HMS Sarepta

RNAS Portland was an air station of the Royal Navy from 1917.

The site was first built in 1917 as HMS Sarepta within the confines of Portland Harbour as a seaplane base; the aircraft operating from the base's slipways.

In 1959 it became RNAS Portland (HMS Osprey)

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