RAF Pembroke Dock

RAF Pembroke Dock, on the Milford Haven waterway in Pembrokeshire, was a Coastal Command flying-boat station from 1930 and grew during the war into the largest flying-boat base in the world, with close to a hundred aircraft on its waters in 1943. Its Short Sunderlands — flown by RAF, Australian and Canadian squadrons such as Nos. 210, 228 and 461 — ranged far out into the Atlantic on the long anti-submarine patrols of the Battle of the Atlantic. The station closed in 1959; two of its great flying-boat hangars survive as listed buildings, and a heritage centre run by the Sunderland Trust tells its story.