Maritime record MWX2173 - Wellington MK IC X9677 HA-V

[Vickers Wellington Mk. IC standard heavy night bomber; 1 of a batch of 378 delivered between May 1941 and March 1942 to Contract No. B97887/39] Both engines cut; ditched off St. Albans Head, Dorset, returning from Bordeaux, 11.10.1941. Builder: Vickers-Armstrongs Where built: Hawarden Delivered: 1941-2 Squadron: 115/218 Date of Loss Qualifier: A

Wellington X9677 HA-V Came down in the sea off St Albans Head. An extensive search made by the St. Ives lifeboat during which some wreckage was found. This was reported as part of a wing camouflaged black and blue and a wheel. Three crew killed, three survived(2)

Wellington IC X9677 218 Squadron Crashed in sea off St Albans Head,3 drowned (3)

<1> Halley, J J, 1998, Royal Air Force Aircraft W1000 - Z9999, p112 (Index). SWX4683.

<2> Chorley, W R, 1993, RAF Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War Volume 2 Aircraft & Crew losses 1941 (Monograph). SDO10204.

<3> World Wide Web http://daveg4otu.tripod.com/dorset/dorcrash.html (Digital archive). SDO10199.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1354154 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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