712 Naval Air Squadron

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History 
15. July 1936 712 NAS formed at RAF Mount Batten, Devon
21. January 1940 712 NAS absorbed into 700 NAS
2. August 1944 712 NAS reformed at RNAS Hatston
23. August 1945 712 NAS disbanded at RNAS Hatston
Planes:
 

 

 

 Jul. 1936 - Jun. 1937
Osprey		      
 

 

 

 Apr. 1937 - Jan 1940
Walrus I		      
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 Aug. 1944 - Aug. 1945
Expeditor		 .    
 

 

 

 Aug. 1944 - Aug. 1945
Dominie I		 .    
 

 

 

 Aug. 1944 - Jan. 1945
Sea Otter I		 .    
 

 

 

 Aug. 1944 - Sep. 1944
Traveller I		 .    
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712 NAS Deployments 
1936 - 1940
         
1944 - 1945
712 NAS was a second-line Squadron and not deployed on a carrier.-
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712 NAS Home Port Assignments
1936 - 1940
RAF Mount Batten, Devon 15. Jul 1936 1. Jan. 1938
RNAS Lee-on-Solen 1. Jan. 1938

21. Jan. 1940
1944 - 1945
RNAS Hatston, Orkney, Scotland

2. Aug. 1944

23. Aug. 1945
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880 NAS Commanding Officers 
1936 - 1940
Flt Lt H. A. Traill, RAF 15. Jul 1936 5. Aug 1936
Flt Lt J. C. Richards, RAF 5. Aug 1936 8. Feb. 1937
Flt Lt O. S. Stevinson, RAF 8. Feb. 1937 3. Apr. 1937
Sq Ldr E. H. Shattock, RAF 3. Apr. 1937 20. Apr. 1939
Sq Ldr R. E. Gunston, RAF 20. Apr. 1939

24. May 1939
Lt-Cdr G. A. Tilney, RN

24. May 1939

21. Jan. 1940
1944 - 1945
Lt (A) J. U. Reid, RNVR

2. Aug. 1944

27. Mar. 1945
Lt (A) R. W. M. Williams, RNZNVR

27. Mar. 1945

23. Aug. 1945
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History 

1936 - 1940
No. 712 (Catapult) Flight formed on 15. July 1936 by renumbering No.407 (Catapult) Flight, for service in ships of the 2nd Cruiser Squadron in the Home Fleet. Equipment was initially Opreys, these being enbarked in HMS Leander, HMS Neptue and HMS Orion, with a shore base at RAF Mount Batten, Devon. With the arrival of Walruses in April 1937, aircaft in these ships became the responsibility of 718 NAS, and No. 712 Flight took over instead the requirement for HMS Glasgow, HMS Newcastle, HMS Sheffield and HMS Southanpton, which all commissioned during 1937.
The shore base was changed to RNAS Lee-on-Solent on 1. Janury 1938, by which time No. 712 (Catapult) Flight had achieved squadron status. At this time HMS Cornwall was added to its charges, but this ship was relinquished when it sailed to join the China Station in March 1939, to be replaced by HMS Cumberland. On the outbreak of war the squadronr's responsibility was changed to the 18th Cruiser Squadron and the Humber Force, and it then all had control of aircraft in HMS Belfast, HMS Edinbugh, HMS Norfolk and HMS Suffolk, at which tine it had 18 Walruss operating fron 9 cruiers.
The squadron reverted to the 2nd Crusier Squadron by the end of the year, but lost its identity when on 21. January 1940 all the catapult squadrons were combined to form 700 NAS

1944 - 1945
0n 2. August 1944, 712 NAS reformed at RNAS Hatston as a communications squadron out of "B" Flight 771 NAS. It operated a miscellany of communications aircraft including Expeditors, Dominies, Sea Otters and Travellers until disbanding at RNAS Hatston on 23. August 1945.

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last update 14. September 2016

written 14. September 2016

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