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The commercial harbour is located in the 5 km (3 mi) long and 4 km (2 mi) wide northern indentation, also known as China Bay, on whose western side lies China Bay Airport. Tambalagam Bay is a mostly shallow western indentation of the main bay stretching westwards for 8 km (5 mi). [3]
The naval base in Trincomalee included the airfield in China Bay. It was opened to civilian flights in 1952. [23] All British military airfields/barracks and sites in the country were transferred and taken over by the Ceylonese government in November 1957. [3] [24] RAF China Bay became RCyAF China Bay. [3]
733 Naval Air Squadron (733 NAS) was a Fleet Air Arm (FAA) naval air squadron of the United Kingdom’s Royal Navy (RN). It was active between January 1944 and December 1947, entirely in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), as a Fleet Requirements Unit, based mainly at R.N. Air Section China Bay, which became HMS Bambara, RNAS Trincomalee, China Bay, Ceylon.
According to eye witness Michael Tomlinson (author of The Most Dangerous Moment and RAF Station Intelligence Officer at Ratmalana and later at China Bay in Trincomalee), one Japanese flyer deliberately crashed his plane into one of the giant fuel tanks just north of China Bay aerodrome. The Eastern Fleet return to Trincomalee in late 1942.
China Bay railway station is a railway station in China Bay, near Trincomalee in eastern Sri Lanka. Owned by Sri Lanka Railways , the state-owned railway operator , the station is part of the Trincomalee line which links Trincomalee District with the capital Colombo .
Map of Kiautschou Bay with Tsingtau, 1905. The Kiautschou Bay Leased Territory [a] was a German leased territory in Imperial and Early Republican China from 1898 to 1914. Covering an area of 552 km 2 (213 sq mi), it centered on Kiautschou Bay (Jiaozhou Bay) on the southern coast of the Shandong Peninsula. The administrative center was at ...
The Royal Navy maintained naval installations in Trincomalee and the Royal Air Force (RAF) had established an aerodrome in China Bay, Trincomalee long before the war. After the fall of Singapore the Royal Navy's East Indies Station was moved to Colombo and then to Trincomalee.
When the Royal Ceylon Air Force was formed in 1951, the No 1 Flight was formed with de Havilland DHC-1 Chipmunks to train RCyAF pilots on 1 September 1951 at RAF Negombo.In 1963 the Flying Training School was shifted to SLAF China Bay and was absorbed into the Air Force Academy when it was established in 1976 as the No. 1 Flying Training Wing.