Wreck of British aircraft, Whitley Mk. V Z6504, off Brightlingsea (EHER 81652)

Z6504 was a Mark V Armstrong Whitworth Whitley British heavy bomber that ditched off Brightlingsea on 30th August 1941, returning from a mission over Frankfurt. Status: Casualty

NRHE data transfer: Armstrong Whitworth Whitley Mk. V standard heavy night bomber; one of a batch of 300 delivered between December 1940 and August 1941 to Contract No. B106912/40. Ditched 2 miles off Brightlingsea, Yorks [sic.], 30.8.1941 returning from Frankfurt [Brightlingsea is actually in Essex]. <1> Note: the location 'Yorks' has been copied directly from <1> but the NRHE compiler has noted that this attribution is incorrect. However, the NRHE record maps the location of this aircraft to a 500m buffered area around the NGR TM 08530 16100. This incorrectly places the monument in Foulness, Rochford. The actual location of the downed aircraft is not known, but a 2 mile buffered area from the coast at Brightlingsea could place it within the area recorded by the EHER. As a result, this monument has been mapped at the coast of Brightlingsea, and it must be noted that the actual location is unknown. Builder: Armstrong Whitworth Where built: Baginton Delivered: 1940-1 Squadron: 58 Note: No source is provided by NRHE for this information but is probably also comes from <1>.