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Sopwith Bat Boat Paperback update 25Jan16  

“The Sopwith Bat Boat” is an excellent detailed account of the design, development and achievements of one of the Sopwith Aviation Company’s first successful aircraft types.  

This 60 page generously illustrated A5 paperback is now available at a special offer price of £5 including UK postage. (Originally £7 plus postage).  

Produced to celebrate the centenary of the first flight at Cowes on 13th March 1913 it includes much of the research done by Hawker’s Bert Tagg on all the Bat Boats and illustrations of the building of a large scale model displayed in the Classic Boat Museum at Cowes.

  To mail-order phone the author Bob Wealthy on 01329 315561 or e-mail


Sopwith Bat Boat