Monument record MHG50559 - Supermarine Spitfire: Pentland Firth

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Location

Grid reference Not recorded
Map sheet Not recorded
Operational Area CAITHNESS SUTHERLAND AND EASTER ROSS

Map

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Type and Period (1)

Full Description

NMRS Report: (02/11/2007 13:34:50)
ND27NW 8058 unlocated

NLO: Pentland Firth [name centred ND 35 81]
Dunnet Bay [name centred ND 198 704].

(Classified as Supermarine Spitfire: date of loss cited as 14 April 1944). This aircraft was lost in the Pentland Firth. Is this the one reported in Dunnet Bay? Registration: British. [No squadron, serial or identity cited].
(Location cited as N58 40.0 W3 22.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.

The map sheet and quasi-administrative area assigned to this record are essentially arbitrary, being derived from the unverified location that is cited by Whittaker. The aircraft may have been lost within the area designated as Maritime - Orkney.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 27 April 2007.



Sources/Archives (1)

  • <1> Dataset: RCAHMS. 02/2008. Annual update from Canmore. Digital. 288262.

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Record last edited

Jan 28 2009 3:19PM

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