Carrying a practice torpedo. L7701 flew with the Torpedo Training Unit at Gosport, then with No 820 Sqn on HMS Ark Royal from August 1939. Photo from: Life

The prototype de Havilland DH.95 Flamingo over St Helier Harbour. The aircraft was evaluated by Jersey Airways, appearing here as Guernsey & Jersey Airways, from May 1939. The prototype was impressed as T5357 after the outbreak of war and damaged beyond repair on 4 October 1940.

Became an instructional airframe. Photo from: Library and Archives Canada

Crashed at Alliford Bay, British Columbia, on July 19, 1940, when landing the glassy water. The RCAF bought nine already obsolete Sharks from the UK in 1938. A further 17 were built in Canada by Boeing. 525 was UK built. They were used for coastal patrols on Canada's west coast. Photo from: Library and Archives Canada

NC777 on its second visit to Rose Bay (the first was in November 1938). Qantas installed extra fuel tanks so the aircraft, owned by Dr Richard Archbold, could be used to survey an Indian Ocean air route for the Australian government. In June it island hopped from Port Hedland to Mombasa in Kenya. Guba returned to the US where it was sold to the British Puchasing Commission for use by BOAC. Sunk at its moorings at Pwellheli, Wales, in 1945. The hangar in the photo was for Qantas and completed in October 1939. Demolished after flying boat operations ended at Rose Bay in the 1970s.