G-ADHM, aptly positioned with the Empire State building in the background.

Centaurus being towed to her moorings in Rose Bay, Sydney, 1939.

Another view of Canopus. First of the Empire boats, she made her maiden flight on July 4, 1936, in the hands of J. Lankester Parker. G-ADHL was finally scrapped at Hythe in 1947.

Servicing the Bristol Pegasus engines of an Empire Boat with Short Calcutta, G-AATZ, in the background.

Circe, G-AETZ, with the liner Cape Town Castle giving scale to to the picture.

Castor, G-ADUW, seen on the Hythe slipway in 1938.