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Stirling Bomber Wreck
I was in Worthing recently enjoying the Summer sun with my wife and kids and stumbled upon a piece of interesting Short Stirling information.
Along the seafont was a temporary exhibition of maritime artefacts and one of the display panels showed a Stirling Bomber. I scribbled down what it said...
...'Found in 1970, this bomber was lying on it's back with its wheels down at 50 46 21 N;00 14 00 W. The divers found her when recovering a trawl which had caught on the aircraft. The Stirling, a Mark III from 76 Squadron was returning from a raid on Frankfurt and ditched offshore. A Supermarine Walrus floatplane picked up the crew and dropped them of at Worthing Pier'...
Along with the Goodwin Sands Dornier recovery it would be great to see this one raised to fill in the Bomber Command 'gap' at the RAFM. Back in May I spoke to a few ex-Stilring crew at a signing event for the Bomber Command Memorial and they had been campaigning to get a Russian built Stirling brought to England but as yet without success.
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9th October 2010, 09:14
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