Royal Air Force Marine Branch (ASR and MCU) No. 54 Group RAF
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1929–1978 (1978)
Royal Air Force Bridlington, or more simply RAF Bridlington,[1] was a Royal Air Force station located in Bridlington, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, between 1929 and 1978. Several units operated at Bridlington, Air Gunnery Schools, Initial Training Wings, and an Air Sea Rescue launch unit, but the longest occupier, was No. 1104 Marine Craft Unit (MCU). The station consisted of various buildings across the town that were requisitioned for RAF use before and during the Second World War. Outside of this time, the RAF presence was mostly in the harbour area and as it was such a small unit, No. 1104 MCU was looked after (parented in Air Force parlance) by other RAF Stations nearby.
It is known that under his official Air Force title of Aircraftsman Second Class T. E. Shaw, the archaeologist, (former) army officer, diplomat, and writer, T. E. Lawrence worked at RAF Bridlington during the 1930s.
^Jacobs, Peter (2017). The RAF in 100 objects. Stroud: History Press. p. 68. ISBN 978-0-7509-6536-1.
Royal Air Force Bridlington, or more simply RAFBridlington, was a Royal Air Force station located in Bridlington, East Riding of Yorkshire, England,...
Royal Air Force had training schools in the town collectively known as RAFBridlington, with one unit, No. 1104 Marine Craft Unit, continuing until 1980....
Training with ETS Course 314 at RAFBridlington, July 1941 - November 1941". iwm.org.uk. Retrieved 14 March 2019. "RAF Brunton". North East Aviation Research...
south-west of Bridlington, East Riding of Yorkshire. RAF Carnaby opened in March 1944 under the control of No. 4 Group Royal Air Force. Unlike most RAF airfields...
Bridlington School is a secondary school and sixth form located on Bessingby Road (A165), in Bridlington in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. The...
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simply RAF Bempton is a former Royal Air Force station situated at Bempton in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, 6 miles (10 km) north of Bridlington. During...
Immingham Dock, south along the coastline to Skegness, northwards to Bridlington and up to a 100 miles (160 km) out to sea. This overlapped with the Cleethorpes...
Mail. Retrieved 24 February 2019. "New lifeboat and station for Bridlington". Bridlington Free Press. 12 December 2014. ProQuest 1635403514. Leach 2018...
problems, so the Bridlington Lifeboat was launched so that the Flamborough Lifeboat could return for repairs. Unfortunately the Bridlington Lifeboat struck...
Bessingby is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Bridlington, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It lies immediately south-east...
lifeboat with a crushed pelvis and by the time they reached the port of Bridlington, he had died. 8 December 1954 – whilst escorting ships into harbour during...
Bridlington Lifeboat Station is a Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) lifeboat station based in Bridlington, East Riding of Yorkshire, England....
Force Lissett or more simply RAF Lissett is a former Royal Air Force station located 6.1 miles (9.8 km) south west of Bridlington, East Riding of Yorkshire...
RAF crashed into the sea, 30 miles (48 km) away from Flamborough Head. The Filey all-weather boat, alongside the same type of vessel from Bridlington...
the second-highest scoring RAF fighter pilot of the Battle of Britain, behind Pilot Officer Eric Lock of No. 41 Squadron RAF. Lacey was credited with 28...
visited York, Bradford and Bridlington, but no indication of why or what he did there. It emerged that Bohling had logged on to an RAF Bempton website at 7:30am...
(2008). The family moved to Bridlington, East Riding of Yorkshire, where McDowell's father was stationed at the nearby RAF Carnaby. They then moved to...
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