wonderful stuff Tim!

No way -José!!

Can’t say I blame you! After shorting you two rockets I’d be in no hurry to be the guinea pig again either! 😉

Morning is in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

If you Google – Nova Scotia Archives “An East Coast Port”
in the Jefferson collection there are some photos of CAM ships in Halifax Harbor.
In particular see – British catapult freighter Kafristan.

Another book on the CAM Ship operation is “THE CATAFIGHTERS and Merchant Aircraft Carriers” by Kenneth Poolman.
Kimber 1970

Barrie – thanks very much for this gem of a resource! I found several pictures of CAM ships by using the search feature at the bottom of the page, entering “empire” as the criteria since most CAM ships carried an “Empire ….” name. (Empire Faith, Ray, Spray, Lawrence, etc….)

Here’s a link to it for everyone’s ease of use: (note you can zoom in and pan the photo’s – very cool!)

Nova Scotia Archives – CAM Ship photo’s

Tim – I searched for ‘Eastern City’ with no luck….. 🙁

Totally agree slicer – ‘Hurricats’ is a superb book.

The loss of Bob Everett is certainly a sad chapter. After shooting down the Condor he had such difficulty trying to bail out that he chose to ditch, and nearly drowned with his rapidly sinking Hurricane. It is suggested in the book that his death could have stemmed from a reluctance to try bailing out again, but we’ll never know for certain.

His Condor kill is distinct not only for being the first, but it was also the only non-MSFU kill (he was 804 Sqn as you know) and the only one launched from a FCS (Fighter Catapult Ship), HMS Maplin, rather than a CAM ship.

Why so many codes? Oh no, I was hoping you could answer that Tim! 😉 😀

My info gives the same codes, with KE being Speke based aircraft, LU and NJ allocated to CAM/FCS ships, and XS Canadian based reserves kept at Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. The only explanation I’ve found for the multitiude being MSFU’s size and variety of locations.

MSFU apparently also had a few Spitfire I’s and a V, a Tiger Moth and Miles Master II, but have no info on their coding.

On return, launched for Fairwood Common – 1 hour’s flight. Scotty Edmiston from the other CAM Ship says he hit the sea!!

= Tim

Hanging on every word Tim! 🙂

Do you recall Scotty’s ship? The aircraft serial/codes you flew back to Fairwood Common?

Sorry, all nutter stuff I know… 😮

Just aft of the wing then? I was way off! Back to the archives – thanks Tim! 😎

And here’s a more current picture of my project underway…