Mike there is a full picture I the report in the link posted by Ross McNeil earlier. It may be better quality as this was cut and pasted from that.

Interesting finds having read the Wessex Report in 2011 and hoping for a follow up to it on the Thames Estuary, I wait in excited anticipation.

I would love to see a graphic of all the Buxey Sand wrecks and better aerial photos.

The 416th definitely lost one Havoc in the bay in addition to Cramsie’s. A plane returning to Wethersfield from a mission with bombs onboard was told by Col. Mace not to land, but to take the plane back out over the Bay and drop the bombs there. The pilot didn’t have enough gas. Mace told him to take it over water and bail out. He did and the plane went down in the general area of the dredging. The pilot was picked up by air/sea rescue, the gunners had bailed out over land. That was before they learned that landing with bombs aboard was safe enough.

Thanks Denis,

There is a wreck out there near the JU bits I found, at first the people who found it said it was American through a 3rd party that story changed when they discovered I was MOD Police and suspect they have taken parts from it.

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A Havoc propellor similar in size to a JU

But if you don’t think there is one there then you will not consider it!

Thanks for posting the link Ross.
It seems that there are many JU88’s in the Thames Estuary not least on Buxey Sand. I hope to visit the sand bank in 2016 to continue the search for 43-9699 Bill Cramsies A20 Havoc from RAF Wethersfield MIA with his crew Sgts Jack Steward and Charles Henshaw.
In the mean time I have been developing the RAF Wethersfield Museum, interesting Stirling photos and a part from a crashed Hurricane?? In the last couple of weeks. I will post them in a new thread.