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Summary

Description A Royal Air Force Hawker Hurricane Mk IA is launched from a CAM (Catapult Armed Merchant) Ship at Greenock, Scotland (UK). The first RAF trial CAM launch was from SS Empire Rainbow at Greenock on the River Clyde on 31 May 1941, the Hurricane landed at Abbotsinch.
Date circa 1941
date QS:P,+1941-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Source
This photograph A 9423 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums.
Author Lt. J.A. Hampton, Royal Navy official photographer
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