Calshot Seaplane Base

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Calshot Seaplane Base was built during World War I by the Henry Boot Company as one of a series of bases for seaplanes to patrol the UK coastline. It is disused.

Its approximate location^[1] was at grid reference SU482025

Contents 1 Aircraft types based here 2 Trivia 3 See also 4 External references

[edit] Aircraft types based here

[edit] Trivia

Henry Royce signed the visitors' book as "F. H. Royce - Mechanic"^[2]

[edit] See also

• Charles Boot
• RNAS Lee-on-Solent (HMS Daedalus)
• List of seaplanes and flying boats - United Kingdom
• Seaplane bases in the United Kingdom

[edit] External references

• A Brief History of the RAF in Lincolnshire
• HMS Daedalus
• Southampton Water and Flying Boats
• The S6B refuelling at Calshot, Hampshire, where the 1931 Schneider Trophy contest took place

Coordinates: 50.82005° N 1.31712° W