Killingholme
KILLINGHOLME: Seaplane and flying boat base and airfield
Operated by: Royal Naval Air Service (Briefly United States Navy)
Location: Today within Killingholme docks, roughly 6nm SE of Hull city centre and about 10nm NW of Grimsby town centre
Period of operation: c.1914 until 1919
A MICHAEL T HOLDER GALLERY
Note: The first and second pictures, c.1918, are both of Felixstowe flying boats, published in Forgotten Airfields.
Note: The first two pictures were obtained from the National Museum of the U S Navy. The long view picture of the airfield and hangars was published in Forgotten Airfields.
AERIAL VIEWS FROM 1930
The flying boat base and airfield had long since gone, but, just possibly, these pictures might show the first refinery on the south banks of the Humber estuary? I assume that one of the flying boat slipways, the one to the east, must have been a major advantage for shipping large components to the refinery.
OVERVIEWS
Note: The local area view is from my Google Earth © derived database.
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