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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 862845
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/862845
ND55NW 8013 unlocated
NLO: North Head [name: ND 384 507]
Wick Bay [name centred ND 376 506]
Noss Head [name: HU 554 398].
Formerly entered as ND55NW 8008 (unlocated).
(Classified as Armstrong Whitworth Whitley V: date of loss cited as 26 March 1941). T4290: this aircraft of 612 sqdn [RAF] ditched off North Head, Caithness. Cannot trace: see Noss Head? Registration: British.
(Location of loss cited as N58 30.0 W2 50.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The map sheet assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary. North Head is on the N side of Wick Bay, and is preferred to the suggested equation with Noss Head that is suggested by Whittaker.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 15 May 2007.