The Goshawk engines didn't do it any favors, not Short's fault but the terms of the specification, something which Saunders Roe and Supermarine managed to ignore.

Looks a bit like a British Martin Mariner, only this was built nearly a decade earlier.

for a long time the British had a real phobia against monoplanes. The fate of the excellent M-1 fighter of World War I was a classic case in point. Another was this maritime patrol flying boat from Shorts. There was really nothing particularly wrong with this airplane except that it was a little ahead of it's time. In 1933 the RAF simply weren't ready to accept a monoplane flying boat.

Interesting! A gull-wing flying boat...very appropriate design.