Date:	Tuesday 24 September 1940
Time:	09:00
Type:	Fairey Swordfish Mk 1
Owner/operator:	810 Sqn FAA RN
Registration:	P4217
MSN:	F4375
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 3
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Atlantic Ocean, off Dakar, Senegal, West Africa, -   Atlantic Ocean
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	HMS Ark Royal
Destination airport:	HMS Ark Royal

Narrative:
810 Sqn. FAA Royal Navy Fairey Swordfish P4217, 'H3-L', (on temporary reassignment from 814 Sqn. HMS Hermes), operating from the aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal, stationed in the Atlantic Ocean, 20 miles south of Dakar, Senegal, West Africa, was shot down into the Atlantic, off Dakar, by Vichy French Curtiss H-75As from GC 1/4, during an attack on warships in the port of Dakar, Senegal.
Pilot, Lieutenant, H. H. Jackson; Observer Lieutenant, J. S. L. Crabbe and Air Gunner, Naval Airman, N. Jervis were picked up by the Vichy French and became prisoners of war.

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Battle of Britain, September 1940 (naval-history.net) Tuesday, 24 September
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Royal Navy (RN) Officers 1939-1945  --  C (unithistories.com)
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Battle of Dakar - Wikipedia

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
25-Feb-2021 23:34	Peter Clarke	Added
26-Feb-2021 10:35	Peter Clarke	Updated [Aircraft type, Narrative]