MHG50685 - Handly Page Hampden: Sinclair's Bay, North Sea

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  • AIRCRAFT (Undated)

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NMRS Report: (02/11/2007 13:34:11)
ND36SE 8045 unlocated

NLO: Keiss [name: ND 347 612]
Sinclair's Bay [name centred ND 37 56]
Pentland Firth [name centred ND 35 81].

(Classified as Handley Page Hampden: date of loss cited as 3 April 1943). AT195: this aircraft of 16 sqdn [RAF] developed an uncontrollable yaw, and crashed off Keiss Pier, Caithness. Registration: British.
(Location of loss cited as N58 34.0 W3 2.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.

The map sheet assigned to this record is derived from the location of loss that is cited by Whittaker. Keiss Pier is presumably to be equated with Keiss harbour (ND36SE 27.00), at ND 3513 6091.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 14 May 2007.



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