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Flying boats, Mechanics Bay, Auckland
Date: between 25 Dec 1937 - 1 Jan 1938
From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper
Reference: 1/4-048844-G
Description: American Airways Sikorsky flying boat 'Samoan Clipper', and Imperial Airways flying boat 'Centaurus', moored off the Pan-American Airways wharf, at Mechanics Bay, Auckland, between 24 December, 1937 and 1 January, 1938. Photographer unidentified. Caption in Evening Post 13/1/1938 "The Samoan Clipper destroyed by fire - Last visit to NZ. - the lost Samoan Clipper (in the foreground)...with the Imperial Airways flying boat Centaurus behind it..." Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative