776 Naval Air Squadron formed as a Fleet Requirements Unit at HMS Daedalus, RNAS Lee-on-Solent, at the start of 1941.

In April 1945, the Woodvale detachment was reabsorbed into the squadron when it relocated there, the airbase now operated by the Admiralty and known as HMS Ringtail II.

776 Naval Air Squadron formed at RNAS Lee-on-Solent (HMS Daedalus), Hampshire, England, on 1 January 1941, as a Fleet Requirements Unit.

[3] It initially operated with three Bristol Blenheim, a twin-engine light bomber, and several Blackburn Roc, a naval turret fighter aircraft, some of which of the latter were detached to R.N.

The personal de Havilland Dominie, a short-haul biplane airliner, of the Commander-in-Chief, Western Approaches, was also on strength at Speke.