3512 x 5288 px | 29,7 x 44,8 cm | 11,7 x 17,6 inches | 300dpi
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RNAS Fleet Air Arm Museum Yeovilton Somerset. England. United Kingdom.
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The Walrus was a small lightweight catapult-launched biplane amphibian warplane designed to be used from large warships. It was used for sea search and rescue, reconnaissance, spotting fall of shot in a sea battle and for enemy submarine attack.. It had a 635 hp pusher prop engine. and 740 were built between 1935 and 1945. Its specs were - wingspan 45.8 ft, length 37.2 ft; weight empty 4, 900 lbs, loaded 7, 220 lbs; speed 135 mph, ceiling 17, 090 ft, range 600 mi; armament, 2 Vickers K guns in nose and dorsal area. It could carry 760 lbs of bombs or depth charges under its wings with a crew of three - pilot and a navigator and radioman who also operated the guns. RCN Walrus on runway at RCN airfield at Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, 1945 Courtesy Shearwater Aviation Museum, Dartmouth Walrus aircraft taking off from airbase Dartmouth, NS Courtesy Shearwater Aviation Museum, Dartmouth They were was used throughout the world during WW2, being carried in eleven RN battleships, two battlescruisers and 36 cruisers. Also in three Australian cruisers and in two New Zealand cruisers, totalling 42 small squadrons. In May 1945, three were given to Canada along with 22 Swordfish when HMS Seaborn, the RN Aircraft Repair Depot in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia , was decommissioned . As an aside, in the fifties a number of these Swordfish, which were such legendary aircraft, were transported, maybe flewn to the fifteen Reserve Naval Division across Canada. None of them are now left and cannot be found. Some were also given to Egypt and also some shipped to Northern Russia. This aircraft, like the Swordfish, was really overtaken by aircraft designby the time the war started , yet proved to be successful; saving many downed air crews, taking part in five enemy submarine sinkings and in other sea operations. In one operation, it flew over a 100 miles out over the South Atlantic from Freetown, Sierra Leone, to go to the assistance of the survivors of sunken merchant ship. It was not used in the Battl
