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MEMORIALS AND MONUMENTS

ROYAL AIR FORCE MOUNT BATTEN MEMORIAL

Updated:  21 March 2011 

The Royal Air Force Mount Batten Memorial, at Mount Batten, Plymouth, is in the form of a replica propeller from a Sunderland Flying-boat.

Royal Air Force Mount Batten Memorial, Plymstock, Plymouth.

Royal Air Force Mount Batten Memorial,
Plymstock, Plymouth.
© Brian Moseley, Plymouth, 2010.

It commemorates the fact that site was Royal Air Force Mount Batten until after the end of the Second World War.  From the waters nearby the great Sunderland Fly-boats used to take-off to go on convoy protection duties searching for enemy submarines.

The motto "Praedam mari quaero" was that of number 204 squadron RAF, 'I seek my prey in the sea'.

 

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©  Brian Moseley, Plymouth, UK

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