HMS Nabsford
| HMS Nabsford Transportable Aircraft Maintenance Yard I  | |||||||||||
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| at RAAF Station Archerfield, in Brisbane, Queensland in Australia | |||||||||||
  HMS Nabsford Location within Queensland  HMS Nabsford HMS Nabsford (Australia) | |||||||||||
| Coordinates | 27°34′10″S 153°00′28″E / 27.56944°S 153.00778°E | ||||||||||
| Type | Transportable Aircraft Maintenance Yard | ||||||||||
| Site information | |||||||||||
| Owner | Department of Defence | ||||||||||
| Operator |  Royal Navy (1945-1946) | ||||||||||
| Controlled by | Fleet Air Arm (1945-1946) | ||||||||||
| Site history | |||||||||||
| In use | 1945–1946 (Fleet Air Arm) | ||||||||||
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| Garrison information | |||||||||||
| Garrison | TAMY I | ||||||||||
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| Airfield information | |||||||||||
| Elevation | 50 feet (15 m) AMSL | ||||||||||
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| Source: Royal Navy Research Archive[1][2] | |||||||||||
HMS Nabsford was a Royal Navy (RN), Transportable Aircraft Maintenance Yard (TAMY), which was situated at the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) airfield RAAF Station Archerfield situated in Brisbane, Queensland. HMS Nabsford was also known as TAMY I and Royal Naval Aircraft Maintenance Yard Archerfield (or RNAMY Archerfield).[3]
Commanding officers
[edit]List of commanding officers of HMS Nabsford with date of appointment:[4]
Units based at HMS Nabsford
[edit]List of units associated with TAMY I, in support of an Aircraft Maintenance Yard:
Function
[edit]- Aircraft Maintenance Yard
Aviation support components
[edit]- Mobile Repair (MR) No. 3
- Mobile, Storage & Reserve (MSR) No. 7
- Mobile, Storage & Reserve (MSR) No. 8
Aircraft type supported
[edit]- Grumman Avenger Mk.I & II
- Fairey Barracuda Mk II
- Vought Corsair Mk II & IV
- Beech Expeditor II
- Fairey Firefly I
- Grumman Hellcat F. Mk. I & II
- Miles Martinet TT.Mk I
- Stinson Reliant
- Supermarine Seafire F Mk III & L Mk III
- Supermarine Sea Otter I
- de Havilland Tiger Moth I
- Vultee Vengeance TT. Mk IV
Squadrons at HMS Nabsford
[edit]List of Fleet Air Arm first and second line squadrons, station flight and other flying units either based at or disembarked to RNAMY Archerfield (HMS Nabsford) and TAMY I:
- 721 Naval Air Squadron, a Fleet Requirements Unit, disembarked here from HMS Unicorn to regroup and re-equip at RNAMY Archerfield on 15 October 1945. It was issued with twelve Vultee Vengeance target tug aircraft, six Boulton Paul Defiant target tug aircraft, nine Vought Corsair, two Grumman Avenger torpedo bomber and a North American Harvard training aircraft. It embarked in HMS Speaker on 28 December 1945.[5]
- 1701 Naval Air Squadron's air-sea rescue (ASR) 'A' Flight moved here from RNAS Maryborough (HMS Nabstock) on 1 November 1945, equipped with three Supermarine Sea Otter, an amphibious air-sea rescue aircraft. Its stay was short and it embarked in the escort carrier HMS Striker on 4 November.[6]
- 1845 Naval Air Squadron, a Single Seat Fighter Squadron formed here on 1 June 1945, equipped with twenty-four Vought Corsair Mk IV fighter bomber. It moved to RNAS Maryborough (HMS Nabstock) on 23 June 1945.[7]
References
[edit]Citations
[edit]- ^ "TAMY I - HMS Nabsford". Royal Navy Research Archive - The MONAB Story - A history of the mobile airfields of the Royal Navy. Retrieved 20 October 2024.
- ^ "Archerfield". Royal Navy Research Archive - Fleet Air Arm Bases 1939 - present day. Retrieved 20 October 2024.
- ^ Hobbs 2007, p. 159.
- ^ Hobbs 2007, p. 157.
- ^ Ballance, Howard & Sturtivant 2016, p. 26.
- ^ Ballance, Howard & Sturtivant 2016, p. 275.
- ^ Ballance, Howard & Sturtivant 2016, p. 296.
Bibliography
[edit]- Ballance, Theo; Howard, Lee; Sturtivant, Ray (2016). The Squadrons and Units of the Fleet Air Arm. Air Britain Historians Limited. ISBN 978-0-85130-489-2.
- Hobbs, David (2007). Moving Bases Royal Navy Maintenance Carriers and MONABs. Liskeard, Cornwall, UK: Maritime Books. ISBN 978-1-904459-30-9.