A short (pun intended) history of Short flying boat names

Firstly, if you want to see photos of all the Short Flying Boats, then

this site is the best I have found-which seems to have slightly

different information than that listed on Wikipedia.

I'm not sure, but I have a feeling this is the accurate one:

http://www.msacomputer.com/FlyingBoats-old/short/Short.html

Here is a summary of types from 1921 onwards:

Made by Short Bros Ltd:

1921 Short Cromarty

1927 Short Singapore

1928 Short Calcutta

1929 Short Kent

1930 Short Rangoon

1932 Short Sarafand

1934 Short Singapore III

1936 Short "C Class" Imperial Flying Boat -Empire,Cavalier,Caledonia etc

1937 Short S25 Sunderland(Military)

Made by Short and Harland Ltd (Belfast-Ireland):
1944 Short Seaford

1944 Short Shetland

1946 Short Sandringham

1946 Short Solent

This listing is neither definitive, or complete as there is another called a "Knuckleduster" somewhere in the piece!

I have been trying to draw a model of the Solent in Autocad. I am finding this quite tricky, as my normal drafting deals with things that are nice and straight.

Flying boats are full of curves! The Solent is the one used by TEAL and flown by Cliff in the 1950's. As you can see, it is not finished yet.