Lakesailor
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Do you know why they are doing this and where?
Protecting places is on the right trackWild guess... something to do with protecting the areas used for the tests of Barnes Wallis' bouncing bomb
You have it.Protecting the flying boats based at White Cross Bay ?
I will have passed over that this afternoon.Their other boat 'Merlin' (with mounting for Bren gun) may be found here. (part way across in a straight line from the end of Belle isle to Miller Ground)
When a boat location is given via sonar it's always a bad sign...
Looks like a Vickers gun in the photo.
Anything to do with T.E.Lawrence ( of Arabia ) ? he was a fan of high speed patrol boats...
Could also be a prototype of Bucklers Hards' answer to complaints about food and overnight fees.
Edit,
I thought there were rumours of Sunderland flying boats and possibly other aircraft down there, apart from the recovered Wellington ?
This also applies to Poole Bay, some Sunderlands were apparently towed out & scuttled, my father ( an aircraft engineer ) came across a main undercarriage wheel which had washed up in Studland Bay...
The Wellington was Loch Ness (not Bowness).
As for Windermere- I can guarantee that there are no planes on the lake bed (unless they're model ones.) Have found one of the lighters they used to remove the munitions from the Sunderlands though.
The Wellington was Loch Ness (not Bowness).
As for Windermere- I can guarantee that there are no planes on the lake bed (unless they're model ones.) Have found one of the lighters they used to remove the munitions from the Sunderlands though.