I was searching the internet the other day for any new information about HMS Spurwing and found these images released into the public domain by the Imperial War Museum. The photograph above is a Fairey Fulmar aircraft of the Fleet Air Arm about to take off from HMS Spurwing on a coastal reconnaissance. This photograph shows two of the naval station's Boulton Paul Defiant aircraft in flight after taking off from HMS Spurwing. On Wednesday 5th April 1944, my dad wrote in his diary: "Went in H.S. 599 on Radar test with Dick doing a W/T [Wireless Telegraphy] test at the same time. Felt some nasty quakes when the pilot went into a corkscrew dive over the harbour but otherwise unimportant. Pleased to write that I am no longer troubled by air sickness." I particularly like this photo because I can imagine my dad up there in the clouds. I don't think this would have been the plane he went in but it gives something tangible to the diary extract. Protect