Date:	Wednesday 15 January 1941
Time:	22:46
Type:	Armstrong Whitworth Whitley Mk V
Owner/operator:	58 Sqn RAF
Registration:	N1521
MSN:	GE-J
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 5
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Zwanenwater (lake), Callantsoog, Noord-Holland -   Netherlands
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Linton-on-Ouse, Yorkshire
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Crew:
Pilot : Pilot Officer William Edgar Peers RAFVR 88011 [Killed] (NCO:742033 Commission Gazetted : Friday 20 December, 1940)
2nd Pilot : Sergeant Howard Piper Shipley RAFVR 742481 [Killed]
Wireless Operator : Pilot Officer Melville Percy Griffiths RAFVR 81939 [Killed] (NCO:748169 Commission Gazetted : Tuesday 06 August, 1940)
Front Gunner : Sergeant Robert James Couser DFM RAFVR 965050 [Killed]
Rear Gunner : Sergeant Robert Fortune Jamieson Duncan RAF 641010 [Killed]

Took off from RAF Linton-on-Ouse @ 1755 hrs for an operation to Wilhelmshaven, Germany. Heard on W/T @ 2145 hrs but shot down by a night-fighter (Oblt Egmont Prinz zur Lippe-Weissenfeld, 4./NJG 1, flying Bf 110C G9+EM from Bergen airfield) and crashed at 2246 hrs between the Zwanenwater lake and Callantsoog (Noord Holland), below the Den Helder, Holland. It is further reported that the night-fighter was being radar-controlled by Lt Jauk at Station Hering not far from Den Helder.

https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=&date=&location=&pn=N1521&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part one
http://www.nfla.nl/N1521.html
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1941.
book 'Vliegvelden in Oorlogstijd'
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database

Other occurrences involving this aircraft

24 September 1940	N1470	58 Sqn RAF	3	New Farm, ½ a mile north of RAF Linton on Ouse, England		w/o
8 September 1941	Z6836	58 Sqn RAF	5	west of Neuenkirchen, Nordrhein-Westfalen (claim location)		w/o
27 December 1941	Z9210	58 Sqn RAF	5	Repelerstraße street in Moers, Nordrhein-Westfalen		w/o

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
17-Dec-2008 11:45	ASN archive	Added
02-Sep-2014 13:09	gerard57	Updated [Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
18-Mar-2016 19:42	Red Dragon	Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Source, Narrative]
26-Mar-2016 19:07	HB	Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Operator, Departure airport]
11-Jan-2019 12:05	TigerTimon	Updated [Other fatalities, Location, Source, Narrative]
11-Jan-2019 12:06	TigerTimon	Updated [Narrative]
20-Jun-2022 22:15	Ron Averes	Updated [Location]
15-Jan-2024 07:52	Rob Davis	Updated [Source, Narrative]