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H.M.S. Nabberley, was a Royal Navy, Mobile Naval Operating Air Base (MONAB), at the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) base RAAF Bankstown at Bansktown, New South Wales, Australia. H.M.S. Nabberley was also known as MONAB II and Royal Naval Air Station (RNAS) Bankstown.

Assembled at RNAS Ludham and Royal Navy Air Establishment Risley, Warrington, in October 1944. The duties of HMS Nabberley were changed from that of a MONAB to that of a Receipt and Dispatch Unit shortly after formation causing some administration problems. Due to accommodation issues 600 ratings were based at H.M.S. Gosling, in Warrington, Lancashire. HMS Nabberley commissioned as an independent command on 18 November 1944.