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Société Latham

French aeronautical construction company

The Société Latham was a French aeronautical construction company which built seaplanes for the French Navy. It is best known for the prototype of the Latham 47 which disappeared in 1928 with Roald Amundsen on board during a rescue mission to the North Pole in search of Umberto Nobile (a memorial to which was set up in Caudebec-en-Caux in 1931, by the sculptor Robert Delandre and the architect Léon Rey). The company was set up in 1916 at Caudebec-en-Caux, on the banks of the Seine by Jean Latham, cousin of Hubert Latham.2 It ceased to exist in 1927.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

1916Founded1
  • HeadquartersCaudebec-en-Caux1

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Latham HB.5 L'Année aéronautique 1921-1922
Photo: L'Année aéronautique 1921-1922, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons4

The Société Latham was a French aeronautical construction company which built seaplanes for the French Navy. It is best known for the prototype of the Latham 47 which disappeared in 1928 with Roald Amundsen on board during a rescue mission to the North Pole in search of Umberto Nobile (a memorial to which was set up in Caudebec-en-Caux in 1931, by the sculptor Robert Delandre and the architect Léon Rey).2

Products and brands

  • seaplane

Listed on Wikidata.1

Latham 43

Latham 47

From Wikipedia’s article on Société Latham, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.3

Acquisitions

  1. Succeeded by Revima1

Timeline

  1. 1927Dissolved Dissolved1
  2. 1916Founded Founded1

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