RAF Hamworthy

RAF Hamworthy RAF Poole HMS Turtle
Poole Harbour, Dorset, United Kingdom
RAF Hamworthy RAF Hamworthy, shown within Dorset
Coordinates	50°42′20″N 001°57′30″W / 50.70556°N 1.95833°W / 50.70556; -1.95833
Type	Military Seaplane Base
Site history
In use	1939-1948
Battles/wars	European Theatre of World War II
Garrison information
Garrison	RAF Coastal Command
Occupants	No.19 Group Coastal Command, Royal Navy, BOAC

Royal Air Force Hamworthy or more simply RAF Hamworthy is a former Royal Air Force Coastal Command seaplane base at Poole Harbour in Dorset, England which was operational between 1939 and 1948. During the Second World War, it was used by the Royal Air Force, the Royal Navy and BOAC.

RAF units and aircraft

Unit	Dates	Aircraft	Variant	Notes
No. 210 Squadron RAF	1943	Consolidated PBY Catalina	IB	Detachments to Gibraltar.^[1]
No. 461 Squadron RAAF	1942-1943	Short Sunderland	II and III	^[2]

Jefford MBE, Wg Cdr C G (1988). RAF Squadrons. A comprehensive record of the movement and equipment of all RAF squadrons and their antecedents since 1912. Shrewsbury: Airlife. ISBN 1-85310-053-6.

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