This article lists both active and historic seaplane bases in the United Kingdom, many of which were either used for, or planned to be used for, the defence of the UK.
A seaplane base may be anything from a stretch of water where seaplanes were based to a full installation, either floating (powered or unpowered) or shore based, where seaplanes were serviced. In the UK these are presumed to be coastal.
Active seaplane bases Glasgow Seaplane Terminal, Glasgow Oban Bay, Oban Loch Lomond Tobermory, Isle of Mull Enniskillen
Proposed seaplane base Royal Albert Docks, London City Airport.
Former bases RAF Alness, Alness, Ross and Cromarty Bembridge Harbour, Isle of Wight (1915-1919) Brough Aerodrome, East Riding of Yorkshire RNAS Calshot/RAF Calshot, Hampshire RAF Castle Archdale, Lough Erne, Northern IrelandLondon 2003, pp. 288–290. RAF Catfirth, Shetland Islands (1917-1919) Cromarty, Ross and Cromarty (1913-1915) RNAS Donibristle, Dalgety Bay, Fife RNAS Dundee (HMS Condor II), Dundee, Angus RNAS Felixstowe, Suffolk RAF Greenock, Greenock, Inverclyde RNAS Hickling Broad, Norfolk RNAS Hornsea Mere, East Yorkshire RAF Houton, Orkney RNAS Kingsnorth, Kent RNAS Lawrenny Ferry, Pembrokeshire RNAS Lee-on-Solent (HMS Daedalus), Hampshire RAF Mount Batten, Plymouth, Devon (was RNAS Cattewater) Newhaven Seaplane Base, Tide Mills, east of Newhaven Harbour, Sussex RAF Pembroke Dock, Pembrokeshire RNAS Portland (HMS Osprey), Portland, Dorset RNAS South Denes, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk Sullom Voe, Shetland RNAS Tresco, Isles of Scilly Westgate-on-Sea, Kent RAF Woodhaven, Woodhaven, Fife
See also List of air stations of the Royal Navy RAF Coastal Command Royal Air Force Royal Flying Corps Royal Naval Air Service Seaplane tender
References
London, Peter. British Flying Boats. Stroud, UK:Sutton Publishing, 2003. .
External links HMS Osprey