Supermarine Seafire 800 Sqn HMS Unicorn May 1950 Kure AWM HOBJ0801
Same as the above, Unicorn dressed with flags to mark the 13th anniversary of the King’s Coronation at Kure in May 1950. Note the Rotol contra-rotating propellers of the Supermarine Seafire FR Mk 47, the type used operationally in Korea by the FAA’s 800 Squadron from the carrier HMS Triumph. The Mk47s were the last of the 22,000 aircraft built under the Spitfire/Seafire program, ending the 13-year production line in 1949. Photo by Phillip Oliver Hobson. AWM HOBJ0801