Help identifying a Ship and airplane

[RemaL]

My line of work involves working with the elderly and I have been asked to identify a boat and ship for one of our gents family as he does not know.

So I thought I would ask on here as someone may be able to help

The first one may be simple with the plane. Not something I know


Also the ship the family want to identify is via a letter to the gent we care for from his father via a Airgraph. What is a Airgraph?

Any idea's from these pictures


We can't work out what the S.S Maung... is any idea

[TEKNOPUG]

The ship is SS Maunganui and the aircraft is a De Havilland Mosquito

[RemaL]

many thanks for the quick reply

[aeropilot]

Mosquito picture is interesting......appears to be a T.3 trainer version.

[dr_gn]

aeropilot said:

Mosquito picture is interesting......appears to be a T.3 trainer version.

According to Google, a "TW" tail prefix (if I've read it right) is a Sea Mosquito TT3. Doesn't look like one though.

[aeropilot]

dr_gn said:

aeropilot said:

Mosquito picture is interesting......appears to be a T.3 trainer version.

According to Google, a "TW" tail prefix (if I've read it right) is a Sea Mosquito TT3. Doesn't look like one though.

Not neccessarily, as a lot of the online info is missing.

For example an online source also says TV954 through TV984 are all Sea Mosquito TR33, but we know TV959 is in fact a Mosquito T.3 because it used to be hanging up in the IWM Lambeth, and is now being restored to flying condition in NZ for Paul Allen's Flying Hertiage Collection.

So, given that one in the photo is clearly NOT a Sea Mosquito......I'll stick to my original choice of a T.3

[Eric Mc]

I was trying to make out the serial and I think it might be TW116. I found this report on an accident that effectively wrote TW116 off -

http://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=16...

[FourWheelDrift]

TSS Maunganui history - http://www.nzmaritime.co.nz/maunganui1911/history....

[maffski]

An Airgraph is like an airmail telegraph.

Put your message on a form, it's then photographed and the negatives are flown to the destination where the photos are printed and delivered. The negatives are smaller and lighter so easier to transport.

http://alphabetilately.org/airgraph.html

[RemaL]

maffski said:

An Airgraph is like an airmail telegraph.

Put your message on a form, it's then photographed and the negatives are flown to the destination where the photos are printed and delivered. The negatives are smaller and lighter so easier to transport.

http://alphabetilately.org/airgraph.html

cheers for that and though it might be that

The chap I've been trying to get some info for worked at Rolls Royce in Scotland and then went into the RAF. His dad was in the merchant navy in the first and second world war.

cheers for the feedback

[Simpo Two]

At that time the SS Maunganui was a hospital ship, if that fits with anything?

http://www.nzmaritime.co.nz/maunganui1911/history....