The Latham 47, or Latham R3B4 in Naval service was a French twin-engine flying boat designed and built by Société Latham & Cie for the French Navy. The aircraft achieved notoriety in 1928 when aircraft number 47.02 disappeared with the explorer Roald Amundsen on a rescue mission for the Italian explorer Umberto Nobile .

2023年4月1日 · In order to wrest their Latin brothers from the great peril of the Polar North, four of our men that grey and rainy June morning 16 June 1928, left the Seine aboard the seaplane Latham-47, flying into the unknown, sacrifice and death…

2024年6月18日 · The Latham 47 was a twin-engine, two-bay biplane flying boat, designed as a naval reconnaissance aircraft for the Marine Nationale (the navy of France). The hydroavion was 16.30 meters (53.48 feet) long, with an upper wingspan of 25.20 meters (82.68 feet) and height of 5.20 meters (17.06 feet).

On 18 June 1928, Roald Amundsen and a team of five men (René Guilbaud, Leif Dietrichson, Albert Cavelier de Cuverville, Gilbert Brazy and Emile Valette) flew in a French Latham 47 prototype aeroplane from Tromsø, Norway, to aid in the rescue of survivors of the crashed airship Italia. The party disappeared nearly without trace into the ...

Narrative:Roald Amundsen disappeared while flying on a search and rescue mission looking for missing members of Nobile's crew, whose new airship the Italia had crashed while returning from the North Pole.

Few days prior to the accident, the Italian Airship named 'Italia' and piloted by the Italian General Umberto Nobile crashed on the ice in Arctica with 15 people on board. The Norwegian Scientist Roald Amundsen obtained help from the French government to attempt a SAR mission.

The Société Latham was a French aeronautical construction company which built seaplanes for the French Navy. It is best known for the prototype of the Latham 47 which disappeared in 1928 with Roald Amundsen on board during a rescue mission to the North Pole in search of Umberto Nobile (a memorial to which was set up in Caudebec-en-Caux in ...

The Latham 47 was a French twin-engine flying boat designed and built by Société Latham & Cié for the French Navy. The aircraft achieved notoriety in 1928 when aircraft number 47.02 disappeared with the explorer Roald Amundsen on a rescue mission for the Italian explorer Umberto Nobile.

Latham 47 var en franskbygd tomotors flybåt, designet og bygget av Société Latham & Cié for den franske marinen. Latham med nummer 47.02 var flyet Roald Amundsen og fem andre forsvant med i 1928 da de lette etter italieneren Umberto Nobile .

2020年5月8日 · Le monument commémore la disparition de l'hydravion Latham 47 lors de sa mission de sauvetage de l'équipage du dirigeable "Italia" perdu dans l'arctique en 1928. La société de construction aéronautique Latham fut fondée en 1916 par Jean Latham qui reprit les établissements Constant à Caudebec-en-Caux.