FW200 F8+OK lost 22 October 1940

[Brian]

Thanks Martin

Good to hear from you again. Trust you are well.

I am now getting a clearer picture of events.

Cheers
Brian

[Tony Kearns]

Hi all,
I agree with my good friend and colleague Martin. It would indeed be a help if Robert or somebody could let us have the off time for the Condor from Bordeaux. It would also be of considerable assistance to us if a take off time for a Zenit sortie from Brest was also available....Wekusta 2 or 51.
Brian could tell us the identity of the eyewitness to the demise of the German aircraft mentioned in your initial posting.
regards
Tony K

[Brian]

Hi Tony

The following is an extract from Parliamentary Debates - http://historical-debates.oireachtas

"In October, the Kerry Head was sunk after being attacked by an aircraft off Cape Clear, County Cork. Her destruction, with the loss of 12 crew, was watched by several people on Clear Island although to this day the nationality of the plane that attacked her is unknown. An eyewitness said long after the war that a German plane dropped a stick of bombs on the vessel at around two o'clock in the afternoon, that the Kerry Head exploded in a sheet of flame and that the blast from the explosion brought down the aircraft which crashed in the sea. A trawler was moored off Cape Clear but did not have sufficient fuel to reach the scene of the attack. An Irish launch was only taken from Berehaven at 8 o'clock in the evening because the authorities were not at first convinced that there had been a sinking. Some of those who watched the attack from Clear Island claimed later that they saw survivors clinging to wreckage after the explosion."

Cheers
Brian

[Tony Kearns]

Thanks Brian for that.
I think that it is important to note "an eyewitness said long after the war". Martin, I am sure will confirm the number of BUM STEERS we get from stories being told and retold by so many so called witnesses. I have not been able to find an actual witness although I have been to Cape Clear Island many times, but on the other hand I have been told "great stories"
Incidentally there was no debris or wreckage or bodies washed ashore following the sinking and it was not for some days later that it was realised that the Kerry Head was missing.
Best wishes
Tony K

[Brian]

Thanks Tony

So I guess the jury is still out on this one.

Cheers
Brian

[Stig Jarlevik]

Thanks Martin for the update! Appreciated
Cheers
Stig

[Martin Gleeson]

Hallo to all,

Glad to have been of some assistance, but I am learning from this thread as well ! Keep it up. Regards and thanks.

Martin.