Date:	Wednesday 3 July 1940
Time:	afternoon
Type:	Blackburn Skua II
Owner/operator:	803 Sqn FAA RN
Registration:	L2891
MSN:	-
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Mediterranean Sea off Oran City, -   Algeria
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	-
Departure airport:	HMS Ark Royal
Destination airport:	-

Narrative:
803 Sqn. Fleet Air Arm, Royal Navy, Blackburn Skua L2891 "A7-M", operating from the aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal, ditched into the sea due to fuel shortage while providing air cover to the Royal Navy bombardment of the Vichy France Naval Fleet, anchored in Mers-el-Kebir Harbour, just to the west of the French Algerian port of Oran on the Mediterranean Sea.
The two aircrew, Pilot, Petty Officer, Harold Aloysius Glover and Air Gunner, Naval Airman, P. A. Burkey were picked up by Royal Navy destroyer.

SKUA!: The Royal Navy's Dive-Bomber - Peter C. Smith - Google Books
Royal Navy Casualties, killed and died, July 1940 (naval-history.net)
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/RoyalNavyFleetAirArmDatabase/?q=Air+Gunner&o=Aircraft&d=asc
Blackburn Skua (2) (valka.cz)
A History of the Mediterranean Air War, 1940–1945: Volume Three: Tunisia and ... - Christopher Shores, Giovanni Massimello, Russell Guest, Frank Olynyk, Winfried Bock - Google Books
HMS Ark Royal, British aircraft carrier, WW2 (naval-history.net)
British Modern Military History Society • Mers el Kebir: Sinking the French Fleet (bmmhs.org)

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
19-Dec-2020 23:21	Peter Clarke	Added