HMS Sarepta

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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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