Maritime record MHG52060 - BLACKBURN RIPON: SOUND OF RAASAY, LITTLE MINCH

NG55SE 8002 unlocated
NLO: Sound of Raasay [name centred NG 55 55]
Portree [name: NG 483 437]
Skye [name centred NG 45 35].
(Classified as [Blackburn] Ripon: date of loss cited as 8 June 1932). This aircraft of 466 Fleet Torpedo Bombing Flight [RAF] was lost off HMS Furious somewhere near Portree. Body recovered by Kodama in August. Registration: British.
[No identification cited].
(Location of loss cited as N57 30.0 W6 5.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The map sheet assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary, being derived from the unverified location of loss that is cited by Whittaker. The aircraft was presumably lost within the area of the Sound of Raasay.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 4 August 2008. <1>