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  • tigersteve
    SMF Supporters
    • Jan 2018
    • 678
    #1

    Can we identify this one?

    I have a personal interest in HMS Royal Oak ( my great uncle was killed when she was torpedoed in 1939 ) I have tracked this photo down from 1925 with HMS Victory in the background in Portsmouth. Just wondering what the aircraft is !
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    • papa 695
      Moderator
      • May 2011
      • 22769
      #2
      It looks like a British Couldron G2, with floats on.

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        • Airborne01
          SMF Supporters
          • Mar 2021
          • 3934
          • Steve
          • Essex
          #3
          I think so too, my friend has a book of such weird contrivances and it looks very similar.
          Steve

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            • Ian M
              Administrator
              • Dec 2008
              • 18257
              • Ian
              • Falster, Denmark
              #4
              In 1939 The Royal Oak carried a Fairey III F seaplane.

              I saw an almost identical photo to the one you posted, but without the aircraft. How odd. The angle is a bit different so I guess it was taken just after...

              Some excellent photos of the Oak here
              HMS Royal Oak Battleship - Destination's Journey
              https://www.destinationsjourney.com/historical-military-photographs/hms-royal-oak-battleship/
              HMS Royal Oak was a Revenge-class battleship of the Royal Navy. Launched in November 1914. She saw action at Jutland and was sunk in Oct 1939

              Including the one I mentioned above.
              Group builds

              Bismarck

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                • Ancientmariner
                  • Feb 2018
                  • 859
                  #5
                  Victory in the water no less!

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                    • Neil Merryweather
                      SMF Supporters
                      • Dec 2018
                      • 5176
                      • London
                      #6
                      Originally posted by Ancientmariner
                      Victory in the water no less!
                      I knew there was something strange about it....

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