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The Short S.25 Sunderland is a British flying boat patrol bomber, developed and constructed by Short Brothers for the Royal Air Force (RAF). The aircraft took its service name from the town (latterly, city) and port of Sunderland in North East England.
The Dunbeath air crash was the crash of a Short S.25 Sunderland Mk. III in the Scottish Highlands , on a headland known as Eagle's Rock ( Scottish Gaelic : Creag na h-Iolaire ) near Dunbeath , Caithness , on 25 August 1942.
On 15 October NJ277 a Short Sunderland GR.5 of No. 230 Squadron RAF crashed into a hill in bad visibility near Tuas, Johore, Malaya., 22 killed. [1] On 19 October BZ928 a Consolidated Liberator B.3 of No. 144 Maintenance Unit crashed five miles south of Maison Blanche, French Algeria following engine failure and stall, 15 killed. [1]
In 1951, the New Zealand government purchased 16 Short Sunderland MR5 [Note 1] flying boats as part of its first major postwar purchase of aircraft for the RNZAF. British-sourced aircraft, rather than American, was preferred as New Zealand's defence policy was tied into that of the United Kingdom and compatibility with the RAF was easier to ...
In July 1943 the squadron moved to Lagos, in Nigeria, to be based at RAF Apapa and at the end of that year it re-equipped with the four-engined Short Sunderland flying boat patrol bomber. The squadron operated detachments at RAF Jui, Abidjan and Libreville. No. 270 Squadron was disbanded, after the war in the Atlantic had ended, on 30 June 1945 ...
The film, distributed by RKO, dramatised the work of RAF Coastal Command. Coastal Command is a documentary-style account of the Short Sunderland and Consolidated PBY Catalina flying boats during the Battle of the Atlantic. The film includes real footage of attacks on a major enemy ship by Hudson and Beaufort bombers based in Iceland.
A No. 205 Squadron RAF Short Sunderland at the ramp of RAF Seletar, prior to being replaced by the Avro Shackleton. No. 205 Squadron continued Catalina operations from its base at Koggala until 1949, when it was re-equipped with Sunderland Vs and returned to Seletar , Singapore.
The squadron was re-formed at RAF Pembroke Dock on 16 January 1941 from part of 210 Squadron, initially with three Short Sunderland flying boats. Moved to Freetown, Sierra Leone, on 17 March 1941; Moved to Gambia in March 1943, with detachments to Sierra Leone, Dakar and Liberia; Disbanded on 30 June 1945