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Topical Budget 104-1: The Great Waterplane Race (1913)
 

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"Mr Hawker starts from Southampton water on the great seaplane race of 1,600 miles round the British Isles." The sea plane in the hangar, being taken out on to the water and in flight; some officials or spectators in a rowing boat and boarding a small tug or coastal craft.