Thanks again to everyone who has contributed to this thread, especially Ross. The problem is that the Welsh side of the Dee where most of the wrecks lie is quite deep at high tide. Sufficient in fact for the Airbus 380 wings to be barged from Hawarden to Mostyn for onward shipping.

Hurricane L1547 was actually with 312 Sqdn, not 310. It is by no means certain that this is the wreck visible in the river in the 1950s/60s because there is a Polish Hurri out there as well. Nothing is currently visible. What is interesting is Spitfire K9890 on the opposite side of the Mersey near Hooton Park. It force-landed on a sandbank out of fuel on 1 Feb 1941 while with 57 OTU. A photo taken in the 1950s shows the engine and prop still attached to the airframe. There is certainly something embedded in the sand. I have tried to interest various recovery organisations but so far nothing has happened. This is an ex-Battle of Britain Spit and obviously very historic.

Thanks Ross for going to so much trouble, the info is absolutely brilliant! Sorry for not responding more quickly, but I was away. Looks like the name was followed by the initials and scrambled up. A rather sobering thought that I can see the exact place of his demise from my lounge window, also that a Tiger Moth pilot’s body was never recovered from the river after a collision with an MSFU Hurricane. Maybe only a mile away from Nussey’s crash site. For those not familiar with the Dee Estuary, it is almost four miles wide between Flint and the Wirral. I notice that the They Shall Not Grow Old entry says Flint, Scotland – perhaps confusion with the other Dee in those parts

Thanks for the suggestions. I will pursue!

Thanks everyone for your comments. Looks like we will have to be content with the few Albemarle remnants from a quarry in Cumbria. What became of them, I wonder?
By the way, when I wrote Tealing for Soviet training, I meant Errol!