Electric English Lightning ZF584 at Bae Systems, South Gyle, Edinburgh.

and this has what to do with the original post???

C’mon BAE lets get the old girl down from her post and spruced up a bit. It doesnt bode well from a business standpoint to see things like that left to deteriorate.

Diving conditions in the Firth of Forth are treacherous – strong currents and abysmal visibility. There are tons of interesting “prospects” down there from medieval times onwards.

They are supposed to be rebuilding a lightning up at my local Bae in Rochester, or as I like to call it “the short bros’ aeroplane works” I have a mate who works there and have asked him if he knows how they are going with it, but he wouldn’t know a lightning if it flew at mach 2 over his house blowing all his windows out, for some one who works there he shows a remarkable lack of interest in any thing that fly’s, anyway, according to damien’s site it may be used as a gate guardian there, if it is I hope they take more care of it than the South Gyle one. If anyone who knows how they are getting on with it, at Rochester, I would be interested.

Dezz 🙂

reply to Ross on Burntisland Hurricane

Ross,
Thanks for that fascinating information from ‘Diver’ magazine.
A retired fisherman in Port Seton, East Lothian still has the gold ring given to him by the the Captain of the JU88 shot down in 1939 in the ‘Forth Bridges’ raid. The German pilot Rolf? I’ve forgotten his last name- was grateful for the hospitality given to him by the Port Seaton fisherman as he waited to’ go in the bag’ at the fishing boat skipper’s house that he gave him this solid gold ring embossed with the Luftwaffe insignia.
Do you also know if there have been any dives on the last two ships to become U-Boat victims in World War Two?-I refer to the Canadian, owned but South Shields registered, SS. Avondale and the Norwegian freighter Sneland which were torpedoed off that diver’s paradise of the May Island in the Firth of Forth in the early hours of May 8th 1945 only a short time before peace was declared in Europe by the Nazis surrender-this was the closing shot of Hitler’s U-Boat war.
Brian

Good photos Merlin , I agree , she has been neglected at South Gyle , she has never been repainted / waxoyled or sealed at all , if you ask at the gate they usually let you in but escort you at all times , I have had a good look round her and she is in pretty bad shape , there is a lot of corrosion around her trailing edges and undercarriage bays , her underbelly has a few holes too . I wonder if anybody in the factory is interested in restoring her ??

Hi Brian,

You are asking about P3101 of No.289 Sqn which crashed on the 8th Dec 1941.

It was subject to a write up in Diver Mag a few years ago.

http://www.divernet.com/wrecks/1101planesd.htm

Regards
Ross

Burntisland Hawker Hurricane

Has anyone any info on the Hawker Hurricane which lies off the Fife coastal town of Burntisland in deep water in the Firth of forth between Edinburgh and Burntisland?
It wa foubnd several years ago in deep silt on the seabed by scubs divers searching for King Charles I’s treasure ship which foundered off Burntisland in the 17th century.

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