We are grateful to the speaker for agreeing at short notice to deliver this talk as Mrs Pam Nanson was unable to give her programmed talk that evening now deferred to 27th January 2014.
Royal Navy Air squadron HMS Ringtail was set up at Burscough in1942. The RNAS was set up in 1914 and was active through WW1 in Egypt and Mesopotamia and had two squadrons on the Western Front. and has been active recently in Afghanistan.
The base was used for training carrier pilots and could ‘accomodate’ 80 planes some of which were used on the Western Approaches for U-Boat detection and attack. A range of plane types were stationed at Ringtail.. For a period post war Ringtail 11 was established based at Woodvale sevicing American planes during the Berlin Airlift
A Fly Past of Swordfish planes took place over the base in the summer of 2013 to celebrate the Battle of the Atlantic Victory.
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