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I've done a fair bit of digging on this as one of my old man's dive partners came from the area and his Grandmother(honestly) told him the story.This is confirmed via research into local newspaper archives etc.Now there seems to be a couple of versions of this story,one is that several boats were scuttled.I was led to beleive that several boats broke their moorings one night in foul weather,two collided and one sank.Now I know someone else "here" has done a proper search re.this and found traces submerged deep in the mud that appear to be the boat/boats.Now I know the person in question,have great confidence that he knows his stuff and if he says it's not on it is'nt, so basically my interest in this intriguing tale was countered as the boats appeared to be beyond reasonable reach.However,earlier in the course of things,before I came to know,well anyone here,I'd made an attempt to contact a local man who sometime ago claimed he'd found,complete and on the bottom one of the boats.The guy had moved abroad however and I'd given up hope of contacting him when months later out of the blue he came hame to visit and contacted me.Now the guys not a diver as such,he dives I beleive in the pusuit of other agendas and recounted to me how he unexpectedly came across the F.boat some 5 years ago.3 yrs ago he decided to have another look but failed to find it,he gave me a rough location as to where he was when he found it.I intended to take the matter up with the guy who'd found the other traces and see if anything matched but I have'nt got round to it,yet.That's all I can tell you,flying boats are a passion of mine and I'd dearly love to dive her if she's there,but she maybe buried.Whatever,the story continues!Take care all,Hobby.
I've done a fair bit of digging on this as one of my old man's dive partners came from the area and his Grandmother(honestly) told him the story.This is confirmed via research into local newspaper archives etc.Now there seems to be a couple of versions of this story,one is that several boats were scuttled.I was led to beleive that several boats broke their moorings one night in foul weather,two collided and one sank.Now I know someone else "here" has done a proper search re.this and found traces submerged deep in the mud that appear to be the boat/boats.Now I know the person in question,have great confidence that he knows his stuff and if he says it's not on it is'nt, so basically my interest in this intriguing tale was countered as the boats appeared to be beyond reasonable reach.However,earlier in the course of things,before I came to know,well anyone here,I'd made an attempt to contact a local man who sometime ago claimed he'd found,complete and on the bottom one of the boats.The guy had moved abroad however and I'd given up hope of contacting him when months later out of the blue he came hame to visit and contacted me.Now the guys not a diver as such,he dives I beleive in the pusuit of other agendas and recounted to me how he unexpectedly came across the F.boat some 5 years ago.3 yrs ago he decided to have another look but failed to find it,he gave me a rough location as to where he was when he found it.I intended to take the matter up with the guy who'd found the other traces and see if anything matched but I have'nt got round to it,yet.That's all I can tell you,flying boats are a passion of mine and I'd dearly love to dive her if she's there,but she maybe buried.Whatever,the story continues!Take care all,Hobby.
