Flat io forum1/3/2024 ![]() ![]() In other words, Flat.io lets you compose with friends from around the world. If you like Google Docs and music notation software, you’ll love Flat.io! Flat.io (also referred to as, ‘Flat’) is an awesome tech tool for creating web-based, collaborative music notation. There is a picture in the Muckleburgh Collection in Norfolk which shows the vessel with an RAF launch on a cradle inside the dock instead of a seaplane.This is a guest post by one of our blog writers, Sarah Joncas. ![]() There is also a reference to a "docking barge" at Miekle Ferry (which I think is on the Dornoch Firth) in 1944 after that don't know. So far I have found reference to it at Portland 1928, Sullum Voe 1932, Pembroke Dock 1932-38 and Invergordon 1938. The crew of 19 apparently referred to it as" HMS Flat Iron". ![]() It was towed and then anchored at location. It could lift up to two seaplanes at a time and was designed by Mr JN Narbeth who was Assistant Director of Naval Construction and was intended to allow seaplanes to be maintained at bases where there were no slipways to haul them out. When ballasted down, it could accommodate craft up to 7ft draught. Its tonnage was 1000 tons gross & 400 net. The seaplane docking lighter is not a floating dock in the conventional configuration but is ship shaped with a short forecastle, bridge type accommodation structure and a long low well deck which allowed the aircraft wings clearance - it was a non-powered dumb vessel. Looking through "The Royal Navy in Focus 1920-29" published by Maritime Books there was a photo of a “Seaplane Docking Lighter" 1928 with the caption making the comment that she flies the RAF ensign and reminding that the Admiralty didn’t gain control of the FAA until 1937. From a posting on the World naval Ships Forum ![]()
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