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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 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 ...
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 ...
The A.33 was a four-engined flying-boat with a parasol monospar wing, the wing was supported by two angled N-struts which connected the wing to hull-mounted sponsons. Hull-mounted sponsons were used rather than wingtip floats and were also used as fuel tanks. A Saro Cloud was modified with a monospar wing and sponsons to test the design concepts.
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
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.
The Short S.25 Sandringham is a British civilian flying boat designed and originally produced by Short Brothers.They were produced as conversions of the widely used Short Sunderland, a military flying boat that was commonly used as a maritime patrol aircraft.
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 ...