Document record MAB59743 - INVERNETTIE

Site of a seaplane repair and store base, opened in 1918 to provide repair and storage facilities for the operational seaplane station at Loch Beg (NK05NE0023).

Site of a seaplane repair and store base, opened in 1918 to provide repair and storage facilities for the operational seaplane station at Loch Beg (NK05NE0023). Peterhead was also used for operational flights when the level of the Loch of Strathbeg dropped below a safe depth. The Peterhead base partly 3.6 hectares of re-claimed ground largely made up of granite debris and rubble from the Admiralty yard for the construction of the 'harbour of refuge', at the southern end of Peterhead Bay. An area of foreshore to the north west of the base was included within the boundary of the station. The breakwaters of the harbour provided a large area of sheltered water for seaplane landings. In 1918 the Peterhead base was to comprise one seaplane shed measuring 61 m by 30.5 m, with a workshop in an annex measuring 61 m by 6 m, and stores for parts, fuel and ammunition. The establishment of the base was 77, of whom five were women, to be accommodated in buildings located in a separate area to the north, on the site of a former brickworks (NK14NW0033). It is not clear whether the base was completed before it was abandoned in 1919. Nothing remains of the base.

SMITH, D, 1983, ACTION STATIONS 7, 20 (Bibliographic reference). SAB3237.

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