Date:	Tuesday 2 April 1940
Time:	day
Type:	Hawker Hurricane Mk 1
Owner/operator:	151 Sqn RAF
Registration:	L1799
MSN:	DZ-X
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	North Sea, off Coast of Suffolk, England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Martlesham Heath, Ipswich, Suffolk
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Hawker Hurricane Mk.1 L1799 (DZ-X) of 151 Squadron, RAF, Martlesham Heath, Ipswich, Suffolk: Written off (destroyed) 2 April 1940 when "failed to return from convoy patrol over the North Sea, 2 April 1940". Aircraft dived into the sea off the coast of Suffolk. Pilot killed (probably drowned)
Crew:
P/O (42493) Henry Coxon Ferguson FENTON (pilot) RAF - missing presumed dead".

As no trace of the Hurricane or its pilot was ever found, P/O Fenton is Commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial

1. Royal Air Force Aircraft L1000-L9999 (James J .Halley, Air Britain, 1978 p 13)
2. CWGC; Norman L.R. Franks, RAF Fighter Command losses: Volume 1, 1939-1941, Midland Publishing Limited, 2nd edition, 2008
3. National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR 81/110: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C14141945
4. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1269918/fenton,-henry-coxon-ferguson/
5. http://www.epibreren.com/ww2/raf/151_squadron.html

Other occurrences involving this aircraft

25 May 1940	P3323	151 Sqn RAF	1	12 miles SW of Ostend, West Flanders		w/o
Mid-air collision

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
07-Jun-2019 15:40	Dr. John Smith	Added
08-Jun-2019 09:43	stehlik49	Updated [Operator]
08-Sep-2020 08:51	db	Updated [Location, Narrative, Operator]