Short S.20 Seaplane G-ADHJ ‘Mercury’

Short S.20 Seaplane G-ADHJ ‘Mercury’

Short S.20 seaplane ( G-ADHJ "Mercury") on land with hanger in the background. Several men are working on the port inner engine. On the reverse a newspaper cutting with headline '"Mercury" leaves Southampton for Atlantic flight today'. Describes plan to fly Mayo composite to Ireland from where it would make its trans Atlantic flight. This identifies the scene as Imperial Airways’ base at Southampton on 19 July 1938, the day the Mayo Composite flew to Foynes in Ireland for the commencement of Don Bennett’s world record transatlantic flight on 20/21 July in ‘Mercury’.

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1938-07-19

One b/w photograph

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