LARGE SEAPLANE DAMAGED
CREW EFFECTS SPLENDID SAVE. Australian and N.Z. Gable Aeeociatian. (Received August 31, 5.5 p.m.) . . ' - LONDON, August 80. The world’s largest seaplane, named the Cromarty, which -has been carrying out searet- experiments in the Sally Islands for'the Air 1 Ministry, struck wreckage when rising from the water, causing a hole. The crew donned lifebelts and baled and beached the machine, which had a top-wing with a spread of 108-feet and two 650 horsepower engines.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11304, 1 September 1922, Page 5
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