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This article is based on the transcript of the official British report into the incident of this device.
want to thank Carlos Guerreiro Portuguese journalist and author of "Aterrem em Portugal" the giving me this document for publication. http://www.landinportugal.org/index.htm
"We were members of the crew of a Catalina aircraft that we derive from our base at Pembroke Dock at 20:00 of April 16, 1943 in a antisubmarine patrol in the Gulf of Biscay.
1:45 day on April 17, 1943 found a fuel leak in the auxiliary tanks. We were about 240 kms. the northern coast of Spain. We knew it was impossible try to return to our base, so we decided to make an emergency landing at close to the English coast.
At 04:00 splashed down about 20 kms. west of Cape Toriñana in the province of La Coruña. The unit was not damaged, nor any of us. Continue in the unit and fired two signal flares. Also we got rid of the heavier equipment.
About 06:00 am we spotted two small fishing boats approaching. Flares fired two more, and we got on board our lifeboats, before we destroy the rest of the team and holed the hull of the plane with an ax. One of the fishing, the "Pepe Monis" We came on board, and taken to Marin in the province of Pontevedra.
The plane sank very quickly and we did not hear anything more about this.
Marin arrived at 14:00 and took us to the Naval Academy. Later they took us to see the Port Authority of the Merchant Marine, an officer there asked us some questions in English. They wanted to know the type of equipment and if we had been shot down. We asked if we could see the British Consul in Vigo.
18:30 On came the British Consul, Mr Lindsay and drove us to a hotel in Vigo. next day gave us clothes.
On the afternoon of April 19, 1943 an Officer of the Air Force took us to Valladolid and stayed in a hotel. We were not under arrest or surveillance. The Air Force authorities gave us 500 pesetas to each of us.
On April 21, 1943, another Air Force official took us by car to Madrid. At this time we had some technical questions on the type of product, from whence we came and what was our mission. Not answer any of these questions. In Madrid we were taken to the British Embassy and we received the Air Attaché. We were taken to a hotel and were there until the afternoon of April 23, 1943, then took a train that took us to Gibraltar. We stayed in Gibraltar from 24 to 29 April and then embarked on HMS Bachaquero to the United Kingdom "
HMS Bachaquero
Catalina Mk 1B (PBY 5B)
Code: Phil 271
RAF Coastal Command 210 Sq.
F / Sgt. - William Stanley ALDERSON - 1064096 - Pilot - RAFVR
P / O - Alfred James ISAAC - 132151 - copilot - RAFVR
F / O - George Wersley Adanson - 122329 - Navigator - RAFVR
Sgt - Paul Stanley GEES - 571 010 - Ing De Vuelo
Sgt. – Frank Gordon HOBSON – 820040 – 1º Observador/artillero – A.A.F.
Sgt. – Claud Alfred POTTINGER – 1253453 – 2º Observador/artillero - R.A.F.V.R.
T/Sgt. – Alan Brian ALLEN – 577604 - 3º Observador/artillero – R.A.F.
F/Sgt. – Charles Williams CARSON – 755721 - 4º Observador/artillero – R.A.F.V.R.
Sgt. – William James McDONALD – 622504
LAC - H. Thomas James BOUVIER - 1236824 - RAFVR
The Consolidated PBY Catalina flying boat is designed in 1935 and produced by U.S. company Consolidated, which transformed the ability to patrol the United States Navy. It was used by the Royal Air Force before the war, and built under license in the Soviet Union in this way, the Catalina flying boat was the most produced of history. The PBY was built by Canadian known as Canso.
In World War II, the PBY was used in anti-submarine warfare, bombing, patrol, convoy escorts, search and rescue missions and cargo transport. The PBY was the most efficient airplane in its class, and was the most produced flying boat in the Second World War. PBY recent military assets were withdrawn from service until the 1980's.
The meaning of the acronym PBY was, "PB" "Patrol Bomber" "Patrol Bomber" and "Y" was the code for the manufacture of Consolidated Aircraft, the aircraft designation system Naval 1922.
The PBY birth of the project (he also was known in the U.S.) went back to a request made in 1933 by the U.S. Navy seaplane for a new long-range patrol. By then, the main instrument in this category was the Consolidated P2Y, designed by Isaac M. Buffalo Laddon, brilliant engineer in the field of seaplanes and director of the Consolidated Aircraft. To cope with the new proposal, perfected the P2Y, providing a cantilever wing, mounted on the hull shallow but wide with a center support that housed the flight engineer. This wing was different from that of the P2Y per plant, rectangular in section trapezoidal central and outer sections, and all-metal construction with durable coating (the wings were covered in fabric). A unique feature was the floats on the wings joined by articulated mounts electrically retracted, so that in flight, the floats were on the tips of the wings. The helmet, also metallic, differed from that of other major appliances to have a single deck, with rounded upper surfaces. A bow tie was a chamber and a transparent window for the display of bombing, protected by a blind test of seawater. The forward cabin was largely glass and a turret equipped with a 7.62 mm machine gun. Aft of the wing, had set up two shot to right and left, each with a sliding panel. Unlike P2Y, the tail was conventional, with stabilizers mounted quite high in lead.
The power plant went from the Cyclone to the new Pratt & Whitney Twin Wasp double star, clean fairing in the center wing section, with guts and cooling Havilland propellers with variable pitch.
features PBY-5B, were the same as the PBY-4 adding a review of the tail, stabilizers and elevators and turrets on the side bubbles for machine guns and an increase in engine power. Were built between May and November 1942 for the RAF 225 units with codes FP100 to FP324.
210 Squadron RAF Coastal Command
Originally formed as No 10 Naval Squadron in San Pol on February 12, 1917 was created as a search unit responsible for escorting the RNAS bombers and reconnaissance aircraft.
In August 1917, the squadron received the new S. Camel and in October returned to their coastal defense duties. However, the German offensive of March 1918 resulted in the unit sent back to the western front to help strengthen defenses and during actions of April 1, 1918, the squadron was absorbed by the newly formed RAF and would be Squadron 210. In July 1918 he returned back to the coast, but rejoined the fight on the western front in recent weeks.
was reformed as a torpedo-bomber unit on 1 February 1920 in Gosport, equipped with the Sopwith Cuckoo , but this was short, the solution was 1 Squadron April 1923. The next reform was in Felixstowe on March 1, 1931 as a seaplane squadron equipped with Southampton II. The move to a new permanent base came in June when arrived at Pembroke Dock, which was still under construction. Were retooled with Rangoons in August 1935, moved to Gibraltar during the Abyssinian crisis, for return to Wales in August 1936. On his return would be equipped again, this time with Singapore. He also became involved in the English Civil War when he was sent to Algeria to protect neutral ships of being attacked by Axis submarines. The Sunderland come in June 1938.
With the outbreak of war the squadron was incorporated immediately to patrol the Irish Sea and with detachments in Invergordon and Sullom Voe, from the North Sea to the Norwegian coast. The squadron provides central base in July 1940, when he moved to Oban and began the conversion to the Catalinas. From October 1942, the squadron was back in Pembroke Dock with a detachment in Gibraltar, covering the landings in North Africa. The squadron moved to Hamworthy in April 1943, while the detachment of Gibraltar remained there, however, on 31 December, the detachment was transferred to No 202 squadron headquarters was disbanded.
The squadron was renamed on January 1, 1944 as No. 190 based Sullon Voe in Shetland where he continued working until its final dissolution on June 4, 1945.
Motto: Yn and yn nwyfre hedfan - Floating in the sky
Squadron Codes used:
VG | May 1939 - Sep 1939 |
DA | Sep 1939 - Dec 1943 |
Fuentes:
National Archives, Kew, London
Carlos Guerreiro