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A BATTLESHIP OF THE SKIES A fine photograph of a Short Sunderland flying boat on patrol over the open sea. Machines of this type patrol the narrow seas around Singapore and are also used extensively by the 'flying boat squadrons at Home. They have a normal range of nearly 2000 miles at more than . 200 miles an hour, and arc heavily armed. —By courtesy of “Flight.”

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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23796, 1 May 1939, Page 4

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A BATTLESHIP OF THE SKIES A fine photograph of a Short Sunderland flying boat on patrol over the open sea. Machines of this type patrol the narrow seas around Singapore and are also used extensively by the 'flying boat squadrons at Home. They have a normal range of nearly 2000 miles at more than . 200 miles an hour, and arc heavily armed. —By courtesy of “Flight.” Otago Daily Times, Issue 23796, 1 May 1939, Page 4

A BATTLESHIP OF THE SKIES A fine photograph of a Short Sunderland flying boat on patrol over the open sea. Machines of this type patrol the narrow seas around Singapore and are also used extensively by the 'flying boat squadrons at Home. They have a normal range of nearly 2000 miles at more than . 200 miles an hour, and arc heavily armed. —By courtesy of “Flight.” Otago Daily Times, Issue 23796, 1 May 1939, Page 4