Flying boats at Karachi
Ian, ref your Dad's Indian trips the BOAC C-class boats would have used the Karachi marine base at Korangi creek. In June '45 I flew from there in 'Cordelia' to Calcutta where we landed (if that is the right word?) on the Hooghly river close to large bridge; en route refuelling stops (three, if memory serves me right) were made at various inland lakes, an uncomfortable procedure for us passengers as instead of being moored at the lakeside, for safety reasons we had to transfer to motor launches until fuelling was completed. The lake waters were choppy so we had rough rides, and as the air element of our journey was also fairly bumpy I reflected that being made, during the same day, to feel seasick as well as airsick did not present a very good image of the supposed delights of flying boat travel!