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tramontana View Drop Down
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Points: 418 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote tramontana Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 30 May 2007 at 7:13pm
Having looked at the photo I would agree with Donald it is an Airways s.t. rather than R.A.F. that doesn't decry the fact that you are saving a lovely boat, power to your elbow
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you just need a sunderland flying boat now!!
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An Empire flying boat, all you want to know about them here;

http://www.users.waitrose.com/~mbcass/Flying%20Empires.pdf

These guys would probably love to hear from you Don;

 
I saved this from the original ad for your boat;
 
 32' Seaplane Tender. Cruised, lived on and loved for the past 4 years. Built in 1938 by British Powerboat Company, Hythe for Imperial Airways. Designed by Hubert Scott-Paine (former world-speed record holder) and T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia). Double diagonal planing teak hull, based on scaled-                                 
 
 
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Thanks Christian,
My little 'orphan' boat probably isn't an Imperial Airways chaft either!!

By the way, I didn't get the photo of 2772E from you, I found it at
   www.geocities.com/aj_p_joyce/2772_brighton1957.jpg

Cheers


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Only a number, not even a name. How shall posterity hear of thy fame?
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