Date:	Saturday 19 August 1939
Time:	day
Type:	Supermarine Stranraer
Owner/operator:	209 Sqn RAF
Registration:	K7297
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 6
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	North Sea -   United Kingdom
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Felixstowe, Suffolk
Destination airport:
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
Supermarine Stranraer I K7297, 209 Squadron, Felixstowe, Suffolk: Missing 19/8/39 on patrol over the North Sea in bad weather. Aircraft presumed written off (destroyed) and all crew presumed MIA, later KIA:

Flying Officer Arthur Frederick Barber killed
Flying Officer Frederick Ernest Royston King (aged 26) killed
LAC Donald Fulcher (aged 22) killed
AC1 David George Poeten Ash (aged 21) killed
AC1 Walter Joseph Jeckells (aged 19) killed
AC2 Leslie Samuel Freshwater (aged 22) killed

According to the official Air Ministry announcement in 'Flight' magazine (August 31, 1939 page 205 - see link #4):

"FLYING ACCIDENTS
With reference to the disappearance on August 19 of an aircraft of No.209 Squadron, the Air Ministry announces with regret that, as extensive searches have failed to find the aircraft and its occupants, it must now be accepted that the following personnel lost their lives on that date:- F/O (Acting Flt Lt) Frederick Ernest Royston King; F/O Arthur Frederick Barber; L./AC Donald Fulcher; A/C.1 David George Poeten Ash; A/C.1 Walter Joseph Jeckells; A/C.2 Leslie Samuel Freshwater.

F/O (Acting Flt. Lt.) King and F/O Barber were the first and second pilots of the aircraft and LA/C Fulcher, A/C.1 Ash, A/C.1 Jeckells and A/C.2 Freshwater were the other members of the crew."

K7297 was finally struck off charge 26/1/40

1. Royal Air Force Aircraft K1000-K9999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1976 page 59)
2. http://www.rcawsey.co.uk/Acc1939.htm
3. http://www.rafcommands.com/archive/03260.php
4. https://www.flightglobal.com/FlightPDFArchive/1939/1939-1-%20-%200663.PDF

Supermarine Stranraer Mark I K7297 'X' of No. 228 Squadron, taking off from Milford Haven, autumn 1938:

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
01-Apr-2018 16:57	Dr. John Smith	Added
31-Oct-2018 20:11	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Operator]