Your knowledge of British Monarchy seemed extremely limited, was just making sure all bases were covered!

Eric Idle was brilliant at the do, I thought:)

HRH Prince Henry (of Wales), is his official title, Prince ‘Harry’ is a nickname, I think when he stands in as the representative of the monarch, then the official title is to be used.
The picture is King Henry btw!

You might want to be seated for my guess, but I’m thinking early Constellation variant!
I’m guessing the odd two guage for four readings layout is that the engineer would have the primary info on his panel.

The dimensions are a bit strange. They say the sidescan sonar shows the object to be 150 feet long, and call that 30 metres (!)

It seems a long way from operating range, but maybe a XXIII?
Also could be other types but the wreck has a bow or stern section missing.

Very sad news indeed, Geoffrey Hughes was a great comedy actor, enjoyed his down to earth roles, from Carry On at Your Convenience, Onslow in Keeping Up Appearances, to Twiggy in Royle Family.
RIP

Will ask around for you today, many of the old Jag hands are still here.
Purely as a guess, I would think it was somthing like Team 3 of the Jaguar maintenance group.

Fantastic pictures, thank you for joining and sharing.
Although there were a handful of post-war RAF types armed with turrets you don’t really associate air gunners with the period, so these pictures provide a valued glimpse into that role.
Do you know which Lancaster unit he served with?

The Marlin is a favourite flying boat of mine, so great to see a pic of the one above.

Two chaps , one a loader for BEA I think , got him out and he survived his severe burns .

Obviously the crash had to be at least a year or more prior to August 1964

My grandad, Jim Pearce, and Charlie Trezise rescued Captain Philip Cleife, they were fireman come ground/baggage handlers, Paddy Daly was the Chief Airport Fireman who put the fire out.
My Grandad marvelled at how easily the seven passengers escaped through all the gaps in the tubular framework as the fabric flash burned away, but the extrication of Cleife was very difficult as the control column had gone through his leg and he was severely burnt. His life was saved as a BEA WS-55 Whirlwind, G-AOCF, happened to be at Lands End on trials, the weather being too poor for fixed wing flights into St Marys – the ironic thing is that Cleife was a bit anti BEAs helicopter plans.

The accident occured to Rapide G-AHLM on the 20th July 1963, by December that year Mayflower was taken over by Scillionian Air Services.

Soggy, I can’t find evidence of Mayflower operating Proctors, there was a smaller outfit using them on a Perranporth to Scillies route in the early 1950s.