HMS Nabsford

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).

HMS Nabsford Transportable Aircraft Maintenance Yard I
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
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 (1945)–1946 (1946) (Fleet Air Arm)
Battles/wars	World War II Pacific War
Garrison information
Garrison	TAMY I
Occupants	Mobile Repair (MR) No. 3 Mobile, Storage & Reserve (MSR) No. 7 Mobile, Storage & Reserve (MSR) No. 8
Airfield information
Elevation	50 feet (15 m) AMSL
Runways Direction Length and surface 00/18 1,878 yards (1,717 m) grass 04/22 2,230 yards (2,039 m) grass 10/28 2,000 yards (1,829 m) grass
Source: Royal Navy Research Archive

History

Transportable Aircraft Maintenance Yard No. I (TAMY I) was assembled in the United Kingdom at Royal Naval Air Station (RNAS) Ludham (HMS Flycatcher), Norfolk and Royal Naval Aircraft Training Establishment (RNATE) Risley (HMS Gosling), Lancashire, beginning on 4 December 1944. On 1 February 1945, TAMY I was officially commissioned as a RN Air Maintenance Yard, as HMS Nabsford, with Commander B.J.L. Rogers-Tillstone, RN, serving as the commanding officer.

Commanding officers

List of commanding officers of HMS Nabsford with date of appointment:

• Commander B.J.L. Rogers-Tillstone, RN, from 1 February 1945 (Captain from 1 July 1945)

Units based at HMS Nabsford

List of units associated with TAMY I, in support of an Aircraft Maintenance Yard:

Function

• Aircraft Maintenance Yard

Aviation support components

• Mobile Repair (MR) No. 3
• Mobile, Storage & Reserve (MSR) No. 7
• Mobile, Storage & Reserve (MSR) No. 8

Aircraft type supported

• 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

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.
• 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.
• 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.

References

Bibliography

• 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.