Saro Shrimp
The Saunders Roe A.37 Shrimp was a 1930s British two-seat four-engined experimental flying boat built by Saunders-Roe Limited ("Saro") at Cowes. Development
The Shrimp was designed by H Knowler in 1939 as a half-size research aircraft as part of a development programme for the Saunders-Roe S.38 a four-engined patrol flying-boat to Specification R.5/39 – a replacement for the Short Sunderland. The R.5/39 project was cancelled but the Shrimp was completed as a private venture. Registered as G-AFZS, it was first flown at Cowes in October 1939. It was based at Beaumaris, Anglesey where a slipway was built for it. The Ministry of Aircraft Production acquired it in 1944 with the serial TK580 for tests to help the design of the Short Shetland a successor to the R.5/39 project being developed jointly by Saro and Short Brothers. For this its twin rudder tail was swapped for a single fin and the hull was modified to represent that of the Shetland. The Shrimp was scrapped at Felixstowe in 1949. Operators

Air Ministry
Saunders Roe

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Bibliography

 Green, William. Warplanes of the Second World War, Volume 5: Flying Boats. London: Macdonald & Company (Publishers) Ltd., 1962 (5th Impression 1972). . Jackson, A.J. British Civil Aircraft since 1919. London: Putnam & Company, 1974. . Jarrett, Philip. "Nothing Ventured...No 12". Aeroplane Monthly, March 1991, Vol 19 No, 3 Issue 215. ISSN  0143-7240. pp. 146–150. London, Peter. Saunders and Saro Aircraft Since 1917. London: Putnam (Conway Maritime Press), London, 1988. . External links

 Saro A.37 – British Aircraft Directory
 Saro A.37 – British aircraft of World War II
 "Dynamic Similarity" a 1940 Flight article

1930s British experimental aircraft
Flying boats
Shrimp
Four-engined tractor aircraft
High-wing aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1939
Four-engined piston aircraft