Once upon a time in the Ijsselmeer

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Cees can you post a bigger photo? Also willl they recover the DO215 that is in Oct flypast?

Hi Nick,

Yes and no,

Thes engines were recovered a few months ago by a diving team after a fishing trawler snagged it’s nets on a Lancaster wreck we found in 1996. One of the engines was recovered in 1998 by us and has been on display ever since.
We had arranged to have the rest recovered by the Dutch Navy this or next year. We claimed the rights on the wreck just to prevent illegal recoveries like this. The engines were confiscated by the Dutch AF after we informed them and if all goes well these bits will hopefully be delivered at our museum soon. Pity they don’t preserve them in the meantime and corrosion has already set in. They are in very good condition (Packard Merlin 28’s).

Cheers

Cees

Have you been fishing again Cees? 😉