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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.
Short S23 "C" Class or "Empire" flying boat A PBM Mariner takes off in 1942 Dornier X in 1932. A flying boat is a type of seaplane with a hull, allowing it to land on water. [1] It differs from a floatplane in having a fuselage that is purpose-designed for flotation, while floatplanes rely on fuselage-mounted floats for buoyancy.
The Air Ministry also ordered the Short Sunderland flying boat as well, with which the S.26 would share numerous design features. [ 6 ] On 17 June 1939, G-AFCI "Golden Hind" , the first of the S.26s, was launched from Shorts' No.3 Shop, being the largest flying boat to ever emerge from the facility at that time. [ 6 ]
A Sunderland Mk III parked up at Hobsonville, December 1944. One Sunderland, NZ4103, was converted for civilian operations in January 1946 and soon afterwards, two of the others were used for training of Tasman Empire Airways Limited (TEAL) flight crew, preparing them for the airline's newly acquired Short Sandringham flying boats ...
Short S.23 Empire Flying Boat (1936) Short S.25 Sunderland (1937) Short S.25 Sandringham (a post-war derivation of the Sunderland) Short S.26 G-Class (1939) Short S.27 Civet - project - not built (1936) Short S.30 Empire Flying Boat (1938) Short S.31 (Half-scale Stirling) (1938) Short S.32; Short S.29 Stirling (1939) Bristol Bombay (1939 ...
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
No. 40 Squadron also undertook air sea rescue duties on several occasions. On 20 March 1945 a Sunderland located the survivors of a crashed C-47 and dropped them a dinghy. The Sunderland rediscovered the survivors the next day after contact was lost with them overnight, and maintained position over the dinghy until Allied naval vessels reached ...
It was a flying-boat squadron, flying Cansos and Short Sunderlands to patrol the North Atlantic for German U-boats. They were redesignated a Transport Squadron in June 1945, and disbanded in September 1945. [2] The squadron was reformed at RCAF Station Uplands in January 1953 as 422 Fighter Squadron.