ATLANTIC FLYING BOATS
FIRST TRIP OF THE CARIBOU WEEKLY SERVICE TILL END OF SEPTEMBER (British Official Wireless.) P Press Association-By telegraph—Copyright RUGBY, August 1. The Caribou, one of the flying boat« specially built for the North Atlantia air mail service, will make its firstj flight to Botwood. Newfoundland, Mon 4 treal, and New York on Saturday. Th* Cabot, which is not quite ready fop service, will carry mails across tha North Atlantic the following Saturday. A weekly service will be continued until the end of September. TSvo Harrow bombers left for Foynes, Ireland, yesterday. They have been converted into tankers and will refuel North Atlantic flying boats in mid-air. Two other tankers are already at Botwood ; where flying boats will be refuelled for the return journeys*
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Evening Star, Issue 23335, 3 August 1939, Page 11
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