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North Killingholme Haven is a water outlet on the south bank of the Humber estuary in the civil parish of North Killingholme, to the northwest of the Port of Immingham. The area was used at the beginning of the 20th century for clay extraction with a jetty transhipping clay to Hull; in 1912 construction of a jetty for the Admiralty was consented, for fuel oil shipment. During the First World War a large seaplane facility was operated, known as ''RNAS Killingholme''. In the 1990s a Simon Group established a Roll on-Roll off river terminal at the Haven, known as ''Humber Sea Terminal''; the terminal was expanded to six berths through the 1990s and 2000s. ==History== At the end of the 19th century North Killingholme Haven was used as a drainage point for networks of drainage canals in the fields in the North Killingholme area - the outfall of the waterway onto the Humber was sluiced. There was a single dwelling at the outfall - the ''New Inn''.〔Ordnance Survey, 1:2500. 1888〕 Between 1909 and 1913 Earles Cement works in Wilmington was supplied with clay from pits at North Killingholme, shipped by barge. Clay dug by hand, and transported by horse, later steam winch and then narrow gauge locomotive to a jetty at the mouth of Killingholme Haven. The disused clay pits are since flooded and now form a saline lagoon habitat, with some scarce birds and invertebrates. Construction and extension of a pier at the haven was consented by the North Killingholme (Admiralty Pier) Act of 1912; The Admiralty's jetty was to be long by wide with a T shaped head. The jetty was receiving oil by the mid 1910s. An act of 1931, the North Killingholme Admiralty Pier Act (1931) allowed the extension of the existing pier's head, replacing two sunken ships which had been used as dolphins at the head of the pier. The station soon became an imnportant refuelling point for the Royal Navy. The oil storage site was served by the Killingholme Admiralty Platform station from 1930 to 1963. Another act of 1912, the "North Killingholme Pier Act" sanctioned a commercial pier to be constructed by the Yorkshire Transport Company. The company's jetty was to be west of the Admiralty's jetty, , with a westward "L" arm, long by wide,〔 intended for shipment of coal from collieries accessible from the River Ouse. (unbuilt) Adjacent to the Admiralty oil depot an seaplane station was opened in August 1914. Originally called ''RNAS Immingham'' it was renamed as ''RNAS Killingholme''. By late 1914 Facilities at the site included a hangar and four seaplane hangars, as well as a slipway for the seaplanes. Facilities were increased during the First World War, including larger hangars and further slipways- with staff levels reaching 900 operating over 100 airplanes, one of the main seaplane bases in the UK. The facility was disbanded after the end of the war- some of the hangars were used to construct a bus depot in Grimsby (Victoria Street). The riverside at and around North Killingholme Haven has been identified as a viable expansion point for further port facilities on the south bank of the Humber - a £80 million port was proposed in the 1980s but not proceeded with - a report by Coopers and Lybrand in the same period identified demand for both Roll-on/Roll-off and containerised handling facilities in the area. Later in the 1990s Ro-Ro facilities were established by Simon Group (see § Humber Sea Terminal ) The haven is currently (2015) used by dredging contractors ''Humber Work Boats Ltd.''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「North Killingholme Haven」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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