Just found this account of the Middleton/Nash/Jones night bale-out from a 360 Squadron AS Gannet, well worth reading:-
http://www.aeroclocks.com/images/pic...20OCT%2007.pdf
....it has good info on the aircraft itself also.
Squadron rumour in 849 was that Oboe Jones landed in calm water, deployed his dinghy, opened his emergency rations and was looking for his flares, and then realised the water was fresh. He was in a clay pit and therefore paddled to shore.
Mike