RAF Carew Cheriton
Royal Air Force Carew Cheriton, or more simply RAF Carew Cheriton, is a former Royal Air Force station located near Carew, Pembrokeshire. It was situated north west of Tenby. It covered and more, the same site of the First World War airship station, RNAS Pembroke (aka Milton), which had been decommissioned and sold off by the Admiralty during the Interwar period. It opened in the 1939, for RAF Coastal Command. The station was transferred to RAF Technical Training Command in 1942 and closed in 1945. History Milton Airship Station / RNAS Pembroke The First World War airship station at Milton, RNAS Pembroke, officially opened in August 1915. Out of the airship station Submarine Scout or Sea Scout SS class airship, Sea Scout Zero SSZ class airship and C-Class or Coastals Coastal class airship, all non-rigid airships, operated over the Irish Sea, Bristol Channel and Western Approaches, on anti-submarine patrols. In February 1916, the airship base saw the building of two x corrugated iron airship hangars with windshields, along with two hydrogen storage facilities. Accommodation was a mix of wooden huts, canvas workshops along with tented accommodation. In April 1917 the base began hosting fixed-wing aircraft and Bessonneau hangars were constructed.