-sloop, launched at Bayonne in 1788. and captured her off Ushant on 30 November 1793. She was sold in 1802. * was a French 12-gun aviso launched in 1793 at Saint-Malo. captured her in the Antilles on 16 March 1794. She was commissioned under Lieutenant John Fishley. The Navy sold her in 1800. * was a 16-gun sloop, formerly the civilian vessel ''Wimbury'' (or ''Wembury''), launched at Barnstaple in 1803. The Admiralty purchased her in 1804 and sold her in 1811 for breaking up. * was an 18-gun launched in 1812 and sold in 1832. * was a 12-gun brig launched in 1844 and sold in 1861. * was a composite screw sloop launched in 1880. She became a boom vessel in 1899, was renamed HMS ''Argo'' in 1904 and was sold in 1921. * was a launched in 1900 and sold in 1923. * was an launched in 1942 and broken up in 1967. A gun-boat named ''Espiegle'' served in the navy's Egyptian campaign between ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Flycatcher (shore Establishment)
One ship and three shore establishments of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS ''Flycatcher'': * was an ex-Turkish motor patrol boat. Built in 1912 by Thornycroft, she was sunk on 9 November 1914 by HMS Espiegle in Shatt-al-Arab, salvaged, and returned to service late 1915, armed with 1 6-pounder gun and 1 machine gun. Sold c1923. * HMS ''Flycatcher'' (shore establishment) was a stone frigate for the Royal Navy's headquarters for its Mobile Naval Air Bases which supported their Fleet Air Arm units. It was based first at RNAS Ludham, Norfolk, between 4 September 1944 and 16 February 1945. It then moved to RNAS Middle Wallop, Hampshire, on 16 February 1945 and remained until paying off on 10 April 1946. * HMS ''Flycatcher'' (Hong Kong shore establishment) was recommissioned on 1 April 1947 for the Royal Navy presence located at RAF Kai Tak situated at Kai Tak Airport in Hong Kong, decommissioning on New Year's Eve of 1947. See also * List of air stations of the Royal Navy * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stone Frigate
A stone frigate is a naval establishment on land. 'Stone frigate' is an informal term which has its origin in Britain's Royal Navy (RN), after its use of Diamond Rock, an island off Martinique, as a 'sloop of war' to harass the First French Empire, French in 1803–1804. The Royal Navy was prohibited from ruling over land, so the land was Ship commissioning, commissioned as a ship. The command of this first stone frigate was given to Sir Samuel Hood, 1st Baronet, Commodore Hood's first lieutenant, James Wilkes Maurice, who, with cannon taken off the Commodore's ship, manned it with a crew of 120 until its capture by the French in the Battle of Diamond Rock in 1805. Until the late 19th century, the Royal Navy housed training and other support facilities in Hulk (ship type), hulks; old wooden ships of the line, moored in ports as receiving ships, depot ships, or floating barracks. The British Admiralty, Admiralty regarded shore accommodation as expensive, and liable to lead to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Navy
The Royal Navy (RN) is the naval warfare force of the United Kingdom. It is a component of His Majesty's Naval Service, and its officers hold their commissions from the King of the United Kingdom, King. Although warships were used by Kingdom of England, English and Kingdom of Scotland, Scottish kings from the early Middle Ages, medieval period, the first major maritime engagements were fought in the Hundred Years' War against Kingdom of France, France. The modern Royal Navy traces its origins to the English Navy of the early 16th century; the oldest of the British Armed Forces, UK's armed services, it is consequently known as the Senior Service. From the early 18th century until the World War II, Second World War, it was the world's most powerful navy. The Royal Navy played a key part in establishing and defending the British Empire, and four Imperial fortress colonies and a string of imperial bases and coaling stations secured the Royal Navy's ability to assert naval superior ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mobile Naval Air Bases
The Mobile Naval Airfield Organisation (MNAO) was the shore-based component of the naval air logistics organisation. This comprised two types of units, a Mobile Operational Naval Air Base (MONAB) and a Transportable Aircraft Maintenance Yard (TAMY). These were mobile units, the first of which formed in 1944, to provide logistical support to the Fleet Air Arm squadrons of the Royal Navy's British Pacific Fleet, towards the end of World War II. There were a number of units within and each unit was self-contained and designed to service and repair aircraft and engines. Each were initially assembled at the MNAO headquarters at , which first commissioned at RNAS Ludham, Norfolk, then later at RNAS Middle Wallop, Hampshire, both in the UK, and then were forward deployed. When the naval threat in the Atlantic was clearly vanishing, with the decline of Nazi Germany, proposals were made to involve the Royal Navy in the Pacific War. The United States Navy's Commander-in-Chief, Admir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fleet Air Arm
The Fleet Air Arm (FAA) is the naval aviation component of the United Kingdom's Royal Navy (RN). The FAA is one of five :Fighting Arms of the Royal Navy, RN fighting arms. it is a primarily helicopter force, though also operating the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II, F-35 Lightning II carrier-based stealth fighter jointly with the Royal Air Force. The RAF was formed by the 1918 merger of the RN's Royal Naval Air Service with the British Army's Royal Flying Corps. The FAA did not come under the direct control of the Admiralty (United Kingdom), Admiralty until mid-1939. During the Second World War, the FAA operated aircraft on ships as well as land-based aircraft that defended List of Royal Navy shore establishments, the Royal Navy's shore establishments and facilities. History Beginnings British naval flying started in 1909, with the construction of an airship for naval duties. In 1911 the Royal Navy graduated its first aeroplane pilots at the Royal Aero Club RAF Eastchu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RNAS Ludham
Royal Air Force Ludham or more simply RAF Ludham is a former Royal Air Force List of former Royal Air Force stations, station located approximately northeast of the village of Ludham, and east-northeast of Norwich, in the county of Norfolk, England. Although most of the airfield site has returned to agriculture, a small portion of the east–west runway is still used for private flying. History The airfield at Ludham was built by Richard Costain Ltd and became operational in November 1941 as a second satellite for the main fighter station at RAF Coltishall sited north of Norwich, three tarmac-covered concrete runways and ancillary buildings being built on the land which had belonged to Fritton Farm. A total of ten RAF fighter squadrons (eight flying various marks of Supermarine Spitfire, and two flying the Hawker Typhoon 1B were based here between December 1941 and July 1945. Fighter duties from Ludham were fairly regular and generally coastal and convoy patrols of little not ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norfolk
Norfolk ( ) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in England, located in East Anglia and officially part of the East of England region. It borders Lincolnshire and The Wash to the north-west, the North Sea to the north and east, Cambridgeshire to the west, and Suffolk to the south. The largest settlement is the city of Norwich. The county has an area of and a population of 859,400. It is largely rural with few large towns: after Norwich (147,895), the largest settlements are King's Lynn (42,800) in the north-west, Great Yarmouth (38,693) in the east, and Thetford (24,340) in the south. For local government purposes Norfolk is a non-metropolitan county with seven districts. The centre of Norfolk is gently undulating lowland. To the east are the Broads, a network of rivers and lakes which extend into Suffolk and which are protected by the Broads Authority, which give them a similar status to a National parks of England and Wales, national park. To the west the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RNAS Middle Wallop
Middle Wallop Flying Station is a British Army airfield located near the Hampshire village of Middle Wallop. It is the Headquarters for the Army Air Corps, and the 1st Aviation Brigade Combat Team, and is also used for Army Air Corps training. The base hosts 2 (Training) Regiment AAC and 7 (Training) Regiment AAC under the umbrella of the Army Aviation Centre. 2 Regiment performs ground training; 7 Regiment trains aircrew on AAC aircraft after they complete basic training at RAF Shawbury. The base is notable for having previously served as both a Royal Navy (as HMS ''Flycatcher'') and a Royal Air Force (as RAF Middle Wallop) controlled airfield, as well as an Army one initially as Middle Wallop Airfield. History Early use The base was opened as RAF Middle Wallop, a training school for new pilots in 1940. It was originally intended for bomber use; however, with the Battle of Britain being fought, No. 609 Squadron RAF, flying the Supermarine Spitfire Ia, and No. 238 Sq ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hampshire
Hampshire (, ; abbreviated to Hants.) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South East England. It is bordered by Berkshire to the north, Surrey and West Sussex to the east, the Isle of Wight across the Solent to the south, Dorset to the west, and Wiltshire to the north-west. Southampton is the largest settlement, while Winchester is the county town. Other significant settlements within the county include Portsmouth, Basingstoke, Andover, Hampshire, Andover, Gosport, Fareham and Aldershot. The county has an area of and a population of 1,844,245, making it the Counties in England by population, 5th-most populous in England. The South Hampshire built-up area in the south-east of the county has a population of 855,569 and contains the cities of Southampton (269,781) and Portsmouth (208,100). In the north-east, the Farnborough, Hampshire, Farnborough/Aldershot Farnborough/Aldershot built-up area, conurbation extends into Berkshire and Surrey and has a populati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Flycatcher (Hong Kong Shore Establishment)
Royal Air Force Kai Tak or more commonly RAF Kai Tak is a former Royal Air Force station situated in Hong Kong, at Kai Tak Airport, Kowloon. It was established by the Royal Air Force (RAF) in 1927 and used for seaplanes. The RAF flight operated a few land based aircraft as well as having spare aircraft for naval units. It was also the location of HMS ''Nabcatcher'', a Royal Navy Mobile Operational Naval Air Base, (MONAB) VIII, which was there between 1945 and 1947. At the start of April 1947, it was decommissioned and concurrently re-commissioned as HMS ''Flycatcher''. At the end of December, HMS ''Flycatcher'' was officially decommissioned at Kai Tak, although the Royal Navy retained lodger rights. The lodging facilities ceased to operate following the official decommissioning of RAF Kai Tak on 30 June 1978, at which point all RAF units and responsibilities were transferred to RAF Sek Kong. Royal Navy Beginnings (1939–1941) On 24 May 1939, the control of all Fleet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RAF Kai Tak
Royal Air Force Kai Tak or more commonly RAF Kai Tak is a former Royal Air Force station situated in Hong Kong, at Kai Tak Airport, Kowloon. It was established by the Royal Air Force (RAF) in 1927 and used for seaplanes. The RAF flight operated a few land based aircraft as well as having spare aircraft for naval units. It was also the location of HMS ''Nabcatcher'', a Royal Navy Mobile Operational Naval Air Base, (MONAB) VIII, which was there between 1945 and 1947. At the start of April 1947, it was decommissioned and concurrently re-commissioned as HMS ''Flycatcher''. At the end of December, HMS ''Flycatcher'' was officially decommissioned at Kai Tak, although the Royal Navy retained lodger rights. The lodging facilities ceased to operate following the official decommissioning of RAF Kai Tak on 30 June 1978, at which point all RAF units and responsibilities were transferred to RAF Sek Kong. Royal Navy Beginnings (1939–1941) On 24 May 1939, the control of all Flee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
