Facts About Durban - Flying Boat Control Tower

Flying Boats in Durban

The original Flying Boat page was getting pretty big so I have put the material on the the civilian and military flying boats onto different pages.

Imperial Airways / BOAC Passenger & Mail Flights to Durban

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Other pages of interest

Captain Mollard's page

Check out the Poole Flying Boat Celebration site for more on flying boats.
In later years, Poole was the BOAC flying boat base in the UK.
There are even links to some great videos of Canopus and Cambria.

Added 1 November 2007: Showing the first Imperial Airways flying boat, Canopus, under construction. The picture shows how large the craft were.

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Pic courtesy Gerald Buttigieg.

Military Flying Boats in Durban

Other pages of interest:

The Catalinas of Lake St Lucia - by Jeff Gaisford
Catalina H & Richard Cork
The Sunderlands of Lake Umsingazi - by Jeff Gaisford
Lebbeus Laybutt's 35 SQN Photo Album
Robert Page's 35 SQN Photo Album
Last official flight from Durban by Tom Chalmers

Flying Boat Control Tower

Flying Boat Eyewitnesses

Edith Sherry's trip from Southampton-Durban in 1937
Air/Sea Cadets - George Haskins & Des Manning
35 SQN SAAF Shuttle Flights - Post WWII - Bob Fraser
From Southampton to Durban on BOAC - Joyce Mitchell nee Gibbs
In the BOAC Office in Durban - John Field
Cadet camp - Pat Sligo

This lovely picture of a passenger Flying Boat is taken from a souvenir booklet of Durban. Details here.

Main Aviation Page

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