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The Consolidated Model 28, more commonly known as the PBY Catalina (US Navy designation), is a flying boat and amphibious aircraft designed by Consolidated Aircraft in the 1930s and 1940s. In US Army service it was designated the OA-10 , in Canadian service as the Canso and it later received the NATO reporting name Mop . [ 4 ]
As they do on any other sunny day, people packed into the narrow cabin of the bright yellow SS Nautilus, a semi-submersible owned and operated by Catalina Adventure Tours, on Friday to experience ...
Aerial photo of a rendezvous between the British submarine HMS Telemachus and a Catalina of No. 112 Air Sea Rescue Flight RAAF in the Banda Sea, Netherlands East Indies, 23 March 1945. An engineer officer, injured in an accident, was transferred from the submarine to the Catalina by dinghy and flown to Darwin, Australia.
Canada had its own close associations with the PBY, both as a manufacturer and customer. Under an agreement reached between the Canadian and U.S. governments, production lines were laid down in Canada, by Boeing Aircraft of Canada (as the PB2B-1) in Vancouver, and by Canadian Vickers (PBV-1) at the Canadair plant in Cartierville.
Catalina similar to those used by 265 Squadron. On 11 March 1943 the squadron was officially reformed at Mombasa (probably at RAF Port Reitz, now the city's Moi International Airport), again in the anti-submarine role as one of Air Headquarters East Africa's Wing 246's general reconnaissance three squadrons.
The RNZAF's No. 5 Squadron had been based at Suva in Fiji since November 1941, operating antiquated Short Singapore flying boats on anti-submarine patrols. [8] By August 1942, it had been reduced to a flight, operating a pair of Singapores from the newly established RNZAF station at Laucala Bay.
The US Navy’s Latest Submarine Is One of the Most Powerful to Date. Liam Frady. February 4, 2025 at 10:00 AM. Italian Naval submarine ship on her way back from Sea Trial in Augusta, ...
A semi-submarine, taken out of the water. A semi-submarine (semi-sub) is a surface vessel that is not capable of diving, but has accommodation space below the waterline featuring underwater windows. [1] The watercraft is similar to glass-bottom boats, but with deeper draft. Both types of boats are mainly used to provide sight-seeing trips for ...