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Past Events: Media Launch at the Harbour Heights Hotel
18th October 2007
Introduction to Poole Flying Boats Celebration
Poole Flying Boats Celebration is now established to be an international charitable organisation to celebrate the era of the Flying Boats, which were based in Poole during the Second World War through to 1948.
It is long believed that there has been insufficient recognition locally of this epic episode which saw Poole Harbour as the home base for BOAC’s fleet of 32 Empire Flying Boats.
It was a time when Poole, through it’s Salterns Base and its Flying Boats, kept open
essential lines of communication (mail services) and travel to the Free World during
the dark days of hostilities, so that VIP passengers including King George VI, Sir
Winston Churchill, Lord Louis Mountbatten, and General Charles de Gaulle; alongside
officials, celebrities, entertainers, reporters (even spies); -
Poole must rightly honour and celebrate the lives & dedication to duty, of all the
men and women of the flight crews and the numerous support staff who served here
during the Second World War -
As well as also acknowledging members of the military, with their RAF Hamworthy Flying Boats, and the Seaplanes of 765 Squadron Royal Naval Seaplane School, at Royal Naval Air Daedalus II, Sandbanks: RNAS was otherwise often known as ‘HMS Tadpole’ and located at the RMYC in Panorama Road.
So please join the PFBC in our ‘launch party’ celebrations…
“Flying Boat Champions” -
