Personnel for Transportable Aircraft Maintenance Yard No. 1 (TAMY 1) began to assemble at Ludham from December 4th 1944; the unit began to assemble later in that month. Since MONAB IV and the personnel of MONAB III still remained at RNAS Ludham, it was decided that there would not be adequate room to house the considerably larger elements of a Transportable Aircraft Maintenance Yard. A decision was made to split the formation, in the same manner as had been done with MONAB II; the HQ component was to form at Ludham and the technical components at HMS GOSLING in Lancashire. Whilst at H.M.S. GOSLING the principal activities of TAMY I personnel were those of kitting up with battledress and tropical clothing, and the mustering and making good of personal tool kits. Embarkation leave was given to all hands, both at Ludham and Gosling, during the formation period; this leave had to be balanced against the requirement for personnel from TAMY I to assist the Mobile Naval Airfield Organisation Headquarters with Station, Pay, Victualling, and Galley duties. TAMY I was commissioned as an independent command bearing the ships name H.M.S. NABSFORD, on February 1st 1945, Commander B.J.L. ROGERS-TILLSTONE in command.

The personnel & equipment of both MONAB V & TAMY I departed by road and rail for Gladstone docks, Liverpool, on February 16th, for passage to Australia. TAMY I was destined for Archerfield, Brisbane, Queensland, a joint civil/RAAF airfield. The main party of TAMY I, (a total off 23 officers & 1,191 ratings), sailed for Australia on board the S.S. Stirling Castle, departing on February 18th, in company with personnel of MONAB V. A second, retard, party comprising of 8 Officers and 91 ratings sailed on March 10th on the S.S. Empress of Scotland, in company with the personnel of M.R. 1 bound to join MONAB V at Jervis Bay, New South Wales. The first echelon of stores & equipment sailed from Liverpool on board the S.S. Empire Waimana, departing on February 20th, with the second echelon of stores & equipment sailing from Liverpool on board S.S. Hororata on March 1st.
 

An advance party of TAMY I comprising of 4 officers and 28 technical ratings was sent out from UK on earlier transport, arriving in Brisbane at the beginning of February 1945. This party, together with 80 hands loaned from H.M.S. GOLDEN HIND, the RN Barracks in Sydney and supplemented by the addition of No.1 S.M.P. were accommodated at Rocklea Camp. This was to be the accommodation site for TAMY I.

Known as the ‘Corsair technical party’ this advance party was under the control of H.M.S. Furneaux, the local naval base, and were tasked with erecting 16 Corsair IV aircraft at Kerry Road, Archerfield; 12 of the aircraft being almost completed by the time the main body of TAMY I arrived on March 27th. This was an extremely slow rate of progress; however this work was started without any equipment or stores, all of which had to be acquired or borrowed from the Department Of Aircraft Production, the Royal Australian Air Force and other local sources. Work was farther hampered in early March when many of the ratings had to be taken off aircraft erection duties in order to prepare Rocklea Camp, in advance of the main party’s arrival at the end of the month. TAMY I inherited facilities formerly used by US forces in the Brisbane area, the US presence having been withdrawn after the liberation of the Philippines; the principle facilities left by the Americans were those at Kerry Road and Rocklea Camp. The men of the advance party enjoyed relative luxury in their accommodations at the beginning, the huts at Rocklea Camp having single beds and fitted wardrobes. These were soon to go; an alteration to hundreds of fitted wardrobes was to carried out to enable two-tier beds to be installed replacing the single ones. Other tasks which were attempted by this small party were the transporting and rigging of extra beds, bedding and other furniture, rigging up of offices, and the general cleaning of all quarters and provisioning ships stores. The S.S. Stirling Castle arrived at Brisbane, on March 27th, after unloading the first echelon of TAMY I, the ship then continued on to Sydney to off load MONAB V.

TAMY I was transported to Archerfield airport, on the outskirts of Brisbane, the same day where it commissioned as HMS NABSFORD, R.N. Aircraft Maintenance Yard Archerfield

Rocklea Camp was the administration and accommodation base of TAMY 1, and later MONAB VII, aircraft operations were conducted at Archerfield airport.

Rocklea Camp was the administration and accommodation base of TAMY 1, & later MONAB VII, aircraft operations were conducted at Archerfield airport.

The 'Air Yard' comprised:

Airfield facilities at Archerfield,

Erection, inspection & repair, air radio and air gunnery workshops at Kerry Road, Archerfield,

Engine & ancillary workshops at Rocklea Factory,

Workshops for the reduction of airframes to spares and produce at Benedict Stone Works,
Airframe parts and engine store at Runcorn.

Accommodation at Rocklea Camp.