EPW024422 ENGLAND (1928). HM Naval Seaplane Training School Seaplane Sheds, Lee-on-the-Solent, 1928
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Title | [EPW024422] HM Naval Seaplane Training School Seaplane Sheds, Lee-on-the-Solent, 1928 |
Reference | EPW024422 |
Date | September-1928 |
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Place name | LEE-ON-THE-SOLENT |
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District | |
Country | ENGLAND |
Easting / Northing | 455766, 101249 |
Longitude / Latitude | -1.2084571835176, 50.80754432678 |
National Grid Reference | SU558012 |
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believed to be Fairey IIId seaplanes |
Graham Yaxley |
Saturday 13th of December 2014 06:02:22 PM |
This area was redeveloped as part of RAF Lee-on-Solent, later HMS Deadulus |
Graham Yaxley |
Saturday 13th of December 2014 06:00:52 PM |
User Comment Contributions
Now the site of the Hovercraft Museum, and prior to that RNAS Daedalus and Inter Service Hovercraft Unit? The 5 sheds nearest the camera still remain, although the 2 long ones much shorter now. Obviously no sign of Daedalus runways in the above picture. |
@JohnSouthsea |
Saturday 13th of December 2014 05:58:59 PM |
This seplane base was created in 1917 as a substation of seaplane training unit at Calshot which could no be expanded. The Naval Seaplane Training Unit opened on 1 July 1917. on 1 April 1918 Lee-on-Solent was transferred to the newly formed RAF as No 209 Training Depot station. All traing ceased on 1 January 1919. the station reopened when the RAF & Naval Co-operation School was formed, and closed again in December 1919 only to reopen on 1 June 1920. HQ 10 Group moved in from Warsash and the following month the unit became the School of Naval Co-operation & air Navigation. In April 1921 the school became the RAF seaplane Training School until May 1923 when it became the School of Naval Co-operation, which was the title in 1928. [From 1918 until 1939 naval aviation in the UK was part of the RAF as the Fleet Air Arm (FAA)] |
Graham Yaxley |
Saturday 13th of December 2014 05:58:59 PM |
JMB |
Saturday 25th of August 2012 03:40:29 PM |