The recent discovery of a Sunderland exposed by a storm at Pembroke Dock is not the first.
During the Christmas, New Year period 1954-5 a severe gale which blew down an avenue of ancient oak trees also brought to the surface a long-lost Sunderland MkIII.
The appearance of one wing and float raised high initially was regarded as an over-night sinking, but closer examination revealed it to have been a Mk III which had sunk at its moorings during WWII, and been forgotten.
This aircraft was beached, but very rapidly ‘reduced to produce’ and departed in BR wagons, probably to reappear as pots and pans.
In “MOTAT” in Auckland there is on display in the Keith Park Memorial Airfield a collection of airframes which include a Lancaster, a Solent Mk IV, and a Sunderland GR Mk V.