Stornoway Harbour
STORNOWAY HARBOUR: Seaplane / flying boat Alighting Area
The first proof of this harbour being used by aircraft, was in June 1930, when three RAF flying boats used the location as a jumping off point in the UK for a flight to Iceland.
A MICHAEL T HOLDER GALLERY
This article, in two parts to make it easier to read, was published in the Aberdeen Press and Journal on the 23rd June 1930.
Note: This article, again in two parts, was published in The Scotsman on the 10th September 1932.
Note: These first two newspaper articles were published in (1) the Aberdeen Press and Journal on the 6th May 1935, and (2) on the 5th August 1935. The third in The Scotsman on the 12th May 1937.
This area view is from my Google Earth © derived database
Location: S of Stornoway town on the Isle of Lewis
NOTES: Shown on Admiralty chart, No. 1919, in the 1930s.
Another flying boat to alight here was G-ABXW, the Saunders Roe A19 Cloud employed on an exploratory flight of the region on the 17th September 1935 when it was elected to be a lunch stop. See MALLAIG (INVERNESS-SHIRE) for extra info.
The question being, was a regular service being operated between 1932 and 1937, when West of Scotland Air Services began a regular service from Greenock?
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