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| Keywords: Royal Navy Sikorsky R-4 on MV Daghestan 1944.jpg U S Coast Guard pilot Stewart R Graham flies a Sikorsky R-4 Hoverfly Royal Navy serial FT835 in joint British-American shipboard helicopter trials on board the freighter MV Daghestan in the Atlantic 1944 The British Admiralty had been impressed by the Sikorsky XR-4 and its anti-submarine potential These had been confirmed by trials aboard the British freighter MV Daghestan in November 1943 The first British Sikorsky R-4 was accepted in March 1944 in the USA A second batch was sent to the UK aboard the escort carrier HMS Thane D48 in December 1944 240 R-4Bs were originally ordered for the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force but only 52 were delivered due to the end of the Second World War <br>FT835 was the YR-4B ex USAAF s/n 42-107246 and it sailed for UK aboard the Daghestan on 6 January 1944 It was fitted with floats and is believed to have flown convoy-protection trials from Daghestan during the trans-Atlantic voyage FT835 arrived General Aircraft Ltd Hanworth London Borough of Hounslow UK and issued to the Helicopter Unit early February 1944 it already crashed at Hanworth in May 1944 and it was probably scrapped in 1946 http //collections naval aviation museum/emuwebdoncoms/pages/doncoms/AdvQuery php U S Navy National Museum of Naval Aviation photo No http //collections naval aviation museum/emuwebdoncoms/pages/doncoms/Display php irn 24211 QueryPage 2Femuwebdoncoms 2Fpages 2Fdoncoms 2FAdvQuery php 1993 501 073 092 1944-01 CDR John C Redfield USCGR PD-USGov-Military-Navy Sikorsky R-4 World War II on the Atlantic Ocean Military helicopters of the United Kingdom Aircraft adapted as floatplanes | ||||
