HMS Triumph (R16)
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HMS Triumph was a Royal Navy Colossus-class light fleet aircraft carrier. She served in the Korean War and later, after reconstruction, as a support ship.
HMS Triumph at sea, March 1950
Battle of Inchon, 1950
HMS Triumph as a heavy repair ship.
Supermarine Sea Otter
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The Supermarine Sea Otter was an amphibious aircraft designed and built by the British aircraft manufacturer Supermarine. It was the final biplane flying boat to be designed by the company, and the la
HMS Triumph (R16)
…similarities would play to an almost tragic incident further into Triumph's deployment during the Korean War. On 19 July 1950, Lieutenant P. Cane, flying a Sea Otter, an air-sea rescue aircraft, performed the last operational sea rescue of that type, when a F4U Corsair had been shot down by anti-aircraft fire, forcing…
One of the two constructed prototypes, photographed in 1942
Sea Otter I of the Marine Aircraft Experimental Establishment in 1948