Archaeology Notes

Event ID 683860

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NM83SW 8033 c. 843 307

N 56 25.2 W 5 29.9

NLO: Firth of Lorn [name centred NM 69 19]

Ardantrive Bay [name centred NM 843 307].

(Classified as Saro Lerwick I: date of loss cited as 29 June 1940). L7261: this aircraft of 209 sqdn [RAF] capsized and sank in Ardentrive [Ardantrive] Bay. Recovered but total loss. Registration: British.

(Location cited as N56 25.0 W5 30.0).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The map sheet assigned to this record is essentially tentative.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 6 May 2008.