Swordfish wreck found offshore near Malta

An interesting discovery. As already said, these sites deserve to be recorded and protected as best as possible. I stayed in Sliema a couple of weeks back, so this is all the more interesting to me.

With regards Swordfish on Malta, there is already an ex-Canadian example awaiting restoration at the Malta Aviation Museum (rather bent fuselage is displayed in the WW2 hangar next to the Spit and Hurri, other sundry bits including wings are in the museum’s store room). I visited the museum a couple of weeks ago and I get the feeling they have enough on their plate, the Hurri has been in the same near-complete condition for a couple of years and there are plenty of trawled up engines etc around the site. I was amazed at the amount of stuff in the museum store, everything from a length of Hurri fuselage to a Ju88 canopy frame, Ju88 fuselage sections, and what looked like a Bf110 wing (badly corroded, sea recovery) that was being used as a shelf to store other bits on! I could’ve spent hours in there trying to ID bits. Well worth a visit!

There were story’s some time ago about a Gladiator and even some Italian wrecks being discovered off shore around Malta. But the authorities are sensitive to any form of recover operation ?
Great news if these sites can be found and protected, even if there location means a they slowly wash away.

That last image is exceptionally clear – I assume it’s been processed in some way but it really does bring out the state of the wreckage.
Thanks for posting the link

I love it — the story says that the aircraft is “in acceptable condition”.

The news, otherwise, is interesting to me.