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3. June 1940 |
773 NAS formed at RNAS
Bermuda |
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25. April 1944 |
773 NAS disbanded at
RNAS Bermuda |
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1. June 1945 |
773 NAS formed at RNAS
Lee-on-Solent |
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30. Sepember 1946 |
773 NAS disbanded at
RNAS Brawdy |
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6. January 1949 |
773 NAS formed at RNAS
Lee-on-Solent |
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31. March 1949 |
773 NAS disbanded at
RNAS Brawdy |
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4. January 1950 |
773 NAS formed at RNAS
Lee-on-Solent |
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31. March 1950 |
773 NAS disbanded at
RNAS Lee-on-Solent |
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1. September 1950 |
773 NAS formed at RNAS
Lee-on-Solent |
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31. March 1951 |
773 NAS disbanded at
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Jun. 1940 - Sep. 1943
Walrus I |
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Jun. 1940 - Apr. 1944
Swordfish I |
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Sep. 1941 - Apr. 1944
Roc I |
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Aug. 1940 . Jul. 1941
Seafox I |
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Sep. 1945 - Nov. 1945
Anson C.XII |
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Jul. 1946 - Aug. 1946
Queen Martinet TT.I |
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Jan. 1949 - Mar. 1949
Sea Fury FB.11 |
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Jan. 1949 - Mar. 1949
Martinet TT.1 |
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Jan. 1950 - Mar. 1950
Seafire F.15 |
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Jan. 1950 - Mar. 1950
Mosquito FB.VI |
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Jan. 1950 - Mar. 1950
Martinet T.1 |
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Sep. 1950 - Feb. 1951
Martinet T.1 |
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27, January 1949 - 5.
February 1949 |
HMS Theseus |
Martinet & Sea Fury |
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18. March 1949 - 25 March
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HMS
Implacable |
Martinet & Sea Fury |
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26. Mar. 1950 - 30. Mar.
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HMS
Venngeance |
Martinet T.1, Seafire F.15,
Mosquito FB.VI |
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26. Mar. 1950 - 31. Mar.
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HMS
Implacable |
Martinet T.1, Seafire F.15,
Mosquito FB.VI |
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773 NAS
Home Port Assignments |
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1940 - 1944 |
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RNAS
Bermuda |
3. Jun. 1940 |
25. Apr. 1944 |
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1945 - 1946 |
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RNAS
Lee-on-Solent |
1. Jun 1945 |
29. Mar. 1946 |
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RNAS Brawdy |
29. Mar. 1946 |
30. Sep. 1946 |
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1949 |
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RNAS Lee-on-Solent |
6. Jan. 1949 |
27. Jan.
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North Front, Gibraltar |
5. Feb. 1949 |
18. Mar. 1949 |
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RNAS Lee-on-Solent |
25 Mar. 1949 |
31. Mar. 1949 |
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1950 |
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RNAS Lee-on-Solent |
4. Jan. 1950 |
27. Jan.
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North Front, Gibraltar |
3. Feb. 1950 |
26. Mar. 1950 |
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RNAS Lee-on-Solent |
30. Mar. 1950 |
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RNAS Lee-on-Solent |
1. Sep. 1950 |
14. Sep. 1950 |
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North Front, Gibraltar |
14. Sep. 1950 |
27. Nov. 1950 |
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RNAS Lee-on-Solent |
27. Nov. 1950 |
16. Jan. 1951 |
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North Front, Gibraltar |
16. Jan. 1951 |
1. Mar. 1951 |
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RNAS Lee-on-Solent |
1. Mar. 1951 |
31. Mar. 1951 |
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1940 - 1944 |
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Lt-Cdr H. Wright,
RN |
3. Jun.
1940 |
Sep. 1941 |
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Lt-Cdr G. C. W. Fowler,
RN |
Sep. 1941 |
6. Aug 1943 |
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Lt-Cdr K. W. Beard,
RN |
6. Aug 1943 |
25. Apr. 1944 |
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Lt-Cdr W. P. T. Chrome,
RN |
1. Jun 1945 |
20. Aug. 1945 |
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Lt-Cdr P. Richmond,
RN |
20. Aug. 1945 |
30. Sep. 1946 |
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Lt A. Haslam,
RN |
6. Jan. 1949 |
31. Mar. 1949 |
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Lt R. C. B. Trelawney,
RN |
4. Jan. 1950 |
31. Mar.
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Lt J. F. Smith,
RN |
1. Sep. 1950 |
31. Mar. 1951 |
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History
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773
Naval Air Squadron formed as Fleet Requirements Unit at Bermuda on
3. June 1940.
As the waters around the
Imperial fortress colony of Bermuda (the main base and Royal Naval
Dockyard of the America and West Indies Station) became a working-up
area for U.S. Navy and Royal Canadian Navy vessels, as well as for
lend-lease ex. U.S. Navy vessels of the Royal Navy, preparing to
join the Battle of the Atlantic, Fleet Air Arm target tugs were
based at Royal Naval Air Station Bermuda to assist in training
anti-aircraft gunners afloat or ashore. 773 NAS was equipped with
Blackburn Roc target tugs. These were normally meant to operate from
carrier decks, and had retractable undercarriage. To operate from
RNAS Bermuda, which was only able to handle flyingboats and
floatplanes, they were fitted with floats. They towed targets for
anti-aircraft gunnery practice by Allied vessels working-up at
Bermuda, as well as by a United States Navy anti-aircraft gunnery
training centre operating on shore at Warwick Parish for the
duration of the war. When the United States Army's Kindley Field (built
under a 99 year free lease from the British Government on the
understanding that it would be used jointly by the Royal Air Force
establishment in Bermuda and Fleet Air Arm) became operational in
1943, the floats were removed from the Rocs, which thenceforth
operated from the British end of the airfield as landplanes, being
the first aircraft based there. 773 NAS disbanded on 25. April 1944.
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