This may be a little late, however when I read about arrested shore based landings I thought I would post something for those who may be interested in the future.
Many year ago I used to fly into an RAF Airfield called 'RAF Honnington' near Thetford in Norfolk. It sticks in my mind because it is the only time I have had a clearance to land, appended with, "Caution - Land at your own digression between the arrestor wires". Yes they had arrestor wires across both ends of the runway so landing was a little bit of a precise positioning exercise which I understand sometimes was a 'work stopping distraction' for those on the ground. For info the last time I looked I could still make out the wire positions at RAF Honnington on Google Earth.
I worked for a while at RAF Thorney Island and only knew it as such. The nearest RNAS Airfields I knew to have existed nearby were RNAS Ford (HMS Peregrine) now a prison although runways still show on Google Earth, 14.4 Miles east
RNAS Lee-on-Solent (HMS Daedalus also at one time HMS Ariel )
http://www.fleetairarmarchive.net/Daedalus/History.html 19.8 miles west. Just to the east of Lee-on-Solent used to be RNAS/RAF? HMS Siskin, also known as 'Fort Grange' open from c. WWI until closed in 1954 although the website
http://daveg4otu.tripod.com/airfields/gos.html will give details with runways.
I am surprised that no one seems to have made a definitive model of Lee-on-Solent, as it probably was and still is unique in being the only seaplane base left having a slipway extending across the main coast road from the land base to the sea, complete with special large red traffic lights when in use. The last time was only a few years ago when I had to stop while a twin Otter amphibian crossed the road. Lee also had another set of traffic light on the road at the threshold of a runway as more than once an aircraft had failed to rotate gone though the fence and ended up in the sea. So a pretty interesting place soon to disappear under overspill housing leaving perhaps a small coastguard helo pad with short police islander strip.
Since Hampshire Constabulary took over management of Lee they have decided not to share it with general aviation (citing Security as the reason, although the MOD landlord enforces pass access, interesting that no sharing makes selling for housing easier). The site also houses the Hovercraft museum. Lee Flying Association at their website
http://www.eghf.co.uk/ (What fun! They have a steerable camera in Hanger B, or am I just easily pleased now). Lists the present GA and leisure users who are now on a tenuous 'present users may return' basis, at the forelock touching behest of (servants of the public) Hampshire Police. Incidentally for avid simulator fans who demand accuracy, if you get an Islander you may (allegedly) be totally accurate if you launch for such things as bicycle and fish theft!
If anyone does decide to remodel Lee, the ILS was on runway 23/(05) with an escape route across the southern boundary and public road at whatever height cleared the fence (where the second set of big red traffic lights will have already, hopefully have stopped the road traffic for you), then out over the sea.
These airfields seem to have had quite a few crashes too -
http://daveg4otu.tripod.com/hancrash.html