Guys
Hold your horses for a minute. The date quoted by Amrit from his internet sites are both the 27th and the 28th which indicates the naval action possibly took place during the night 27/28th of May.
Radtke lists the loss of II./KG 54 Ju 88A-5 on the 28th and to a fighter at Ireland (in the appendix), but looking inside the book on page 66 it looks like Heinrich was NOT on the major raid against shipping earlier in the day but on a second raid during the evening and in fact lost over England.
Foreman lists the same action on the night between 28/29th of May. On top he claims it was shot down by AA in the Thames Estuary which to my mind is quite a distance from "100-miles-west-of-Ireland".
In RAF Fighter Command only one Beaufighter scored at an unknown time during the night of May 28/29th and that was W/C Appleton of 604Sq who claimed a Heinkel 111 at Buckley
I know that Coastal Command operated Beaufighters as well at least in the beginning of 1942. Could they have operated Beaufighters as early as May 1941 and recorded any victory? And did really RAF fighters operate as far out as west of Ireland at this rather early stage of the war?
The general problem is the complete lack of times listed in all my second hand sources and in many cases not stating if it was day or night when an action took place.
I must confess I am just as puzzled as Brian is in his first e-mail...
Cheers
Stig