Singapore, 1930s

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Singapore, 1930s
an album of 109 photographs relating to aviation in Singapore in the 1930s, including aerial views of Singapore, views of aeroplanes and pilots, torpedo bombing practice, the aircraft carrier HMS Eagle, and a portrait of Amy Johnson seated in an aeroplane, one photograph dated 'Oct. 34'
6 7/16 x 8 3/16in. (16.4 x 20.8cm.) and smaller

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Lot Essay

Amy Johnson took off from Croydon on 5 May 1930, attempting to break Hinkler's England-Australia aviation record. After stops in Vienna, Constantinople, Aleppo, Baghdad, Karachi, Rangoon and Bangkok, she flew to Singara, 450 miles from Singapore, which she reached on Sunday, May 18, then on to Java and Sourabaya. She arrived at Port Darwin at 3.30pm on 24 May, becoming the first woman to make the solo flight having flown 9,960 miles since leaving Croydon 19½ days earlier.

HMS Eagle was based at Singapore in September 1939 at the outbreak of the Second World War with an air-arm of eighteen Fairey Swordfish torpedo bombers.

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