Royal Naval Air Service

Royal Naval Air Service: A naval organisation embracing all concerned with naval aircraft, i.e., airships, seaplanes, and land-going aeroplanes.

Headquarters, Sheerness, under Captain Scarlett, R.N.

Seaplane stations at Calshot, Isle of Grain, Felixstowe, Yarmouth, Dundee and Cromarty, and a Naval Flying School (land machines) at Eastchurch, Isle of Sheppey, Kent.

Has a mother ship, the "Ark Royal," building. Controlled by the Air Department of the Admiralty, Whitehall. Director of the Air Department, Captain Murray Sueter, R.N.