IMAGE
Two Naval seaplanes parked on the deck of HMS Ark Royal
- Date
- 1915
- Reference
- PAColl-0914-1-30-1
- Description
Two naval seaplanes parked on the deck of HMS Ark Royal. Photographed by an unknown photographer in 1915
Inscriptions: Verso - Short 136. Wight 172.; Taken on board the aerodrome ship whilst at Lemnos. HTB.
The seaplanes are Wight Type A 1 Improved Navyplane, No 172 (left), and Short Type 135, No 136 (right). They are on the deck of the British Navy's first aircraft carrier, HMS Ark Royal, which at the time was at Lemnos. (This photograph also appears in "The Wight Aircraft", Michael H Goodall, Gentry Books, London, p 37)
Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).
Physical Description: Silver gelatin print
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- Paterson, E B :139 photographs relating to World War One experiences of Hugh Townshend Boscawen / Photographs relating to World War One experiences of Hugh Townshend Boscawen
- Format
- 1 b&w original photographic print(s), Photographs, Silver gelatin print
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Two Naval seaplanes parked on the deck of HMS Ark Royal. Paterson, E B :139 photographs relating to World War One experiences of Hugh Townshend Boscawen. Ref: PAColl-0914-1-30-1. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/23106475More information can be found in our terms of use.