Sea Plane Collection

Programme cover, Schneider Trophy Contest
Souvenir programme cover, The Schneider Trophy Contest, September 12th 1931, The Royal Aero Club. Showing a seaplane in flight. 1931

Schneider Trophy Poster - Southsea - September 6th and 7th, 1929 - Making History Still - See it all at Southsea

Imperial Airways Poster, four types of plane
Imperial Airways Poster, showing four types of plane, with cutaway drawings of interiors of each class -- Heracles and Hannibal, Scylla, Atalanta, and Scipio. 20th century

Imperial Airways Poster, seaplane Scipio
Imperial Airways Poster, showing a diagrammatic drawing of the seaplane Scipio, one of the new Kent class, for use on the trans-Mediterranean service. 1931

Seaplane carrier pigeon, WW1
A carrier pigeon housed on board a seaplane for the delivery of messages during the First World War. This particular bird delivered a message (no)

Short seaplane Type 184 in flight, WW1
A British Short seaplane Type 184 in flight during the First World War. It was a two-seater reconnaissance, bombing and torpedo-carrying folder seaplane designed by Short Brothers. 1915-1918

The HMS Collingwood and seaplane
The HMS Collingwood with a seaplane flying overhead. A St Vincent Class Dreadnought Battleship, launched in 1908, commissioned in 1910 and scrapped in 1922

HMS Hogue, British armoured cruiser
HMS Vindex, a seaplane carrier of the Royal Navy during the First World War, previously a fast passenger ferry for the Isle of Man Steam Packet

Spitfire with Floats
A sketch of the successful Royal Airforce fighter plane converted for landing on water

FAIREY FLYCATCHER
This is the main fighter used by the British Fleet Air Arm during the 1920s : depicted is the seaplane version, in which floats replace the undercarriage

Seaplane and Naval Ships
A Royal Flying Corps seaplane co-operates with ships of the Royal Navy

Short seaplane Type 184 hovering above the sea, WW1
A British Short seaplane Type 184 hovering above the sea during the First World War. It was a two-seater plane, used for reconnaissance, bombing and torpedo carrying. Date: 1915-1918

Pavilion Gardens, Bognor Regis. The pavilion, a popular entertainment venue in the town erected in 1923, started life as a Seaplane hangar

German seaplane on a beach, WW1
A German seaplane on a beach during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

German Gotha WD7 seaplane, WW1
A German Gotha WD7 seaplane (water biplane), used for reconnaissance work during the First World War. It had two 120 hp Mercedes engines. Date: 1916-1918

HMS Campania, British aircraft carrier, sinking, WW1
HMS Campania, British seaplane tender and aircraft carrier, sinking after hitting other ships (Royal Oak and Glorious) at anchor during a sudden storm in the Firth of Forth, Scotland

Supermarine S6 - Schneider Trophy 1929
The Supermarine S6 which helped Great Britain win the Schneider Trophy in 1929. The Schneider Trophy was a competition for seaplanes held in 1929 off Cowes, Isle of Wight

Pigeon Saves the Day
A broken down seaplane in the North Sea sends out a pigeon carrying an SOS message of help during the First World War

SPAIN. Vigo. Spain. Second Republic (1931-1936)
" SPAIN. Vigo. Spain. Second Republic (1931-1936). Naval base of R�, Vigo. Two seaplane " Dornier" (1st July 1934). SPAIN. Salamanca. Archivo Hist󲩣 o Nacional."

Hydroplane
Early aviation at Landskrona Sweden. Thulin LA from Enoch Thulins Aircraft factory, Landskrona. 1919. Date: 1919

Air ambulance
An air ambulance owned by the Swedish Red Cross at sea. Malmo, 1923. Date: 1923

Sopwith seaplane, Balkan Front, WW1
A Sopwith seaplane about to set off on a flight on the Balkan Front during the First World War. Seen here with the pilot in the cockpit and men wading in the sea around it. Date: 1914-1918

HMS Hermes seaplane carrier, WW1
An aerial view of HMS Hermes, the first experimental seaplane carrier of the Royal Navy, a refitted Highflyer-class cruiser. Sunk in October 1914 by a German U-boat. Date: circa 1914

US Navy NC4 seaplane, transatlantic flight
Some of the crew of the US Navy NC4 seaplane after its transatlantic flight from Newfoundland to Lisbon, Portugal, and then on to Spain, and Plymouth, UK

British seaplane preparing for flight, WW1
A British Royal Navy seaplane preparing for flight during the First World War, with the pilot in the cockpit and men up to their waists in the water. Date: 1914-1918

Sopwith Baby seaplane in flight, WW1
A Sopwith Baby seaplane in flight during the First World War. It was a British single-seater tractor seaplane used by the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) from 1915. Date: 1915-1918

Sopwith Baby seaplane firing rockets, WW1
A Sopwith Baby seaplane in flight during the First World War. It was a British single-seater tractor seaplane used by the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) from 1915

British pilot with messenger pigeon, WW1
A British seaplane pilot in the cockpit, attaching a message to the leg of a messenger pigeon during the First World War. Date: early 1918

A flying boat in Switzerland or Italy

The Dornier Dox seaplane in the Solent

HM torpedo gunboat, Hazard and seaplane. Participated in a Victoria Cross action in Crete in 1898. Dryard Class torpedo gunboat, she sank in 1918 after colliding with the SS Western Australia

The Seaplane Dornier Dox in the Solent with the Majestic behind Date: C. 1929

Kefalonia - French Seaplane on the Quay
A French Seaplane on the Quay near the Aerodrome and Hospital on the Greek Island of Kefalonia

Defence of Egypt WWI
French Naval Nieuport seaplane at Port Said during the defence of Egypt during World War I

Adventures of Rene Cutforth
The Adventures of Rene Cutforth. Artwork for Lilliput magazine by Raymond Sheppard

Muscat harbour, Oman, with seaplane
The harbour at Muscat, capital of Oman, with a landed seaplane. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

Italian Airmail Warehouse
View of an Italian Airmail Warehouse (Aero Espresso Italiana) with a British seaplane. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

Seaplane reporting success of attack on Mudanya
Seaplane, landed alongside HMS Royal Sovereign, reporting the effects of shell fire on Mudanya - July 6th 1920

The Bystander Flying Number
Colourful, graphic front cover design by Lowen for The Bystander Flying Number featuring a seaplane landing near an exotic Mediterranean location

The Spirit of Flight - 2
This watercolour image from H. Seabright is entitled The Joys of Air and Water. It shows a motor-launch picking up an air-pilot from a seaplane

Yankee Clipper seaplane
The 41 ton Yankee Clipper seaplane arriving at Marignane Airport

Off Portland Harbour - Seaplane and Transport ship
A Royal Airforce seaplane and seaplane docking ship off Portland Harbour, Dorset

Torpedoed by a German submarine in the Straits of Dover: H. M.s Hermes, a seaplane carrying ship
Torpedoed by a German submarine in the Straits of Dover: H.M.S Hermes, a seaplane carrying ship

Captured British Plane
A British seaplane, captured by the Red Army at Astrakhan, is loaded onto a river boat. The intervention in Russia is not one of the most glorious pages of British history

Cant Z. 506 Airone
The CANT Z-506 Airone (Heron) is a seaplane built for Ala Littorias Adriatic routes; when war comes it will be adapted as a torpedo bomber

Short Scion Senior
Essentially a half-size version of the Empire class, the Scion is produced in landplane and seaplane versions, as a medium-size passenger carrier

Sopwith Hydroplane
An early type of British seaplane from the company who later created the famous Camel and other fighters

Nieuport Seaplane
An early type of French seaplane from the company who later created a series of very successful military aircraft

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