The Cavalier Flying Boat, c. 1930s
This flying boat, manufactured by the Short Brothers and called the Cavalier (each individual plane was given a name that started with "C") carried passengers between Long Island and Bermuda in the late 1930s until it was lost January 21,
Imperial Airways’ Cavalier, 1930s
The Cavalier flying boat made journeys from London to New York to Bermuda from 1937 until 1939, when it made a tragic crash landing in the open sea. Read an account of the accident here, from the February 6, 1939
Bermuda Air Cruises Brochure, 1938 [Inside]
<<Click on image to enlarge>> Left: "CRUISE RATES INCLUDE not only transportation from Port Washington to Hamilton and return but also, for the cruise period, a single room with bath for one or a double room with bath for two, and
Bermuda Air Cruises Brochure, 1938 [Inside Flap]
"The NEW Travel Hit!" "NOT JUST A CRUISE, not just the treasure isles of Bermuda, not alone the fact that you travel there by air (in 5 hours from New York) but all three put together . . . AIR CRUISES
Bermuda Air Cruises Brochure, 1938 [Back Cover]
Top plane: Pan American Airways' U.S.A. Bermuda Clipper Bottom plane: Imperial Airways' R.M.A. Cavalier "AIR LINES TICKET AGENCY OF E. K. SMITH, INC. 41 EAST 47TH STREET NEW YORK, N. Y."