Saro Shrimp

The Saunders-Roe A.37 Shrimp was a British two-seat, four-engined experimental flying boat built by Saunders-Roe at Cowes in the late 1930s. H. Knowler designed it in 1939 as a half-size research aircraft for the development of the S.38, a four-engined patrol flying boat to Specification R.5/39 meant to replace the Short Sunderland. The R.5/39 project was cancelled, but the Shrimp was finished as a private venture, registered G-AFZS and first flown at Cowes in October 1939, and it was based at Beaumaris in Anglesey where a slipway was built for it. In 1944 the Ministry of Aircraft Production acquired it as TK580 to help design the Short Shetland, and for that its twin-rudder tail was swapped for a single fin and its hull modified. It was scrapped at Felixstowe in 1949.