Jane's Encyclopedia of Aviation
Short 74 (UK)
Two-seat carrier-borne floatplane powered by a 74.5 kW (100hp) Gnome rotary engine. Eighteen were operated by the RNAS at the beginning of World War I.
"Шорт-81" серийный номер 120, на котором шеф-пилот фирмы Гордон-Белл летал в середине июня 1914г. на морской авиастанции Грейн (NAS Grain), Англия.
Commander Samson taking Winston Churchill aloft in Short Type 74 'folder' No.76 at the Isle of Grain, Kent, 1914.
Instructive view of the Short 'Folder', two-bay biplane. From this format came almost all carrier-borne aircraft.