Date:	Wednesday 24 April 1940
Time:	c.
Type:	Supermarine Walrus Mk I
Owner/operator:	700 Sqn FAA RN
Registration:	L2316
MSN:	-
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	At sea off Fair Isle, Dunrossness, Shetland Islands, Scotland, -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RNAS Hatston, Kirkwall, Orkney Islands, Scotland
Destination airport:	RNAS Hatston, Kirkwall, Orkney Islands, Scotland

Narrative:
700 Sqn. Fleet Air Arm, Royal Navy, Walrus L2316 operating from from RNAS Hatston, Orkney Islands, Scotland went missing on an Anti-submarine patrol off Fair Isle, Shetland Islands, Scotland (it was reported that enemy aircraft were operating in the area at the time). The three aircrew, Pilot, Petty Officer, Cyril Leonard Smeathers; Observer, Midshipman, Paul Lorraine Furber and Air Gunner, Naval Airman Charles Edwin Adams were lost with the aircraft.

Royal Navy casualties, killed and died, April 1940 (naval-history.net)
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/RoyalNavyFleetAirArmDatabase/?q=Air+Gunner&o=Aircraft&d=asc
Walrus I  L2316 [Royal Air Force Aircraft Serial and Image Database] RAFCommands.com
Supermarine Walrus PROFILE.pdf (seawings.co.uk)
RAFCommands Forums
http://forum.12oclockhigh.net/archive/index.php?t-46064.html

Other occurrences involving this aircraft

20 May 1939	L2308	712 Sqn FAA RAF	1	The Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Maine,		w/o
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
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
22-Jan-2021 16:26	Peter Clarke	Added