G”day all. I am new to this site so, please excuse any errors.

Ten years prior to the above date I was stationed at RAF Thorney Island, on the Marine craft section. Sometime late in 1956 we had a crash call that a Sea vixen had gone into the drink, a few miles out from Selsy Bill. As we approached Selsy Bill a 22 Sqdn chopper over took us. About 10 minutes later we received an RTB call,with the 2 Rolls royce engines flat out, we returned to T.I to learn that a French trawler had recovered one airman & the chopper had picked up the other. That was the begining of the end for RAF Air Sea Rescue. I presume the Sea Vixen may have come from RNAS Ford in Sussex.
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Not in 1956 it wouldn’t have been. The Sea Vixen didn’t enter service until 1959.