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Anniversary Day, seaplane on water, 26 January 1938

from State Library of New South Wales

  • thelochick said:
    What make of seaplane?
  • TVL1970 said:
    This is a Royal Air Force Saunders-Roe A.27 London II flying boat, belonging to No. 203 Squadron. Unfortunately, given the angle of the photo, it's difficult to discern the aircraft's RAF serial number. Here's more: aeropedia.com.au/content/saunders-roe-london/
    [A] further flight by RAF long-range flying boats was made to [Australia] in December 1937, these being a flight of five Saunders Roe Londons of No 203 General Reconnaissance Squadron fitted with a special long-range fuel tank above the hull. In early 1938 these aircraft (Serials K5908, K5912, K6927, K6929 and K6930) were flown to Sydney, NSW for the Sesquicentenary Celebrations. This was part of an overall return flight of 48,279 km (30,000 miles) commencing at Plymouth in the UK, being made via the Middle East, India, Rangoon, Singapore and Batavia in the Dutch East Indies. The flight was commanded by Wing Commander K B Lloyd AFC. The Sydney celebrations took place from 25 January to 7 February 1938. These five aircraft were London IIs with Pegasus X engines providing 787 kw (1,055 hp) for take-off, and differed from other aircraft in having three-blade fixed pitch propellers and long range fuel tanks increasing range to 4,184 km (2,600 miles).[

Sydney from Lavender Bay

from Powerhouse Museum

  • covid convict said:
    trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/63616320# - this pic appeared in the Illustrated Sydney News on 14th March, 1891...but I suspect the pic might have been taken a few years earlier...if you zoom in, over at Circular Quay there looks to be scaffolding around the Customs House...so the James Barnet rebuild (completed ?1887) might still be in progress. The Mort & Co wool store extension looks complete...the extension was built in 1884-86...I can't see the 1886 extension to the Harrison Jones & Devlin wool store (in Loftus St, opposite Customs House)...but that might be because it's obscured...

Gun at Middle Head Port Jackson NSW

from Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons

  • 5 older comments, and then…
  • beachcomber australia said:
    I hoped this was the same gun as in a Phillips Collection (PhM) photo, but it isn't. Gun expert required!
  • Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons said:
    beachcomber australia Not the same gun but a great comparison nonetheless. What interesting contraptions...
  • Vlad Dmitriev said:
    seen & admired in:
  • Doug Richards said:
    I doubt that this gun was at Middle Head, as the Middle Head guns are quie well docume ted. More likely to be at South Head. See www.panoramio.com/photo_explorer#view=photo&position=... note that the way the gun is now mounted at South Head the carriage is back to front.
  • Doug Richards said:
    Other possibility: this gun is a 9in 12 ton RML at Georges Heights (Not 'Middle Head')