Date:	Saturday 20 May 1939
Time:	c.
Type:	Supermarine Walrus Mk I
Owner/operator:	712 Sqn FAA RAF
Registration:	L2308
MSN:	-
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 3
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	The Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Maine, -   United States of America
Phase:	Landing
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	Cruiser HMS Glasgow
Destination airport:	Cruiser HMS Glasgow
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
712 Sqn. FAA Royal Navy, Supermarine Walrus L2308, lost a float when landing, capsized and sank on Saturday 30th May 1939, when returning to its mother ship, cruiser HMS Glasgow, following an exercise off the coast of Maine USA . The aircrew were rescued but Telegraphist / Air Gunner, Able Seaman, Leslie Newman Goy died of exposure and shock after rescuing his pilot, he was subsequently buried at sea.

Cruisers HMS Glasgow and HMS Southampton (with their catapult launched Supermarine Walrus aircraft), escorted, from the 17th May to 15th June 1939, the RMS Empress of Australia, outbound to Canada and RMS Empress of Britain, on the return to Britain, the Royal Tour of Canada, by the newly crowned King George VI and Queen Elizabeth.

Newspapers.com - Historical Newspapers from 1700s-2000s
Daily News- New York - Tuesday 23rd May 1939
The Evening Sun - Pennsylvania - Tuesday 23rd May 1939
Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm Flying Personnel 1939 - 1947 (aircrewremembered.com)
RAF crash in Maine in 1938 (rafcommands.com)
HMS Glasgow (C21) - Wikipedia
Roll of Honour - Cambridgeshire - Little Thetford (roll-of-honour.com)
HM Submarine Thetis, died, and other Royal Navy casualties, 1939 (naval-history.net)
Crash of a Supermarine Walrus I off Maine | Bureau of Aircraft Accidents Archives (baaa-acro.com)
1939 royal tour of Canada - Wikipedia
Sqn Histories 712-825_P (rafweb.org)

nepa the FAA was RAF until 24/05/39 when it was taken over by the Admiralty (RN). Nn

Other occurrences involving this aircraft

31 October 1939	L2261	711 Sqn FAA RN	3	Missing off South Africa		mis
13 December 1939	K8341	718 Sqn FAA RN	0	off the River Plate, South America		w/o
13 December 1939	K8343	718 Sqn FAA RN	0	off the River Plate, South America		w/o
18 January 1940	P5648	712 Sqn FAA RN	2	Bishop Briggs, 3 miles north of Glasgow, Scotland,		w/o
24 April 1940	L2316	700 Sqn FAA RN	3	At sea off Fair Isle, Dunrossness, Shetland Islands, Scotland,		w/o
9 May 1940	L2225	765 Sqn FAA RN	1	The Solent/Southampton Water, Hampshire, England,		w/o
18 May 1940	P5647	700 Sqn FAA RN	2	Malangen Fjord, 32 miles south west of Tromsø,		w/o
7 September 1940	-	765 Sqn FAA RN	2	English Channel, 8 miles south of Anvil Point, Swanage, Dorset,		w/o
25 September 1940	L2247	9 Sqn RAAF	3	South Atlantic Ocean off Dakar,		w/o
1 March 1942	L2319	9 Sqn RAAF	4	6 miles NE of Tanjung Pujut, Java		w/o
9 August 1942	P5715	9 Sqn RAAF	0	7 miles SE of Savo Island, Central		w/o

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
07-Mar-2008 22:37	JINX	Added
22-Jan-2012 15:12	Nepa	Updated [Operator]
03-Aug-2013 12:15	JINX	Updated [Operator, Source]
19-Oct-2018 13:34	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Operator]
28-Jul-2020 08:56	Cobar	Updated [Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Source]
07-Jan-2021 20:42	Anon.	Updated [Operator, Operator]
18-Feb-2021 19:11	Peter Clarke	Updated [Time, Cn, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
19-Feb-2021 13:26	Peter Clarke	Updated [Narrative]