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Re: Seafox or Seagull?
Hello Alex
nothing definite but the British and Australian cruisers participating Bardia bombardment were Orion (Flag), Neptune and Sydney. Now ANZAC cruisers carried Seagull Vs/Walruses but I cannot find from my cruiser books any mentions that HMS Orion or HMS Neptune had got stronger catapult which was needed for the use of Walrus. It seems that of the RN Leanders only Ajax got that more powerful catapult and Walrus in 1940. So it seemed that if Orion and Neptune used their floatplanes they were Seafoxes. But this is only deduction from books which don’t give much info on a/c. And of course if HMAS Sydney used its a/c then it was most probably a Seagull.
Juha
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