JANUARY 30TH – 1ST FEBRUARY. SHERINGHAM,
NORFOLK. An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, and with the
help of fifty soldiers the motor life-boat Foresters Centenary was launched at 12.6 P.M. A light S.W. wind was blowing, with a slight swell. Later a fishing boat was sent out to give fresh information to the lifeboat and to help in the search. An aeroplane was alsosent out. The aeroplane was found off
Weybourne by the fishing boat as she was returning at 4.15 P.M. The life-boat continued the search for the airmen, but found nothing, and returned at 7.40 P.M. Two days later the life-boat was asked to go and and see if the aeroplane could he salved. She put out at 12.25 P.M., with men from Weybourne Camp on board, accompanied by a fishing boat. Nothing could bc seen at the place where the aeroplane had sunk, which was marked by a float, but using a wire sweep the life-boat and the fishing boat found what was thought to be the engine. Then, on the beach at Salthouses, a mile away, the life-boatmen saw the greater part of the aeroplane, without
the engine. It was pulled out to the life-boat which brought it back to Sheringham, arriving at 5 P.M. – Rewards : First, service, life-boat £36, shore boat, f16 19s. : second service, life-boat, £24 6s. 9d., shore boat,
£7 2s. 6d.

Possibly Hudson V9109 but yet to be confirmed

Wellington Ic
W5720

OCTOBER 27TH. – SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK.
At 12.50 in the afternoon the landlord of the Crown Inn, on the sea front, was
serving in his bar. The morning had been foggy, but at that moment the sun came through and as it did so the landlord glanced out of the window and saw a speck on the sea about two miles north of Sheringham. He got his telescope on it, and saw that the speck was men on what looked like a raft.
Just then the second-coxswain of the lifeboat came in for his lunch-time glass of beer. He went off at once with the news, and at 1.5 the motor life-boat Foresters Centenary was launched. A light W.N.W. wind was blowing, and the sea was rough, with a strong swell after a very heavy gale the day before. The life-boat reached the “ speck ” twenty minutes later and found that it was a rubber dinghy with five airmen on board. They were all Poles, the crew of a Wellington bomber which had come down in the sea off the Wash at about 8.30 the night before in the gale. They had taken to their dinghy but, in the heavy seas, the sixth member of the crew had been unable to reach it and had been drowned. The other five men had been drifting and tossing in their dinghy in heavy seas for seventeen hours, soaked and sea-sick. The life-boat crew rescued them, gave them rum, chocolate and biscuits from the emergency rations and brought them ashore, landing them at 2 P.M. A letter of thanks was received from the Directorate of Aircraft
Safety. – Rewards, £19 16s. 6d.

SEPTEMBER 1ST. – SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK.
At 5.45 A.M. the naval authorities at Cromer asked for the life-boat to go
out, as an aeroplane was in the sea between Sheringham and Blakeney. A light westerly wind was blowing, the sea was smooth. The motor life-boat Foresters Centenary was launched at 6 A.M., and found, off Salthouse, a patch of oil and part of an aeroplane. The crew of four had got ashore in their rubber boat. The life-boat picked up some wreckage and gear and returned to her station again at 7.30 A.M. – Rewards, £16 6s. 6d.

Hi Rob,

Notes on services from RNLI Rescue Records 1939-46

13th May 1943

42-29752, B-17F-70-BO

MAY 1 3TH. – SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK.
At about 4.45 P.M. information was received that an aeroplane had come
down in the sea off Blakeney Point. The weather was fine with a strong S.W. breeze and a choppy sea. An exercise of the lifeboat had just been carried out by the District Inspector of Life-boats, Commander T. G. Michelmore, R.D., R.N.R., and when permission to launch had been given by the naval authorities the motor life-boat Foresters Centenary put out again at 5.3 P.M. Guided by a smoke float, dropped by a searching aeroplane, the life-boat picked up an American airman at 6.20 P.M. He was unconscious and though the crew tried artificial respiration for over two hours, they could not revive him. Another airman had been rescued by the R.A.F. rescue launch from
Wells, and she spoke to the life-boat and reported that the others had baled out over the land, and that the whole crew of the aeroplane were accounted for. The lifeboat then returned to her station, arriving at 8.30 P.M. – Rewards, £19 18s. 9d.

More to follow

Ross

Look no further than a few pages ago.

Bruce has posted links to the manuals.

http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=86770

Regards
Ross

Hi Robert,

For long straight cuts I clamp a straight length of timber to the top surface, offset by approx 50% of the face plate width and run the side of the jigsaw face plate along this as a cutting guide.

Ross

Hi Gents,

“Wreckage believed found in Glen Callater, Angus in 1976.”

Not proven but a good start.

Regards
Ross

Hi,

This is one of the best salt water/brackish water protocols for engines and aero materials I know of.

http://www.museum.wa.gov.au/collections/maritime/march/fallenangels/degrigny/fockewulf.html

Regards
Ross