HMS Sheba

{{Short description|Former Royal Navy shore base at Steamer Point (now Tawahi) on the Arabian Peninsula}}

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HMS Sheba also known as HM Naval Base, Aden was a Royal Navy shore base at Steamer Point (now Tawahi) in Aden.{{cite book|author=Jackson, Ashley|title=The British Empire and the Second World War|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VXevAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA275|year=2006|publisher=Hambledon Continuum|location=London|isbn=978-0-8264-4049-5|page=275}} It was closed after South Yemen achieved independence in 1967.{{cite book|author=Van der Bijl, Nick|title=British Military Operations in Aden and Radfan: 100 Years of British Colonial Rule|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZvtsBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA210|year=2014|publisher=Pen and Sword|location=Barnsley|isbn=978-1-78303-291-4|page=210}}

During the Second World War the senior naval administrative authority was the Naval Officer-in-Charge, Aden (1935–46), and the Red Sea Force was active, including against the Italians.

After the 1961 Kuwait crisis Flag Officer, Middle East moved his headquarters to Steamer Point in Aden.{{cite book |last1=Walker |first1=Jonathan |title=Aden Insurgency: The Savage War in Yemen 1962-67 |date=2014 |publisher=Pen and Sword |location=Barnsley, England |isbn=9781783375615 |page=90 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZRpqBgAAQBAJ&q=Flag+Officer%2C+Middle+East+reported+to&pg=PA90 |language=en}} The renamed British Forces Aden, now Middle East Command, also included the Amphibious Warfare Squadron from the same time.{{cite book |title=Middle East Record Volume 2, 1961 |date=1961 |publisher=The Moshe Dayan Center |location=Tel Aviv, Israel |page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_vzZ71Eh5QvMC/page/n112 90] |url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_vzZ71Eh5QvMC }}