Beach Find

Some cleaning up of the last bits makes them look a bit more presentable, the big bit has an angled bracket on the end, it isn’t bent unlike the other side.

These jogged my memory as to a couple of other pieces I found some time ago in the same area, the round part is the back plate to an artificial horizon, and the part with perspex still remaining must be windscreen. The strip of metal bears the number 1292363, everything seems to fit around what was a thick casting frame.

Not heard from any Stirlingites

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Thanks Elliot Stirling was mentioned about the previous bits, but the numbers are a much better help

A possible contender could be BF516, PX-E of 214 Squadron, ditched 11/08/43 following a raid on Nuremberg, damaged, two engines out, returned ran out of fuel ditched.

129 suggests Stirling to me Junk Collector

damn, nice finds

A bit of beach combing yesterday turned this raggedy bit up, the curve bit has the remains of wood in it. it has a pretty interesting shape The bracket has numbers on it, which hopefully may pin something down more, this was in a similar area to the previous finds if anyone has any ideas, the smaller number is B740E.

May be coincidence in the same area I found this brass buckle which is 2.25″ x 1.5″, which looks as though it may be from the same source, there is a very small circle stamped on it with what seems to be W and a 2 underneath it and M possibly S each side

Thanks Rob 🙂

Impressive Id, Peter, you obviously know your Lancaster parts!

Rob

I have the same bracket on a section of bombaimers nose section wreckage. The bolts appear to be the mating surface of the nose and cockpit section and that repair does look like battle damage in the pic?

Must be another I don’t know about near that area, can’t find anything as yet

It says Lanc to me too

I can’t imagine it could be from ED475, I found it a bit before the sailing club, which doesn’t seem feasible

If Lancaster, there were at least two in that immediate sea area that I know about. Digging out the details will be the challenge!

The only one I know of is quite a way down in Normans Bay, ED475 but that is quite a distance.

Any ideas where the big bit with all the bolts would go ?, the picture of the bottom of it looks like a repair patch, it stands out because it hasn’t corroded like the rest of it

Lancaster

For what it’s worth I tried to take a pic of one of the bolt heads

I think British bomber, that bracket was used in the Stirling and Halifax for sure.
Cees

I am thinking the black staining may not be due to the encrustated silt but maybe paint.

This wasn’t far from a bit from a windscreen I found I posted a while ago and it was felt to be from a Whitley, there was a Whitley crashed at Bexhill, but I don’t know the precise location,

Its British from the bracket

Check the screw threads. It will identify the nationality for sure.

no numbers yet, it just got too cold to play with water today, I will have a better look tomorrow, the big bit might yield a number, the metal isn’t as dissolved