Date

Location

Force

Aircraft

From-To

Crew

25-08-1944

Sines (in the sea)

RAF     1OADU

Vikers Wellington MX     MF683

Portreath (GB) → Gibraltar a Rabat Sale

F/O   Grippaios     GB

The aircraft ditched about 18 miles west from Sines with an engine problem.

The Operational Record Book (ORB) of Portreath - base from where the airplane departed - refers that the pilot, Flight Officer Grippaios, was rescued by a Portuguese trawler and that there was no more information about other crew-members.

Resources:
*  Portreath ORB - National Archives - London Kew