No 5 Air Sea Rescue Unit Meikle Ferry
A five page document, with 9 monchrome photographs, providing an overview of Marine Craft Section and Air Sea Rescue units and the craft they operated from the Royal Air Force base at Meikle Ferry, Dornoch Firth, from 1937 to 1946. The base was originally opened in 1937 as the Marine Craft Section, Meikle Ferry, attached to No. 8 Air Training Station, Tain, operating two Armoured Target Boats (ATB), A 595 and A575 providing seaborne bombing targets for both RAF Tain and RAF Evanton. In addition to the ATB the unit operated two Seaplane Tenders Nos 259 and 297, along with two 'dumb dinghys'. Sometime in 1940/1 the section was disbanded and the boats relocated to Invergordon or Alness. The base was reactivated at Meikle Ferry in 1942 as No 5 Air Sea Rescue Unit / No 88 Maintenance Unit. the latter with two docking barges used by the search launches. The photographs include an aerial view of the southern side of the Meikle Ferry crossing of the Dornoch Firth and an annotated photograph of the building and their use during WW2.
This document was written by Donald Smith and remains his intellectual property.
Dimensions: A4