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I am not being funny but bearing in mind she has been used for shark fishing they were most probably "go faster Stripes" to emphasise her hull sleekness. As yet I have not found an Airline with that type of striping,has she been built up just aft of her wheelhouse do you know, do you think she had a Destroyer Drop at one time like a G.S.P. Even if it is not R.A.F. it is a rare boat nevertheless to be still in existance and if you can find her idenity and which Airline she would look good painted up in their colours and be a one off!!
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I take your point :)

I wouldn't have thought that anybody repainting her would go to the trouble of scribing new paint-marking lines into the hull, though...that's far more the sort of thing a professional outfit like the military (or an airline) would do, I would have thought...
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No masking tape used in those days all done by Signwriters who would scribe the lines first, as I indicated I am looking for Flying Boat S.T.,s that have a paint scheme with stripes, any sign of the deck being built up level.
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Very little sign of the deck, to be honest :(

Have alook at my website: www.seaplane-tender.co.uk

I've had to strip up all of the deck, right back to the deck-beams as it was all rotten through...even some of the deck-beams didn't survive...this is allegedly how she looked before house-boat-isation occurred, though;

This was built by the owner when she was out shark-fishing...does it show anything interesting?
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What I meant there is that this was built by the owner of the boat when the boat was being used for shark fishing...not that the owner built it whilst simultaneously shark-fishing - appologies for my rather odd wording, there...
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Well lads, shes not a BPC  S/T but strongly resembles a 38ft Walton type, they built lots of civilian craft similar to the military versions. I have seen this model before and although it does not have the exterior strake the resemblence to the Walton is quite canny even to the rake of her stem, and the position of the wheelhouse. To the best of my knowledge the Waltons were not used by civilian airlines.

 
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looks a bit like a Staniland built job, similiar to Glenislay
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Sorry, I'm having trouble keeping up with some of the names and terms here - you chaps know far more than me about all this :)

Who were Staniland?  Was there a yard building ST's in Glenislay?

What's a Destroyer Drop and a GSP?

When I showed this picture to the chaps at the BMPT when I came to visit, they thought it might be a Walton - the length is a bit odd at 40'6" LOA, though (9'6" beam)...

Thanks for your patience :)
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This is tramontana's photo of Glenislay, an ST (466) built by Staniland;

A destroyer drop is what you have if your aft decks are lower than your forecastle;

 

 And a GSP is a General Service Pinnace;



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Glenislay with her original wheelhouse.

 

 

Just a comment regarding Glenislay  (thanks Christian)the photo shows her now, not as she was built which was in S.T. Style, Staniland were building boats at Thorne in Yorkshire but like other's have now gone down the pan.



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