Have a look at this

[vic mcclymont]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/newsartic...cades-ago.html
Sorry page has changed since I viewed the website.
Type in the above and on the front page in the search box type in Royal yacht and you will see pictures of Britannia getting built.
Vic

[Richard Quartermaine]

That is good to see Vic. Here are some photos of the Royal Visit to Fiji and a link to my 'home page' with some more memorabilia. Those were exciting times. http://www.queenslandinsuranceoldies.org/royal.html
Richard

[cappy]

remember ist time isaw a flying boat was in sydney harbour 1957 it came and went 2 or 3 times a day remember being amazed at it landing and taking off ...and the deep roar as it built up speed

[Richard Quartermaine]

Cappy, that would have been the QANTAS service from Rose Bay to Lord Howe Island and there was the Tahiti flight once or twice a week via Suva, Apia and Itutaki in the in the Cook Islands. They landed and took of in Laucala bay. The RNZAF had four based at Laucala Bay, Suva a few hundred yards from our house. Margaret tore a strip of them for waking the babies. They pulled them out of service in the late 60s and the four of them took off and did fly pasts when they left. It was a magnificent sight and sound. Here is one moored on the bay.
Richard

[Jim Brady]

I remember a couple of flying boats moored up in Montivideo the story was that they were impounded by the customs for smuggling.
Regards.
jim.B.

[happy daze john in oz]

For a number of years there were a few flyingboats moored in the waters just outside of Southampton docks. Wonder what happened to them?

[John Arton]

Foynes, on the Shannon
3 pubs
2 shops
and a nice little flying boat Museum with a replica section of a sunderland flying boat.
3 berths for meat, cattle and fertiliser or coal ships
Tanker berth for chemicals and petroleum
Great run ashore
Its where the trans Atlantic flying boats used to refuel before setting off for Newfoundland.
Rgds
JA

[Ivan Cloherty]

Went aboard 'Britannia' last year in Leith, apart from the public rooms all the rooms were very small, including the Queen's bedroom, looking forward from the bridge can imagine how nice it would be to con such a sleek vessel.

[Captain Kong]

There is or was a building in Southampton with a BOAC Sea plane in, it used to be on the Southampton to Sydney run.

Brian

[robpage]

http://www.solentskymuseum.org/

It is still there , the boat is a Sandringham , also there is a Spitfire and an S6B