Date:	Wednesday 14 March 1945
Time:	23:00
Type:	Short Sunderland Mk III
Owner/operator:	4 (C) OTU RAF
Registration:	DP178
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 11 / Occupants: 11
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Aircraft missing
Location:	70 miles off Sumburg Head in the Shetlands, Scotland -   United Kingdom
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Alness, Highland
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Take off was at 21:05hrs in fair weather. Vis 12 miles, 3/10 cloud at 6-7000 feet, winds at 15 MPH from SSW. Last radio contact placed it 70 miles off Sumburg Head in the Shetlands at 22:53hrs. Firshermen reported an explosion on the horizon shortly after 23:00hrs. Aircraft missing, presumed lost at sea. Rescue aircraft launched the next morning found sparse floating debris in the previously reported area.
Crew:
Pilot: J/21587 F/L Joseph Marcel Jacques Powell (RCAF)
2nd Pilot: J/25428 F/O Arthur Bowker Smith McElroy (RCAF)
Navigator: C/1841 F/L Arthur Gordon Rawland (RCAF)
Flight Engineer: 174490 F/O Peter Warren Berry (RAFVR)
Flight Engineer: R/225463 F/Sgt William Merser Richmond (RCAF)
Wireless Op/Air Gunner: R/142701 WO1 Walter Gill (RCAF)
Wireless Op/Air Gunner: R/108312 WO1 Ernest William McCready (RCAF)
Wireless Op/Air Gunner: 423125 WO1 Donald Eric Hunt (RAAF)
Wireless Op/Air Gunner: R/92380 WO1 Stephen Gordon Campbell (RCAF)
Air Gunner: R/264718 F/Sgt Eric Dwyer (RCAF)
Air Gunner: R/271248 F/Sgt Edgar Walter Sivell (RCAF)

http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=dp178&qand=&exc1=&exc2=&search_only=&search_type=exact
Accident report from The National Archives UK
Accident report from RCAF archival microfilms
Accident report from the personnel files of all RCAF crew members
https://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/memorials/canadian-virtual-war-memorial/detail/1083963
https://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/memorials/canadian-virtual-war-memorial/detail/232667
https://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/memorials/canadian-virtual-war-memorial/detail/1270844
https://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/memorials/canadian-virtual-war-memorial/detail/1079214
https://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/memorials/canadian-virtual-war-memorial/detail/1079321
https://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/memorials/canadian-virtual-war-memorial/detail/1804589
https://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/memorials/canadian-virtual-war-memorial/detail/2939907
https://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/memorials/canadian-virtual-war-memorial/detail/2940225
https://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/memorials/canadian-virtual-war-memorial/detail/1807238

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
21-Aug-2022 18:58	tachel	Added
23-Aug-2022 22:06	tachel	Updated [Departure airport, Narrative, ]
23-Aug-2022 22:07	tachel	Updated [Source, ]
24-Aug-2022 20:56	tachel	Updated [Narrative, ]
24-Aug-2022 20:56	tachel	Updated
28-Aug-2022 15:54	tachel	Updated [Time, Source, Narrative, ]
28-Aug-2022 15:56	tachel	Updated [Narrative, ]
28-Aug-2022 16:12	tachel	Updated [Narrative, ]
03-May-2023 21:18	Nepa	Updated