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Post by tbf25o4 on Mar 4, 2016 15:00:13 GMT 12
Dave,
the SEA visits were a mixture of British Commonwealth Far East reserve exercises with some SEATO ones, but mostly with the Brits. As for the x-Australia transits during delivery will have to research that one as my copies of logbooks are now with the air force museum
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Post by pjw4118 on Mar 5, 2016 16:06:55 GMT 12
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Post by johnnyfalcon on Mar 5, 2016 17:52:20 GMT 12
Great shots! Thank you
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Post by normnz on Mar 6, 2016 21:28:40 GMT 12
Re SEA visits - Aircraft left from Laucala Bay and transited as below example from logbook: 23 April 1960 Laucala Bay to Tarawa (where we had a small base at Bairiki) Tarawa to Kwajalein (stayed with US Navy) Kwajalein to Guam (as above) Guam to Sangley Point (across harbour from Manilla) Some exercises with US Navy then Sangley Point to Seletar (Singapore) Exercised with the RAF until May 18th and set sail for home. Arrived back Laucala Bay May 23rd
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Post by normnz on Mar 6, 2016 21:52:44 GMT 12
As a quick aside the pic of the Sunderland, the Neptune and the Marlyn was taken, if my old memory is correct, over the famous/infamous Corregidor which we visited and is at the entrance to Manilla Harbour
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Post by davidd on Mar 6, 2016 23:24:02 GMT 12
The second of Peter's latest pictures appears to show a pre-war RAF Mk. I, although I hope I am not the first to spot this! However it is still a great shot, and a most magnificent wake too. David D
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Post by pjw4118 on Mar 7, 2016 8:15:06 GMT 12
es David I included that picture not as RNZAF but as an unusual angle and a nice picture
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Post by Dave Homewood on Mar 7, 2016 8:28:53 GMT 12
Thanks for that info Norm, really interesting. I'd forgotten there was an RNZAF base at Tarawa. Were people posted there permanently? What was it like there?
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Post by tbf25o4 on Mar 7, 2016 8:37:13 GMT 12
The forwards operating base at Tarawa was used during the northern patrols from Fiji. Normally two aircraft were deployed and a group of fitters, comms, cooks and admin personnel and medics were carried to Tarawa and based there during the period of deployment. the medics often carried out some treatment of the locals. In the early days, there was a lot of the WWII debris and fortifications to explore.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Mar 7, 2016 8:49:54 GMT 12
Thanks Paul.
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Post by 30sqnatc on Mar 7, 2016 9:00:10 GMT 12
Have just browsed through the 3 pages of this thread, and could not help but notice that the nice scene posted by Peter (pjw4118) on 14th December last year (6th picture down) features an RAF launch (No. 1667) so was probably taken in Singapore during one of 5 Squadron's fairly regular deployments to one of Britain's most far-flung bastions. However definitely one of our aircraft as it carries the trade-mark side-by-side twin aerials. David D A a young boy living in Singapore I recall my father taking me down to the slip at RAF Seletar to see several Sunderlands that were passing through for the last time which if I recall correctly were RNZAF aircraft. Also quite a fleet of RAF fast launches. It would have been 1966 or 1967. Probably got slides of them in storage. Dad have served with RAF Coastal Command in WWII hence the interest.
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Post by furd on Mar 13, 2016 14:57:19 GMT 12
Have just browsed through the 3 pages of this thread, and could not help but notice that the nice scene posted by Peter (pjw4118) on 14th December last year (6th picture down) features an RAF launch (No. 1667) so was probably taken in Singapore during one of 5 Squadron's fairly regular deployments to one of Britain's most far-flung bastions. However definitely one of our aircraft as it carries the trade-mark side-by-side twin aerials. David D A a young boy living in Singapore I recall my father taking me down to the slip at RAF Seletar to see several Sunderlands that were passing through for the last time which if I recall correctly were RNZAF aircraft. Also quite a fleet of RAF fast launches. It would have been 1966 or 1967. Probably got slides of them in storage. Dad have served with RAF Coastal Command in WWII hence the interest. The last RNZAF Sunderland visit to Singapore was in 1965. I was completing a MOCU course late 1964/65 and some of the course members were to crew the aircraft. This did not eventuate which is another story however checking my logbook the course finished on March 18 1965 and the aircraft departed a week or two after that.
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Post by johnnyfalcon on Mar 22, 2016 19:30:04 GMT 12
Regarding the photograph of the Sunderland in Lyttelton Harbour - Is there any way we could date this event, approximately? For example, when did the Sunderlands' ID markings change? I'm curious because one of the men on the tender looks a lot like my Dad
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Post by planewriting on May 26, 2016 18:10:16 GMT 12
On page 1 of this thread there is a photo, two from top of page, of a Sunderland formation with camera looking up at NZ4113. I have seen a better copy of this in which I can see that NZ4105 and NZ4114 are also involved. Can anyone tell me what the occasion was and possibly the other two Sunderlands making up the formation? I have an idea it took place from Laucala Bay, Suva. Thanks
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Post by Ian Warren on May 26, 2016 21:03:15 GMT 12
Be a nice new theme for a new Colour painting, that very well known photo with a USN Marlin, a RAAF Neptune and the RNZAF Sunderland in tow, got get it exciting, that won't be hard to do ... I need a idea
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Post by sallywilson on Aug 16, 2016 21:15:19 GMT 12
Brings back so many memories of my time at Lauthala Bay as a kid - playing in and around the Sunderlands and once flying with Dad when he took one up for a test run
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Post by Peter Lewis on Aug 16, 2016 23:28:01 GMT 12
Such memories are precious. Thanks Sally.
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Post by johnnyfalcon on Aug 17, 2016 7:38:37 GMT 12
Hi Sally, when was that? My Dad was a crew member on the Sunderlands in Laucala Bay early 1960s til the withdrawal from there. I was born there during this posting.
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Post by baz62 on Aug 17, 2016 15:45:33 GMT 12
I was born there during this posting. That explains a lot ha ha ha.
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Dec 13, 2018 15:50:43 GMT 12
Anybody who is a member of the Short Sunderland/Hythe, Sandringham & Seaford/Solent Facebook group, go and take a look at the awesome photograph posted about thirty-minutes ago showing Sunderland NZ4111 being put through its paces at the RNZAF's 21st Anniversary Air Show held at Ohakea on 29th March 1958. It is one of the most spectacular photographs of a Sunderland in the air I have seen. Angle of bank would have to be pretty close to 80°+ and the wing-tip isn't all that far from the ground. Note that is a closed group, so you'll need to apply to join if you wish to view the photo and you aren't a member.
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