Short

Short Sunderland

Maritime patrol flying boat

  • First flight1937
  • Introduction1938
  • StatusRetired
  • Number built777
Technical data

Specifications

01

Crew & dimensions

Crew
9–11 (two pilots, radio operator, navigator, engineer, bomb-aimer, three to five gunners)
Length
85 ft 4 in
Wingspan
112 ft 9.5 in
Height
32 ft 10.5 in
02

Performance

Maximum speed
210 mph
Range
1,780 mi
Service ceiling
17,200 ft
03

Powerplant

Powerplant
4 × Bristol Pegasus XVIII 9-cylinder air-cooled radial piston engines (1,065 hp)
04

Armament

Armament
Guns: up to 12 × 0.303 in Browning machine guns – two fixed on each side of the nose firing forwards (often removed), two in a Nash & Thompson FN.11 nose turret, four in an FN.4a tail turret (which doubled the ammunition capacity of the earlier FN.13), and two in an optional FN.7 dorsal turret which replaced the flexible guns fired from open dorsal/beam hatches in the Mk.Is., On some aircraft Browning 0.5 in machine guns replaced the fixed forward firing.303s.; Bombs: up to 2000 lb of bombs, mines and depth charges internally, winched out under the wings through hatches in the fuselage sides.

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