Royal Naval Air Service: A naval organisation embracing all concerned with naval aircraft, i.e., airships, seaplanes, and land-going aeroplanes.
Headquarters, Sheerness, under Captain Scarlett, R.N.
Seaplane stations at Calshot, Isle of Grain, Felixstowe, Yarmouth, Dundee and Cromarty, and a Naval Flying School (land machines) at Eastchurch, Isle of Sheppey, Kent.
Has a mother ship, the "Ark Royal," building. Controlled by the Air Department of the Admiralty, Whitehall. Director of the Air Department, Captain Murray Sueter, R.N.[1]
References / notes
- ↑ Various contributors (1914). The War Book-of-Facts. 2nd Edition. A.W. Shaw Company, London p.145.
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