Sunderland book ‘flies’ with Trust’s help

 

Photographs now in the Archive of the Pembroke Dock Sunderland Trust have been used to illustrate a newly produced hardback book on the Short Sunderland.

 

Written by former Coastal Command navigator Andrew Hendrie the book - entitled Short Sunderland: The Flying Porcupines in the Second World War’ - has been published this year. It follows on the original edition which was published in 1994.

 

After completing a tour on Hudson aircraft in Coastal Command Andrew Hendrie flew in over 70 Sunderlands, the most famous of all the RAF’s flying boats.

 

In the 1980s Andrew began researching and writing about maritime air operations and several of his books were published, including his excellent history of the Sunderland.

 

Andrew died in 2004 and later his wife, Evelyn, generously donated his collection of Sunderland photographs, numbering over 500, to the Sunderland Trust. These are now an important individual collection within the Trust’s archive.

 

The help of the Sunderland Trust in sourcing the photographs is acknowledged in the new book, copies of which are on sale at the Pembroke Dock Flying Boat Centre and at the Trust’s recently established Fleets to Flying Boats Centre and Glass House Coffee Shop, The Terrace, Royal Dockyard, Pembroke Dock.

 

This is an important addition to the wide range of books on aviation and local history which are available through the Sunderland Trust’s centres.

 

Published by Pen and Sword, Andrew Hendrie’s Short Sunderland retails at £19.99.

 

Caption:

A line up of 461 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force, at Pembroke Dock - one of many photographs in the Short Sunderland book