Napier Sabre found in Belgium

No Peter,
That was taken in our museum
It’s a Sabre from an unknown Typhoon/Tempest that we acquired about ten years ago from a fishermen and came from the North Sea. We used black coating as used on cars to hide it’s terrible condition (the block is splitting in to several horizontal layers due to the salt). But it’s in one piece and give a good idea about the bulk of the Sabre even with the front, top and rear missing.

Cheers

Cees

is this the same engine?

Is this the same one we saw in bots being picked up?

Shot another one last Friday. Bw Roger

Sent you a mail last night…. 🙂

Cees,

I have not really been able to determine what happened to the Sabres when the Typhoons were scrapped. Many of the Typhoons were unused with almost zero hour engines….with the Tempests still flying perhaps some of these were taken to keep the Tempests in the air. The engines that were used….there are some rumours that they were buried much like the unsalvageable parts of the Typhoons. There was alot of alloy in them but would it have been worth the time splitting these down? I would love to hear from anyone that knows anything different….

Dave,

Seems like the Typhoon as a type had to be disposed off as soon as possible, even sooner than the Halifax. There is so little news about any projects around, a few pics would be nice:rolleyes:

Cheers

Cees

Cees,

I have not really been able to determine what happened to the Sabres when the Typhoons were scrapped. Many of the Typhoons were unused with almost zero hour engines….with the Tempests still flying perhaps some of these were taken to keep the Tempests in the air. The engines that were used….there are some rumours that they were buried much like the unsalvageable parts of the Typhoons. There was alot of alloy in them but would it have been worth the time splitting these down? I would love to hear from anyone that knows anything different….

What happened to all those Napier Sabres when the Typhoons were scrapped. You would expect the Air Ministry to save a buch of them
inhibited in storage. These engines were paid for by the Air Ministry
IIRC. Were they all scrapped?
Cheers

Cees

Can you translate the captions Cees ?

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Typhoon flown by Australian Thomas Coburn. Shot down on Sept 8, 1944. It took months to find his body in Waarschoot. He is now buried in “Schoonselhof” near Antwerp. The engine from the Typhoon was taken by a local blacksmith after the crash. The current owned agreed to donate it to the BAHAAT museum. During the last 60 years, the whole engine had been taken apart. It will be restored by 2008.

There is a lot more information on their site. They also have 2 nice movies on the salvage of a 109 and a 190 D. Gonne visit them again in a few weeks time. BW Roger

Can you translate the captions Cees ?

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not too keen on the dragging of the engine blocks!!!:eek:

No, only the engine as far as I know.

BW Roger

Napier Sabre!

Wow what a neat find Cees! It is in pretty good shape really. Did they recover any other parts?