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Coastal Command - November 1953

[No 18 Group | No 19 Group | RAF Gibraltar | Maritime HQ | Inactive Stations]

Command HQ - RAF Northwood, Middlesex

 
Unit Location/Address Notes
Coastal Command Communication Flight Bovingdon (MCA)  

No 18 (Reconnaissance) Group

HQ - Pitreavie Castle, Rosyth, Dunfermline

 
Unit Location/Address Notes
RAF Station Aldergrove    
No 120 Sqn RAF Aldergrove Shackleton
No 202 Sqn RAF Aldergrove Hastings
No 1100 Marine Craft Unit Alness  
RAF Station Ballykelly    
No 240/204 Sqn RAF Ballykelly Shackleton
No 269 Sqn RAF Ballykelly Shackleton
No 1108 Marine Craft Unit Blyth  
No 1109 Marine Craft Unit Boston  
No 1104 Marine Craft Unit Bridlington  
C & M Party RAF Castle Archdale Establishment includes Command General Service Training School
No 1106 Marine Craft Unit Drummore  
No 1110 Marine Craft Unit Immingham  
RAF Station Kinloss    
No 236 Operational Conversion Unit RAF Kinloss Shackleton
No 217 Sqn RAF Kinloss Neptune
C & M Party RAF Langford Lodge  
No 18 Group Communication Flt RAF Leuchars Station in Fighter Command
RAF Station Woodhaven   Satellite, Leuchars
RAF Element, Joint Anti-Submarine School Londonderry Shackleton
HMAFV 'Bridlington' Londonderry  
No 1112 Marine Craft Unit Tayport  

 

No 19 (Reconnaissance) Group

HQ - RAF Mount Batten

 
Unit Location/Address Notes
No 1102 Marine Craft Base Unit Falmouth  
No 1103 Marine Craft Unit RAF Felixstowe Station in Fighter Command
No 1101 Marine Craft Base Unit Fowey  
No 1111 Marine Craft Base Unit Lyme Regis  
RAF Station Mount Batten  
Marine Craft Training School RAF Mount Batten  
No 1107 Marine Craft Base Unit Newhaven  
RAF Station Pembroke Dock    
No 201 Sqn RAF Pembroke Dock Sunderland
No 230 Sqn RAF Pembroke Dock Sunderland
Flying Boat Training Sqn RAF Pembroke Dock Sunderland
HMAFV 'Bridport' Plymouth  
No 1105 Marine Craft Unit Porthcawl  
HMAFV 'Adastral' Portsmouth  
No 19 Group Communication Flt Roborough (MCA) Anson/Sea Otter
RAF Station St Eval  
No 42 Sqn RAF St Eval Shackleton
No 206 Sqn RAF St Eval Shackleton
No 220 Sqn RAF St Eval Shackleton
RAF Station St Mawgan  
Air/Sea Warfare Development Unit RAF St Mawgan Shackleton/Sycamore
School of Maritime Reconnaissance RAF St Mawgan Lancaster
Coastal Command Aircraft Preparation and Modification Flight RAF St Mawgan Shackleton
RAF Station Topcliffe    
No 36 Sqn RAF Topcliffe Neptune
No 203 Sqn RAF Topcliffe Neptune
No 210 Sqn RAF Topcliffe Neptune

 

RAF Gibraltar

HQ - Gibraltar

 
Unit Location/Address Notes
RAF Station North Front    
No 224 Sqn RAF North Front Shackleton
No 8 Mobile Oxygen Unit RAF North Front
HQ, Gibraltar RAF Police District RAF North Front

 

Maritime HQ

HQ - Gibraltar

 
Unit Location/Address Notes
RAF Element, Maritime HQ Chatham  

 

Coastal Command, Inactive Stations

 
Inactive Station Parent Station Status
Aberporth Pembroke Dock  
Angle Pembroke Dock  
Bolt Tail (Radar) Mount Batten  
Carew Cheriton Pembroke Dock  
Dallachy Kinloss  
Downderry (Radar) Mount Batten  
Greystones (Radar) Aldergrove  
Kete (Radar) Pembroke Dock  
Kingswear (Radar) Mount Batten  
Maghaberry Aldergrove  
Marks Castle (Radar) St Eval  
Maydown Ballykelly  
Mullaghmore Ballykelly  
Newford (Radar) St Eval  
Pen Olver (Radar) St Eval  
Perranporth St Eval  
Predannock St Eval  
St Angelo Castle Archdale  
Skipton-on-Swale Topcliffe  
Skitten Kinloss  
Tain Kinloss  
Talbenny Pembroke Dock  
Templeton Pembroke Dock  
Wombleton Topcliffe  

Source - SD161 (158th Edition) - November 1953

County names used are those in use at the time

[No 18 Group | No 19 Group | RAF Gibraltar | Maritime HQ | Inactive Stations]

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