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Ships of the Royal Navy
  • fleet aircraft carriers
  • escort carriers
  • seaplane carriers
  • amphibious assault shipping
  • battlecruisers
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  • pre-dreadnought battleships
  • ironclads
  • bomb vessels
  • breastwork monitors
  • corvettes and sloops
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  • destroyers
  • torpedo boats
  • fireships
  • frigates
  • gun-brigs
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  • mine countermeasure vessels
  • monitors
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  • royal yachts
  • ships of the line
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  • shore establishments
  • hospitals and hospital ships
  • air stations
  • aircraft wings
  • fleets and major commands
  • squadrons and flotillas
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    This is a list of Royal Navy aircraft wings.

    Wing Formed at Formed on Disbanded at Disbanded on Notes
    2nd Naval TBR Wing Unknown 24 January 1944 Unknown Unknown Renamed No. 2 Strike Wing on 10 December 1944[1]
    3rd Naval Fighter Wing RNAS Burscough 25 October 1944 Unknown 9 December 1945 [1]
    4th Naval Fighter Wing RNAS Burscough 25 October 1943 RAF Nutts Corner 25 January 1946 [1]
    5th Naval Fighter Wing RNAS Eglinton December 1943 Unknown 30 November 1945 [1]
    6th Naval Fighter Wing RNAS Burscough February 1944 Unknown 30 June 1945 [1]
    7th Naval Fighter Wing RNAS Eglinton 30 October 1943 Unknown 16 December 1944 [2]
    8th Naval TBR Wing Unknown 25 October 1943 Unknown 3 October 1944 [2]
    9th Naval TBR Wing Unknown 11 February 1944 Unknown 23 October 1944 [2]
    10th Naval Fighter Wing RNAS Eglinton 14 October 1944 Unknown 30 June 1945 [2]
    11th Naval TBR Wing Ulunderpet/Ulundurpet?, India 21 April 1944 Unknown 6 July 1944 [2]
    12th Naval TBR Wing Unknown 24 January 1944 Unknown 28 December 1944 [2]
    15th Naval Fighter Wing RNAS Stretton 8 November 1943 UK 28 July 1945 [2]
    21st Naval TBR Wing RNAS Machrihanish 25 October 1943 Unknown 30 June 1944 [2]
    24th Naval Fighter Wing RNAS Henstridge 25 October 1943 Unknown 30 June 1945 [2]
    30th Naval Fighter Wing RNAS Machrihanish 10 October 1944 Unknown 30 June 1945 [2]
    45th Naval TBR Wing Unknown 25 October 1943 India 21 April 1944 [3]
    47th Naval Fighter Wing RNAS Stretton 17 January 1944 Unknown 30 June 1945 [3]
    52nd Naval TBR Wing Unknown 26 November 1943 Unknown 9 July 1944 [3]

    Aircraft Carrier Groups

    References

    Citations

    1. ^ a b c d e Sturtivant & Ballance 1994, p. 434.
    2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Sturtivant & Ballance 1994, p. 435.
    3. ^ a b c Sturtivant & Ballance 1994, p. 436.
    4. ^ a b c d e f g Sturtivant & Ballance 1994, p. 437.
    5. ^ a b c d e f g Sturtivant & Ballance 1994, p. 438.
    6. ^ a b c Sturtivant & Ballance 1994, p. 439.

    Bibliography

    • Sturtivant, R; Ballance, T (1994). The Squadrons of The Fleet Air Arm. Tonbridge, Kent, UK: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. ISBN 0-85130-223-8.
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