Oban Bay Cataline recovery

Catalina wing recovered

Found two more news articles:

http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/Crashed-wartime-flying-boat39s-wing.4090757.jp

http://www.mbmclub.com/auto/newsdesk/20080419185812mbmnews.html

The Lerwick Prop I mentioned was trawled up near Kerrera too – I did have a probable id for it somewhere & spoke to a veteran who identified the prop as definitely being Lerwick & recalled the crash – the bulk of it was recovered at the time in order to retrieve the bodies of casualties.

Lerwick at Oban!

Interesting find – I know many divers have looked for flying boat wreckage off Oban, but relatively little has been found? or should that be admitted to!

Many many years ago I obtained legal title to a Saro Lerwick propellor trawled up off Oban – I did this in good faith on behalf of the Pennine Aviation Museum group who I was a member of at the time – However despite their apparent enthusiasm for the relic and various promises, they never collected it and a couple of years later I spotted that it was still languishing in the CalMac shed on the wharf – I don’t know what became of it when these sheds were demolished 🙁 I tried to alert several groups to it at the time, but none seemed interested & several emails to the small museum concern at Oban asking if they knew what became of it have all gone un-answered.

As this was probably the only Lerwick relic in existance I would still be keen to hear if anyone saved it – I have no intention of claiming it – as I pointed out to the Oban group – but I suspect they thought otherwise?

Presumably this one:

http://www.obantimes.co.uk/news/fullstory.php/aid/3951/Mystery_plane_on_seabed.html

No info on the recovery though.