Supermarine:Southampton

1925.

1925.

1925.

1927.

1930. Mk X Three Engined BiPlane Flying Boat.

November 1932. (Flight 1932/11/17)

Note: This is a sub-section of Supermarine

The Supermarine Southampton was a 1920s British flying boat, one of the most successful flying boats of the between-war period. It was a development of the Supermarine: Swan, which was used for a 10 passenger service between England and France.

The Southampton was designed by the team of R. J. Mitchell, better known as the designer of the later Spitfire. Due to the success of the Swan, the Air Ministry ordered six Southamptons direct from the drawing board, which was very unusual. As the Swan had acted in effect as a prototype, development time was short.

These machines were fitted with two 450 hP Napier: Lion engines.

Variants

Different powerplants were fitted in variants:

Mk I

• Napier Lion V engine, wooden hull. 23 built.

Mk II

• Napier Lion Va, 39 built

Argentina

• Lorraine-Dietrich 12E. Five wooden hulled + three metal hulled aircraft.

Turkey

• Hispano-Suiza 12Nbr. Six built.

Bristol Jupiter IX and Rolls-Royce Kestrel in experiments.

Mk IV Supermarine Scapa prototype.

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