The main role was coastal reconnaissance which it continued to do until it was disbanded on 15 September 1919 when it was absorbed into 269 Squadron.

[1] The squadron was re-formed on 12 November 1942 at RAF Jui, in Sierra Leone, with Consolidated Catalina IB an American flying boat and amphibious aircraft.

[4] It flew sorties into the mid-Atlantic off West Africa on anti-submarine patrols,[5] sinking a U-boat in January 1943.

[citation needed] The squadron had detachments at RAF Bathurst, in the Gambia, and Fisherman's Lake, in western Liberia.

[4] In July 1943 the squadron moved to Lagos, in Nigeria, to be based at RAF Apapa and at the end of that year it re-equipped with the four-engined Short Sunderland flying boat patrol bomber.