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 Ireland RAF Catfirth, Shetland Islands (1917-1919) Cromarty, Ross & 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 Tresco, Isles of Scilly Sullom Voe, Shetland 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. .