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Golden Hind & some other BOAC boats on Flickr
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Re: Golden Hind & some other BOAC boats on Flickr
by dogsbody » Sat Jan 27, 2018 2:25 am
"What young man could possibly be bored
with a uniform to wear,
a fast aeroplane to fly,
and something to shoot at?"
with a uniform to wear,
a fast aeroplane to fly,
and something to shoot at?"
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Re: Golden Hind & some other BOAC boats on Flickr
by longshot » Sat Feb 10, 2018 12:23 am
Continuing our conversation from Flickr
"Q....Is this definitely G-AFCI Golden Hind? I'm trying to figure out when it was in camouflage...this seems to be before it was fitted with a tail gun turret. Do you have the location/date? A great find anyway!
A....I cannot say for sure which 'G' Class 'boat this is as there is no date or information on the photograph, which comes from the Goodfellow collection with the RAeC Trust. I don't recognise the sheds, but they do not like either Hythe or Hamble."
I'm wondering if it's Belfast (or Rochester?). As far as I know the large Union flags were applied to BOAC boats after Captain James survey trip to Las Palmas in autumn 1940 when the Spanish reportedly mistook the red white blue stripes on BOAC C-class boats for French markings...the G-class boats received tail turrets prior to RAF service (1941) so this photo must have been taken just before it got a turret....... Micky (longshot/A30yoyo)
"Q....Is this definitely G-AFCI Golden Hind? I'm trying to figure out when it was in camouflage...this seems to be before it was fitted with a tail gun turret. Do you have the location/date? A great find anyway!
A....I cannot say for sure which 'G' Class 'boat this is as there is no date or information on the photograph, which comes from the Goodfellow collection with the RAeC Trust. I don't recognise the sheds, but they do not like either Hythe or Hamble."
I'm wondering if it's Belfast (or Rochester?). As far as I know the large Union flags were applied to BOAC boats after Captain James survey trip to Las Palmas in autumn 1940 when the Spanish reportedly mistook the red white blue stripes on BOAC C-class boats for French markings...the G-class boats received tail turrets prior to RAF service (1941) so this photo must have been taken just before it got a turret....... Micky (longshot/A30yoyo)
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Re: Golden Hind & some other BOAC boats on Flickr
by schneiderman » Mon Feb 12, 2018 7:18 pm
Well the roof line does not look like Rochester and I don't have a clue what the Belfast works looked like. What facilities did IAL have when operations moved to Poole?
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Re: Golden Hind & some other BOAC boats on Flickr
by seawings » Tue Feb 13, 2018 7:30 pm
My instant thought was Calshot.......
Don't know why but I just thought it.........
Don't know why but I just thought it.........
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Re: Golden Hind & some other BOAC boats on Flickr
by longshot » Sat Oct 27, 2018 11:06 pm
Ralph...pp141-143 of 'The Seaplane Years' by Tim Mason has text and graphics/photos suggesting that your RAeC photos of the G-class with the big Union Jack might have been Golden Horn at Felixstowe about May 1940 pre-gun turret installation. ....the photo in the book has had the background censored out and Golden Horn has small side roundels and an RAF fin flash and a Union Jack under the hull in addition to the nose side flags. The hangar saw-tooth roof partially matches photos of Felixstowe in the book except the end bay in your photo is much wider (a later extension?)...or were there similar hangars at Helensburgh? . Mick West Photos linked via Flickr because I can't get at my free Photobucket account!
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