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Swordfish now out

Quick update, I've played around with Mathias' source file which I can hopefully combine with a cockpit section I was already working on to produce a decent 'Fish for FSX. ETA is a bit uncertain at the moment due to real life but once I get back into a routine I should have a better idea!

I'm trying to think which carrier Ian's Grandfather could have been on, I know Ark Royal was sunk in the Med but I'm not sure which other ones were.
 
I think it was the Ark, but didn't name it because I'm not 100% sure. My dad has all the service histories and my sister wrote Grandad's biography when she was at school, so all the evidence is in different counties than I am. ;)

I need to speak to Dad later anyway, so I'll ask if he can remember. I know his father was on Victorious for a while as well, but that was still very much intact when he left it. None of the ships he served on were actually sunk with him on it, although I think it was either twice or three times that Gran heard that ship he had been transferred to had been sunk before receiving news that he had left it before that happened. The closest he came to losing a ship was due to ice build up on the Murmansk convoy, when the entire ship's company was brought up to break off the ice because the ship was in serious danger of capsizing and they were hiding under a storm so the Luftwaffe bombers in Norway couldn't get at them.

Edited to add: It should actually, with a bit of research and assuming that the sequence of events really did happen in that order and weren't turned around in the passage of time and telling, be possible to work it out. When was the Ark Royal destroyed and when was the big convoy to Murmansk? Anyone know?
 
Well it turns out that the carrier that was sunk just after he left it was actually his first - not his second - floating airport. Not the same one that the Swordfish incident was on. The carrier was HMS Courageous, sunk off the coast of Ireland while on Anti Submarine Warfare patrol. The carrier he was on in the Mediterranean when the Swordfish incident took place was "either Illustrious or Victorious".

This is what happens when you were told the stories the best part of 30 years ago... Sorry! :redface:
 
IanP said:
Well it turns out that the carrier that was sunk just after he left it was actually his first - not his second - floating airport. Not the same one that the Swordfish incident was on. The carrier was HMS Courageous, sunk off the coast of Ireland while on Anti Submarine Warfare patrol. The carrier he was on in the Mediterranean when the Swordfish incident took place was "either Illustrious or Victorious".

This is what happens when you were told the stories the best part of 30 years ago... Sorry! :redface:
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Holy seagull excrement! Sounds like your Grandfather had the knack for dodging the torpedo's! Good story.
 
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