Finds and UXBs!

Nice find....
www.eadt.co.uk/news/harwich_wwii_bomb_found_off_coast_1_1335075

It may be only the remains of the body and motor or the warhead could be in the mud.

The Royal Navy are responsible for UXBs found on or below the Low Water Mark.

Well over a thousand V2 are recorded as 'incoming' on British records.

The best thing I ever found was this:



While recording the remains of Elstow Ordnance Depot.



The sole surviving remains of the UK's first atomic bomb - Blue Danube! It weighs in at 4 tons, and has a fissue core inside?
A mystery surrounds its purpose in the program? But it caused quite a stir amongst the historians at AWRE! Someone saw my photo and recognised it for what it was! It was recovered by the guys at Sywell Aviation Museum, where it now resides.





It sits on the tyre simply because part of it has crumbled away, and this is the only way to display it, apparently!

That device is however a mock-up:

www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld/objects/Ycm_vFKhQHOnipak_UHL2w

A V2 rocket has been discovered off-shore at Harwich, Essex. This is the first complete example found since WW2. A large sea area has been excluded to all others while the bomb disposal squad try to make it safe. This may take about three days. Local fishermen used the tip as a holding-area?

We had some "artifacts" delivered to our work place once, the Army sent us 43 pages of detailed battle plans to our fax. Why go looking when you can have it delivered?

Carnaby;100168 wrote:

That device is however a mock-up:

www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld/objects/Ycm_vFKhQHOnipak_UHL2w

Shame that the BBC article does not acknowledge that, without British technical information and loaned expertise, Fat Man would have been ready much later and the War against Japan could have had a different ending. Post-war the USA refused to share technical information on the development of nuclear weapons and Britain opted to go her own way hence Blue Danube. Progress thereafter was so fast that aerial dropped bombs became smaller and lighter in just a few years matching the shift from strategic to tactical requirements.

Hi,
I attach 3 pics (in theory at least, I can NEVER upload pics), I found both items on Mepal Airfield in the 1980s.
If the pics don't work, the first is aluminium with the AM crown and 5d/927.
The second is bakelite with a brass/alloy cap with 5D/926, there are 2 small buttons on the underside with plus and minus and another ref 5D/610.
Does anyone know what they are?
Thanks
Martin

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My rusty 'plumbers' brain almost recognises the first item! It is definitely an item of Armament Electrical Equipment related (I feel sure) to bomb carriers.

The 5D/927 is an old RAF Section and Reference. These were listed in the Stores 'bible' Air Publication 1086. Section 5D is Armament Electrical items

5D/927 is a Type C Arming Unit, which slides onto the bomb carrier and contains a solenoid to hold or release the fuze arming wire.
The other item is a version of the standard RAF multi-pin aircraft plug socket, the other end of the cable from the arming unit would have fitted into one of thses mounted either on the aircraft or on the bomb carrier.

All the best,
PB