Proposed memorial for the loss of RAF 1386

[Webfoot]

Hello,
The Air Sea Rescue and Marine Craft Sections Club are looking to erect to something to commemorate this incident.
We are looking for a suitable location for this and I would welcome suggestions. I have considered the lifeboat house but as yet have not followed it up in case there might be a better site.

[Coquet]

This is where I would put it. You are just metres from the site of the tragedy.

https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?m...Oo&usp=sharing

All the locals were around there that day and back along to Cliff House. Cliff house area would be suitable as well as it overlooks the site.


Warkworth Harbour Commissioners and the RNLI will be the people to deicide in the end?

[Alan J.]

Don't think you could get a better place, it's as near as possible to the site of the accident. There is already an info' board there concerning Coquet Island and this would compliment it.

[Webfoot]

Thank you very much. It is a while since I last visited Amble and that is why I sought local knowledge. I will contact the authorities in due course.
Many thanks once again.
Donald Smith

[Webfoot]

Sorry to be a nuisance but would it be possible for someone to take a few photographs of this site as it would give me a better idea as to the type of memorial that would be best suited.

Kind regards
Donald Smith

[Coquet]

Will do in the next 48 hours, when the weather permits. (Thursday probably)

[Coquet]

ok this is the South Jetty, AKA Amble Pier, the site in question is at the junction of this and the concrete breakwater in the right distance.

[Coquet]

and this is further along approaching the junction between the jetty and breakwater.

[Coquet]

Here's the junction. The white water just behind the sign (fixed on the railings) is where the pinnace ended up, and where the rescue attempt was.

[Coquet]

Here's the view along the breakwater, the red sign in the photos above arrowed on the left. Where the pinnace was arrowed centre.

[Coquet]

Here's the existing sign about Coquet Island if anyone is interested:

Large picture of Coquet Island information board on Amble Pier

[Coquet]

Here's a pan around I shot today. Useless weather and I forgot my monopod so it's in my wobbly hand , but this is the area discussed above.


https://vimeo.com/144008219


(edit: added a nice bit of Rachmaninoff )

[Coquet]

There is another interesting spot for a memorial. A concrete platform was laid many years ago for a temporary hauler for dragging sewer pipes out to sea. It is near Cliff house, at the entrance to the breakwater. It would need repaired and a handrail put up, and it is up a few steps, but it gives a panorama over the area in question.

[Coquet]

View of the area from Cliff House.

https://vimeo.com/144032925 + some Mozart

[Coquet]

Originally Posted by Coquet

Here's a pan around I shot today. Useless weather and I forgot my monopod so it's in my wobbly hand , but this is the area discussed above.


https://vimeo.com/144008219


(edit: added a nice bit of Rachmaninoff )

I think Shaun Brown - a schoolboy who lived in our street at the time lost his life near this spot as well in the 1970s.

[hollydog]

Originally Posted by Coquet

I think Shaun Brown - a schoolboy who lived in our street at the time lost his life near this spot as well in the 1970s.

He was washed off the lighthouse steps around 1977 while playing with friends, very sad incident, he would be about 12?

[Coquet]

Originally Posted by hollydog

He was washed off the lighthouse steps around 1977 while playing with friends, very sad incident, he would be about 12?

Yes 1977. I recall his parents threw their energies into fundraising for the RNLI in Shaun's name. Went on for many years. I think the townspeople went the extra mile on every occasion. That was the grain of good that came out of the tragedy.

[Webfoot]

Very many thanks for taking the trouble to photograph these sites I am very grateful.
Kind regards
Donald Smith