Greenock, Flying Boat Maintenance Base
Seaplane Base (20th Century)
Site Name Greenock, Flying Boat Maintenance Base
Classification Seaplane Base (20th Century)
Canmore ID 94161
Site Number NS27NE 47
NGR NS 2795 7658
NGR Description Centred NS 2795 7658
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/94161
- Council Inverclyde
- Parish Greenock
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Inverclyde
- Former County Renfrewshire
NS27NE 47 centred 2795 7658
Not to be confused with flying boat and seaplane base centred at NS 2527 7766, for which see NS27NE 398.
Greenock RAF station owed its beginnings to the pre-war licensed seaplane base. A flying boat maintainance base was established officially at Greenock on October 10 1940.
The station suffered from lack of accommodation for personnel and there was considerable local opposition to the requisitioning of billets. An ex-servicemens' club and Greenock Social Club were taken over and it was not until September 1942 that a hutted camp was completed at Darroch Park.
The last aircraft left Greenock during July 1945 and a few weeks later the base reverted to Care and Maintainance Command. Civil flying boats visited the berths during the early 1950s.
D J Smith 1983.
This site has been noted by Mr J Guy in the Strathclyde volume.
J Guy 2001; NMRS MS 810/11, Vol.1, 85-6; Airfield Review Extra No.89, December 2000
