For Billyboy…

According to my records your father swam ashore at King Alfred Naval Station, Hove, (now the King Alfred Centre) about half an hour after coming down in the sea and was taken to Hove General Hospital suffering from shock, minor injuries and exposure.

Hi, he told me that he was picked up by the local lifeboat, whether he started swimming in and they came out to meet him I’m not sure, but he definitely said he was picked up in a boat? He also said that he went out between the piers so I would assume that the Spit went out for a while before ditching in the sea, but I’m not sure about how a plane would behave when ‘set to glide’? – As to whether it could have veered from the direction it was travelling when he baled out?

Would you be able to send me a copy of the photo you posted? It would be great to have a copy of it.