700 Naval Air Squadron
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700 Naval Air Squadron is a squadron of aircraft in the Royal Navy s Fleet Air Arm.700 NAS was originally formed in January 1940 at RNAS Hatston in Orkney in a plan to centralise the operations of the 700 series "Catapult" flights attached to catapult units and to act a pool and Headquarters for all catapult aircraft embarked on battleships and cruisers - chiefly the Supermarine Walrus flying boat and Fairey Seafox floatplane.On 21 June 1940, a Walrus (P5666) of 700 Squadron on the cruiser HMS Manchester found the German battlecruiser Scharnhorst but HMS Manchester did not engage.Trailing…mehr

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700 Naval Air Squadron is a squadron of aircraft in the Royal Navy s Fleet Air Arm.700 NAS was originally formed in January 1940 at RNAS Hatston in Orkney in a plan to centralise the operations of the 700 series "Catapult" flights attached to catapult units and to act a pool and Headquarters for all catapult aircraft embarked on battleships and cruisers - chiefly the Supermarine Walrus flying boat and Fairey Seafox floatplane.On 21 June 1940, a Walrus (P5666) of 700 Squadron on the cruiser HMS Manchester found the German battlecruiser Scharnhorst but HMS Manchester did not engage.Trailing German capital ships in the lead up to the Battle of the Denmark Strait, Walrus L2184 of 700 NAS from HMS Norfolk was damaged by shellfire from Prinz Eugen in the Denmark Strait on 23 May 1941 while still on its catapult.