Boaz Island
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 The old RNAS hangar on Boaz Island | |
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| Location: | 32°18’22"N, 64°51’23"W |
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Boaz Island, formerly known as Gate's Island or Yates Island, is one of the six main islands of Bermuda, and part of a chain of islands in the west of the territory which make up Sandys Parish, lying between the larger Ireland Island and Somerset Island. It is connected to both by bridges.
The east coast of Boaz forms part of the edge of the Great Sound.
Boaz Island was part of the Royal Naval base, which included the HM Dockyard on Ireland Island. From 1939, Boaz Island was used as a Royal Naval Air Station (HMS Malabar).[1] Its primary role was the servicing, repair and replacement of spotter floatplanes and flying boats belonging to naval vessels. Early in the Second World War, with no other units to fill the role, aeroplanes from Boaz Island were used to maintain anti-submarine air patrols, using whatever aircrew were on hand, including pilots from the Bermuda Flying School on Darrell's Island. All that remains of the Fleet Air Arm facility today is a hangar on runway road, and two slips.
Today the island houses a condominium housing complex.[2][3]
References
- ↑ Forces War Records: RN Air Station Boaz Island
- ↑ 'Boaz Island Village condo owners challenged over unpaid fees': Sam Strangeways in The Royal Gazette, 21 January 2014
- ↑ 'Boaz Island crumbles as fees are unpaid': Lisa Simpson in The Royal Gazette, 18 August 2017