Originally Posted by
Old Hairy
I would hazard a quess that it was Aquila Airways.
Aquila went out of business at the end of 1958, shortly after their accident on the Isle of Wight. Their fleet was dumped in Lisbon for about 15 years afterwards until being scrapped.
Going through the Azores would be an obvious route for one of the very few Short boats being ferried across the Atlantic. Just a couple (the ones now in museums) did a handful of long range trips. All the other US and French large boats were gone by this time. When did the two Antilles Air Boats ones get ferried from New Zealand to the Caribbean ? I would have guessed after the early 1960s.