Seaplane Collection (page 2)

Supermarine Walrus Mark 1 / I
A Royal-Navy 277 Squadron Supermarine Walrus Mark 1 Flying over Fields Date: 1941

Pan American Boeing 314 - Yankee Clipper, USA
Pan American Boeing 314 - Yankee Clipper - USA. IN service 1939-1943 - crashed in Portugal when coming in to dock when the wing hit the sea when turning. Of the 39 people on board, 24 died

Sopwith seaplane early 1900s

Sopwith seaplane

Early seaplane

Hydroplane during WW1

Hydroplane early 1900s

Sopwith 860 Biplane early 1900s Date: circa 1900s

Sir Alan Cobham's De Havilland Type 50 J Seaplane

Felixstowe Navy Seaplane early 1900s

Supermarine Stranraer Flying Boat probably 1930s

WW2 - Supermarine Seaplane
An illustration of a BritishVickers Supermarine Seaplane which won the Schneider trophy for Great Britain in 1931, setting the world's speed record at 407 mph

WW2 - Seaplane Catapulting From HMS Sussex
A photograph of a British WW2 seaplane leaving the catapult of HMS Sussex, a County class heavy cruiser of the Royal Navy. Date: circa 1940s

G-ADHJ - Mercury - Transatlantic Float Seaplane - the upper component of the Short Bros. Mayo Composite Aircraft - launched in mid-air from a Flying Boat (see 13816872). Only one ever built

HMS Pegasus (ex HMS Ark Royal)
Royal Navy - HMS Pegasus (ex HMS Ark Royal) at A Spithead re in 1938. HMS Pegasus was re-named from the 1914 HMS Ark Royal seaplane carrier

Short Brothers Empire flying boat Canopus
Imperial Airways Aircraft, Short Brothers Empire flying boat Canopus Date: 1941

RAF sea plane, WW2
RAF sea plane Date: circa 1941

Fleet Air Arm instructional seaplane, WW2
A Fleet Air Arm instructional seaplane coming ashore after a practice flight Date: circa 1941

Schneider Trophy Preparations
British seaplanes being prepared for the Schneider Trophy competition. This race was held twelve times between 1913 and 1931. Date: 1931

Short Mayo Composite S20 Mercury long-range seaplane, test flight, Rochester, Kent Date: 1938

Blackburn Shark bomber and reconnaissance seaplane Date: 1938

Harry Hawker (1889 - 1921), the pilot and passenger attempt to win the Daily Mail £5000 prize, round Britain. Unfortunately on 27th August the machine fell into to the sea of a height of about

Seaplane about to rise from the water Curtiss JN4 by Charles Howard

British Naval Seaplane - Chanakkale, Dardanelles Peninsula, Turkey. Date: 1923

HMS Hermes, Highflyer-class protected cruiser
Royal Navy - HMS Hermes, a Highflyer-class protected cruiser, before conversion to an experimental seaplane carrier / tender

Bbiplane, seaplane on floats, Weihaiwei, Weihai, China
Vintage c.1920s photograph: aircraft, biplane, seaplane on floats, Weihaiwei, Weihai, China

Amphibious army exercises in East Anglia, 1941
Amphibious army exercises in East Anglia: troops attacking an enemy seaplane with fast motorboats, 1941. Protecting East Anglian waterways from possible enemy landings

Short Empire flying boat Canopus on the Medway, Kent
Short Empire flying boat Canopus (G-ADHL) on the Medway, Kent. It was the first one to be built in the Empire series. Date: circa 1940s

Dornier Do J Wal seaplane, Kupari, Yugoslavia
Dornier Do J Wal seaplane, moored on the beach at Kupari, Yugoslavia. Date: 1930s

Coastal Reconnaissance seaplane, Battleship Nelson
Coastal Reconnaissance seaplane and the stern of the Battleship Nelson, January 1949. 1949

Naval images of our Allies, by Bert Thomas, WW1
Naval images of our Allies, by Bert Thomas, First World War. Showing aircraft, an armoured car, guns, and British, French, Belgian and Russian naval troops. circa 1914

View across the bay at Funchal, Madeira (from the Casino). Date: circa 1940s

HMS Amphibian and HMS Lion, Spithead, July 1912
HMS Amphibian (naval aero-hydrople or seaplane) flying over the battle cruiser HMS Lion at Spithead, July 1912. Date: 1912

Ramsay MacDonald and Benito Mussolini, Ostia, 1933
James Ramsay MacDonald, British Prime Minister, being welcomed to Ostia, Italy, by Benito Mussolini, the Italian dictator, 1933

HMS Pegasus - ex HMS Ark Royal
HMS Pegasus (ex HMS Ark Royal) at A Spithead re in 1938. HMS Pegasus was re-named from the 1914 HMS Ark Royal seaplane carrier, which saw action in WWI and in the 1920s She was re-named in 1934

Aichi AB-3 reconnaissance seaplane, ordered by the Imperial Japanese Navy, for use on the Chinese Navys new warship ordered from the Harima shipyard in Japan

United States Navy - Curtiss 18T-2 A3325 on take-off as a floatplane. After retiring from the 1922 Curtiss Marine Trophy Race with mechanical trouble, the Navy had no urgent need for both 18Ts

Seaplane Date: 1931

The Schneider Trophy 1929 - Calshot Spit, England
Photograph from the Schneider Trophy of 1929 held at Calshot Spit, England. The Coupe dAviation Maritime Jacques Schneider (commonly called the Schneider Trophy or Schneider Prize)

Italian wins speed record 1928
Italian aviator Mario de Bernardi, flying a Macchi seaplane developed for the Schneider Trophy, breaks his own world speed record, raising it to 512 km/h. Date: April 1928

WW1 - A German propaganda view (unlike this image, the crews of all seven aircraft survived the raid!) of the aerial and naval combat at Cuxhaven, a German North Sea Port. During the First World War

Curtiss Nc-1 Seaplane Parked on Water / Beach Date: 1919

Martin YP6M-1 SeaMaster
Us Navy Martin Yp6M-1 Seamaster Jet-Powered Seaplane Bomber General-Arrangement 3-View Line-Drawing Date: 1956

Martin P6M-1 SeaMaster
Us Navy Martin P6M Seamaster Jet-Powered Seaplane Bomber Flying Date: 1950s

Curtiss Model F Biplane Flying-Boat Parked in the Water ?
Curtiss Model F Biplane Flying-Boat Parked in the Water at a Beach in 1914 Date: 1914

Curtiss Model F Biplane Flying-Boat Moving in the Water Date: 1910s

Curtiss America Biplane Flying-Boat Date: 1910s

Short Felixstowe F-5
Royal Air Force RAF Short Felixstowe F-5 after Flight from Portsmouth to Weymouth. the First Pilot F/O Davis Signalling to Hms Ark Royal Behind Date: 1922

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