Supermarine Sea Lion I

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variants with their own articles=The Supermarine Sea Lion I was a British racing flying boat designed and built by the Supermarine Aviation Works for the 1919 Schneider Trophy at Bournemouth, England. The later racing flying boat for the 1922 Schneider Trophy the Sea Lion II was a different design.

Development

In need for a contender for the 1919 Schneider Trophy race Supermarine developed a racing flying boat as a modification of their Baby. The Baby was a single-seat biplane fighter flying boat powered by a 450hp Napier Lion engine in pusher configuration that had first flown in 1917.

Re-built as racing flying boat "G-EALP" was entered into the 1919 race. The aircraft was withdrawn after one lap and the race was abandoned due to fog. On 10 September 1919 the aircraft struck flotsam when it took off from Swanage Bay and the fuselage was holed, when it alighted near Bournemouth Pier the aircraft sank.

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ee also

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*Schneider Trophy
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*List of seaplanes and flying boats

References

* A.J.Jackson, "British Civil Aircraft since 1919" Volume 3, Putnam & Company, London, 1974, ISBN 370 10014 X
* The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Aircraft (Part Work 1982-1985), 1985, Orbis Publishing, Page 2992
* [http://www.britishaircraft.co.uk/aircraftpage.php?ID=200 British Aircraft Directory]