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Date: | Saturday 31 August 1940 |
Time: | night |
Type: | Blackburn Botha Mk I |
Owner/operator: | 608 (North Riding) Sqn RAF |
Registration: | L6165 |
MSN: | UL-P |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3 |
Aircraft damage: | Aircraft missing |
Location: | North Sea, off Redcar, North Yorkshire, England -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | Approach |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Thornaby, North Yorkshire |
Destination airport: | RAF Thornaby, North Yorkshire |
Narrative:Botha L6165: Took off on a training flight from RAF Thornaby, North Yorkshire, on 31/08/1940, but was unable to land back at base in the early hours of the following morning, due to the presence of intruders. The aircraft was presumed to have ditched in the North Sea, off Redcar, North Yorkshire, but no trace of the aircraft nor the four crew was found.
Crew of Botha L6165:
P/O (42697) Terence Hugh Creed (pilot) RAF - MIA presumed KIA
AC.1 (808373)Thomas Edward Corrigan (WOp/AG) RAFVR - MIA presumed KIA
AC.2 (808387) George Beadnall, (Obs.) RAFVR - MIA presumed KIA
Note that the date of death was officially recorded by the CWGC as 1 September 1940 - that is, the next day. Presumably the date was after all attempts to locate the aircraft and crew were abandoned.
Sources:
1. Royal Air Force Aircraft L1000-L9999 (James J. Halley, Air Britain, 1979)
2. The Kipper Patrol p 68 By Louise Wilkinson
3.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/70/a4233070.shtml 4.
https://www.baaa-acro.com/crash/crash-blackburn-b-26-botha-north-sea-4-killed 5.
https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1085223/creed,-terence-hugh/ 6.
https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1085019/corrigan,-thomas-edward/ 7.
https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1083606/beadnall,-george/ 8. National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR 81/2952:
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C16472450 .
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
02-Feb-2013 00:12 |
PKM |
Added |
22-May-2019 17:57 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Time, Cn, Other fatalities, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
22-May-2019 18:01 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Total fatalities, Total occupants, Source, Narrative] |
19-Sep-2020 19:56 |
T.T.Taylor |
Updated [Aircraft type, Location, Narrative, Operator] |