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Narragansett Bay, R. I. – July 21, 1943

December 20, 2024

Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island – July 21, 1943

F4U Corsair
US Navy Photo

On July 21, 1943, Sub Lieutenant Derek Charles Newton Lovely, (20), of the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserves, was piloting an F4U Corsair, (Bu. No. JT-138), over the Tiverton area when his aircraft developed an unspecified problem forcing him to bail out. The plane crashed into the water off Tiverton in the area of the “old Stone Bridge”. Sub Lieutenant Lovely bailed out successfully, but his parachute failed to open and he was killed.

Hi was buried in Island Cemetery in Newport, R. I. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/15037587/derek-charles_newton-lovely

Source:

Quonset Point Crash Log, Providence College Library

Tiverton, R.I. – July 4, 1994

February 19, 2021

Tiverton, Rhode Island – July 4, 1994

At 10 a.m. on July 4, 1994, a 42-year-old man took off from the Fall River Airport in a home-built ultralight aircraft and set off for a shoreline flight along Mount Hope Bay towards Rhode Island. Awhile later he turned inland over Horizon Drive in the town of Tiverton. According to a witness, the aircraft was at an altitude of about 350 feet when its engine suddenly stopped. As the plane began to drop the pilot deployed the emergency parachute but it was not enough to slow the plane enough to prevent it from crashing about twenty feet from a home on Horizon Drive. The pilot was killed instantly.

Source: Providence Journal, “Ultralight Plane Crashes In Tiverton; Pilot Killed”, July 5, 1994, page A-1

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