Date
Location
Force
Aircraft
From-To
Crew
17-07-1941
Cabo de Santa Maria - Faro
RAF OADU
Bristol Blenheim IV Z7366
Portreath (GB) → Gibraltar → Malta
F/Sgt. G.K. Williams NZ
Sgt. R.E. Griffin GB
Sgt. N. Kay GB
The aircraft was on the way to Luqa, Malta, with four other Blenheim's. The main tanks became empty after the support from one auxiliary pump broke. The internment of the crew lasted until 31 July of that year. They left Portugal to Gibraltar in the steamer S. S. Briarwood. The aircraft went to the Portuguese Aeronáutica Militar with the registry AM262 and was destroyed in one accident in the Tagus River on July 12, 1944.
Resources:
* "Royal Air Forces Bomber Losses in the Middle East and Mediterranean" - David Gunby & Pelham Temple
* Evade & Escape Report - National Archives/ London Kew
* "Battle-Axe Blenheim's" – Stuart R. Scott (information sent by D.Smith)
