Saunders-Roe Princess, Southampton Water, Calshot - 1954 map   Above: A Short Sunderland flying boat off Calshot. RNLI lifeboat dredges up Second World War flying boat propeller web Below: Two unfinished Saunders-Roe Princess flying boats, designed to carry 105 passengers and have a range of 5000 miles, were cocooned at RAF Calshot during the 1950s and 1960s, before being scrapped in 1961 when the RAF base finally closed.   Photographs taken by Mike Reed