Patrol flying boat S.19 Singapore Mk III, manufactured by Short Brothers, maiden flight June 15, 1934, equipped with four liquid-cooled V 12 Rolls-Royce Kestrel VIII / IX, 560 hp, two engines in tandem installation with pulling and pushing screw.

The largest of the flying boats, the RAF biplane, was structurally a biplane with a streamlined all-metal hull and fabric-covered metal load-bearing surfaces.

The crew of six was in the central cabin, as well as in three open firing points in front, middle of the hull and aft (Vickers or Lewis machine guns). A large fuel tank was located behind the wing in the upper part of the hull.

A total of 37 aircraft were built, discontinued in June 1937.

Bibliography

• Shorts Aircraft since 1900. /Barnes, C.H. (1967)./
• British warplanes of World War II /under cor. Daniel March/