HMS Nabbington Mobile Operational Naval Air Base I | |||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
at RAAF Base Nowra, near Nowra, in New South Wales in Australia | |||||||||
Location within New South Wales | |||||||||
Coordinates | 34°56′56″S 150°32′13″E / 34.94889°S 150.53694°E | ||||||||
Type | Mobile Operational Naval Air Base | ||||||||
Site information | |||||||||
Owner | Australian Ministry of Defence | ||||||||
Operator | Royal Navy (1945-1946) | ||||||||
Controlled by | Fleet Air Arm (1945-1946) | ||||||||
Condition | now HMAS Albatross | ||||||||
Site history | |||||||||
In use | 1945 | – 1946 (Fleet Air Arm)||||||||
Fate | MONAB decommissioned and removed | ||||||||
Battles/wars | |||||||||
Garrison information | |||||||||
Garrison | MONAB I | ||||||||
Occupants | Flying units:
Support functions:
| ||||||||
Airfield information | |||||||||
Elevation | 365 feet (111 m) AMSL | ||||||||
| |||||||||
Source: Royal Navy Research Archive[1][2] |
HMS Nabbington, was a Royal Navy (RN), Mobile Operational Naval Air Base (MONAB), that was established at the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) base RAAF Nowra at Nowra, New South Wales, in Australia during the final stages of the Second World War. HMS Nabbington was also known as MONAB I and Royal Naval Air Station Nowra (or RNAS Nowra).