Leven
LEVEN: Temporary Seaplane Station
Military user: RNAS (Royal Naval Air Service)
Location: Just E of Leven, on the A955, about 8nm NE of Kirkcaldy
Period of operation: 1913 to 1914
NOTES: This location, assembled as a temporary seaplane Station, (or hydroplane as they were then known as), existed for two fairly brief periods in 1913 and 1914. There were hopes by some that it would become permanent. Pretty much the full story is told below.
A MICHAEL T HOLDER GALLERY
Note: Article One was published in The Scotsman on the 21st April 1913. The third item is a photograph published in The Aeroplane magazine on the 25th September 1913. Article Two was published in the Dundee Courier on the 12th July 1913.
Article Three was published in The Scotsman on the 28th July 1913. The Photos Two were published in The Aeroplane on the 20th March 1914. Article Four was published in The Scotsman on the 11th August 1913. Photo Three was published in The Aeroplane on the 9th April 1914.
Article Five was published in the Fife Free Press and East Kirkcaldy Guardian on the 7th March 1914. The article excerpt was published in The Aeroplane on the 12th March 1914.
Article Six was published in the Dundee Courier on the 13th March 1914.
Photo Four was also published in The Aeroplane on the 9th April 1914. Article Seven was published in The Aeroplane on the 19th March 1914. And, Photo Five was also published in The Aeroplane magazine, but on the 23rd April 1914. Article Eight was published in the Dundee Courier on the 20th March 1914.
Article Nine was published in the Dundee Courier on the 25th March 1914. Article Ten was published in The Aeroplane on the 26th March 1914.
Article Eleven was published in the Dundee Courier on the 28th August 1913. Article Twelve was also published in the Dundee Courier, but this time on the 5th September 1913.
Article Thirteen was published in The Aeroplane on the 2nd April 1914.
Article Fourteen was published in the Leven Advertiser & Wemyss Gazette on the 2nd April 1914. Article Fifteen was published in The Aeroplane on the 9th April 1914.
Article Sixteen, published in The Aeroplane on the 16th April 1914. And finally, the Article Seventeen was published in The Aeroplane magazine, but this time on the 30th April 1914.
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This area view is from my Google Earth © derived database. Pushing my neck out a bit, I think that the Short hydroplanes seen above, are probably of the Short Type 74 to 81? Their numbers being displayed not being RNAS serial numbers. Rather interesting to learn that these naval exercises involved the use of wireless communications - presumably using morse code? The development of wireless techniques, air to ground, (or ship of course), and indeed air to air, were being much developed during WW1, including transmissions with speech.
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