Wellingtons in the Med

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  1. Trackfrower

    Trackfrower Member

    Has anyone written a book about the Torpedo Wellingtons (Fishingtons) in the Med.
    Plenty on the Beauforts, Beaufighters and Blenheims
     
  2. CL1

    CL1 116th LAA and 92nd (Loyals) LAA,Royal Artillery

  3. Trackfrower

    Trackfrower Member

    They get a mention, briefly, in many books, but they did not have their own Roy Nesbit!
     
  4. CL1

    CL1 116th LAA and 92nd (Loyals) LAA,Royal Artillery

    Get writting then
     
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  5. Tricky Dicky

    Tricky Dicky Don'tre member

    Few and far between probably

    Vickers Wellington - Wikipedia
    Type 455 Wellington GR Mark XII
    Maritime version of B Mark X armed with torpedoes and with a chin radome housing the ASV Mark III radar, single nose machine gun, 58 built at Weybridge and Chester.

    THE TORPEDO-BOMBERS ATTACK | NZETC
    Trials were therefore begun over the Red Sea to modify this aircraft into a torpedo-bomber, and the Air Ministry was finally convinced that these aircraft could form a highly efficient striking force.

    Radar-equipped Wellingtons, loaded with parachute flares, patrolled the shipping lanes for up to ten hours throughout the night. Sighting reports were sent to base, and a striking force of torpedo-Wellingtons was homed on to the target convoy by continual position signals and by direction-finding radio.
    The search-Wellingtons, popularly known as ‘Snoopingtons’


    TD

    You not only have 'fishingtons' you now have 'snoopingtons'
     
  6. alieneyes

    alieneyes Senior Member

  7. Tricky Dicky

    Tricky Dicky Don'tre member

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    BRITISH AIRCRAFT IN ROYAL AIR FORCE SERVICE, 1939-1945: VICKERS WELLINGTON.
    Object description
    Two Wellington Mark ICs, Z8797 ‘A’ and Z9095 ‘D’, of No. 38 Squadron RAF, in flight over the Western Desert, probably while based at Shallufa, Egypt. These aircraft were specially converted for use as torpedo bomber/minelayers by the Squadron.


    No. 38 Squadron (RAF) during the Second World War
    In January 1942 the squadron became part of No. 201 Group. In January-February 1942 the squadron was trained to carry out night torpedo attacks on enemy shipping in the Mediterranean, a duty it carried out from March to October 1942. The end of Axis resistance in North Africa meant that the unit had to fly further afield to find its targets, attacking enemy ships along the coasts of Italy and the Balkans.


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  8. Trackfrower

    Trackfrower Member

    Snoopingtons also known as Goofingtons
     
  9. Ewen Scott

    Ewen Scott Well-Known Member

  10. Ewen Scott

    Ewen Scott Well-Known Member

    In 1942 the Wellingtons in use as torpedo bombers were initially converted bomber Mark Ic and III and the ASV.II radar equipped Mk.VIII. These were in 38, 221 and 458 squadrons in the Med from Jan 1942.

    The centimetric ASV.III in the chin radome didn’t begin to reach the Wellington until the end of 1942 in trial form and then March 1943 in operational form with U.K. based squadrons.
     
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  11. Orwell1984

    Orwell1984 Senior Member

    There isn't a good 38 Squadron RAF history but another that used torpedo Wellingtons was 458 Squadron RAF and they have a good squadron history:
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