NigG,
Amen to that ! But I'm starting to worry a bit. Walter has been bobbing about with Bob in a cold and wet Mediterranean for five days now, and no word. Hope he's all right - but then son John would tell us if it were not so.
Don't think a VV was ever ditched. The consensus was that it would do so badly because of its shape, and probably dive straight down. Better to bale out and trust to parachute and dinghy. Arthur must have mulled over this possibility a lot, for 84 did many anti-submarine sweeps from around Madras, Ceylon and various places, whereas the other squadrons operated only over land
AFAIK.
Danny.