A bit of thread creep, but many years ago in Port Harcourt Nigeria, Barny Swinton Bland flying a Whirlwind series 111 on floats, went down with vibration from a lifting blade pocket. He was floating around in the swamps until we got a crew out to him and changed the blade.
The old blade was dumped, and everyone got back safely. A few days later, while flying over the same area, it was observed that the local village had retrieved the blade, and it was mounted on trestles and being used as a fish gutting table. Its probably still there.