The Saunders-Roe A.36 Lerwick was a British flying boat built by Saunders-Roe Limited for Royal Air Force Coastal Command, intended to work alongside the Short Sunderland. It was ordered in 1937 to Air Ministry Specification R.1/36 as a medium-range anti-submarine, convoy escort and reconnaissance boat and named after the Shetland town. The Lerwick was a compact twin-engined, high-winged all-metal monoplane powered by two Bristol Hercules radial engines and defended by three powered gun turrets, and it could carry up to 2,000 pounds of bombs or depth charges. It proved unstable in the air and on the water and had a poor service record: of 21 aircraft, 10 were lost to accidents and one for an unknown reason. The first was launched on 31 October 1938, the type entered service with 209 Squadron at Oban in 1940, and the survivors were scrapped by early 1943.
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The Saunders-Roe A.36 Lerwick was a British flying boat built by Saunders-Roe Limited (Saro).
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The Saunders-Roe A.36 Lerwick was a British flying boat built by Saunders-Roe Limited (Saro).
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the first being launched on 31 October 1938
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The Saunders-Roe A.36 Lerwick was a British flying boat built by Saunders-Roe Limited (Saro).
Operational history
By the end of 1942, the type had been declared obsolete; by early 1943, the survivors had been scrapped.
Operational history, units built
The last of a total of 21 Lerwicks was delivered in May
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