It was most recently recommissioned at HMS Seahawk, RNAS Culdrose in June 2013 to fly the BAE Systems Hawk, mainly in the maritime aggressor role, following the disbandment of the Fleet Requirements and Aircraft Direction Unit (FRADU) and operated up until March 2022.

In March 1967, its aircraft were part of the group that bombed and set on fire the supertanker SS Torrey Canyon aground and leaking crude oil on Seven Sisters rocks off Cornwall.

‘B’ Flight embarked in HMS Colossus for Malta and gave training on gyro gunsight tactics[3] to the 11th Carrier Air Group, working up in the Mediterranean Sea prior to their sailing to Ceylon (Sri Lanka) to join the British Pacific Fleet.

Here it continued operating with Supermarine Seafire, but also used Bristol Beaufighter a British multi-role aircraft and a de Havilland Dominie short-haul airliner.

It was split in half to enable 738 Naval Air Squadron to be formed, however it disbanded on 25 August 1952, its remaining Hawker Sea Fury aircraft going to 738 NAS.

Here it was tasked with providing pilots experience in jet aircraft and it received de Havilland Sea Vampire T.22, a two-seat trainer for Royal Navy, and Hawker Sea Hawk, a British single-seat jet day fighter, with the Gloster Meteor and Supermarine Attacker aircraft being withdrawn.

[1] Mid 1959 saw the squadron start to receive Supermarine Scimitar, a single-seat naval strike fighter.

In 1971 the RAF stood up their own operational conversion unit (237 OCU) to take over the training of both their own and the dwindling number of RN aircrews.

[citation needed] In 1967 736 Naval Air Squadron (along with 800 Naval Air Squadron)) used RNAS Brawdy (HMS Goldcrest), as a base to attack and bomb the oil tanker SS Torrey Canyon from,[8] which had struck Pollard's Rock on West end of the Seven Stones between the Cornish mainland and the Isles of Scilly on 18 March, in an attempt to release and burn off its residual cargo of oil.

[citation needed] After the squadron reformed it supported numerous exercises within the UK (including Joint Warrior, which is held in Scotland) and overseas.