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Originally Posted by LeffeBlonde
I found a post from Doug from 2005 re the above spitfire.
http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/f...stle-9979.html
I was searching for details of a wreck I came across on a beach in Scotland recently. I never expected what I found out - fascinating! The Accrington, Church, Oswaldtwistle presentaton Spitfire made a crash landing on the beach at Sandwood Bay in 1942 and I reckon that what I found is the remains of the engine and prop - but would welcome some sort of confirmation.
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The find was all the more fascinating because my wife's family is from Church and her parents may well have contributed to the fund.
I have e-mailed the RAF museum to see if anyone could confirm whether the remains look remotely like a Merlin engine but they have ignored me, I guess they have better things to do.
Any Merlin experts out there?
LeffeBlonde |
I saw this engine/prop on Sandwood Beach back in 1977. I met a guy with a metal detector who'd just located it buried in the sand. He told us he had found it on a previous visit, and knew of its history, but I only remember him saying that the pilot managed to walk out ok. I can only imagine its the same one. The pictures show exactly where I remember seeing it, north of the two rock outcrops that jut out into the surf. We had to help him dig out around the prop, as this point of the beach is below the waterline of the loch behind, and water constantly seeps into anything you dig.