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Canteen Assistant Leslie Norman Knight Collection |
(1927-1980) |
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A Fairey Firefly, less its propellers and smoking following a hard landing on HMS Venerable. |
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The flight crew getting out of the damaged Fairey Firefly. |
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The pilot still in the cockpit of the damaged Fairey Firefly. |
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Moving the damaged Fairey Firefly off the flight deck. |
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Two Fairey Firefly's in flight over HMS Venerable. (Aircraft 279 has the serial number MH-552.) |
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A Fairey Firefly fitted on to a hydraulic catapult preparing to launch from HMS Venerable. |
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Fairey Firefly (PP-612) seen in flight with another Firefly. |
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Fairey Firefly's tied down on the flight deck of HMS Venerable. |
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Fairey Firefly's tied down on the flight deck of HMS Venerable. |
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A Fairey Firefly on the flight deck of HMS Venerable. |
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A Fairey Firefly making a hard landing on HMS Venerable. Notice the propeller blade in the air. A Supermarine Seafire is seen in the background. |
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A Fairey Firefly after a hard landing on HMS Venerable. Another Firefly is on approach in the background. |
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A Fairey Firefly after a hard landing on HMS Venerable. |
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A Fairey Firefly overboard from HMS Venerable. (It is possible that this aircraft is the same aircraft in the photo above. From the colour tone in the original photographs it is possible they were taken by the same camera at about the same time. However, I have no documentary evidence that these two photos are related, this is just a guess.) |
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A Supermarine Seafire (PR-346) after a crash landing. |
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Crewmen extract the pilot of Supermarine Seafire (PR-346). |
All photos from the collection of Leslie Norman Knight Courtesy of Laurence Knight |
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This collection was scanned and presented to MaritimeQuest for publication by Leslie's son Laurence Knight. We very much appreciate his time and effort in making this collection available and for allowing us to publish it on the site. There were very few notes or dates on the photos, which makes it difficult to place them in chronological order, so we have published them in subject order. MaritimeQuest Senior Researcher Mike Griffiths has provided much of the information and identification of the photos in the collection. Thanks to both Laurence and Mike for their assistance. |
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Page published August 6, 2020 |