The RAF Flying Boat S1645
The Sandgate coast- guard reported at 1.40 A.M. on the 2nd July that a seaplane was down half a mile S.E. of the coastguard station. A S.W. breeze was blowing, with a slight sea. The motor life-boat Sir William Hillary put out and found the R.A.F. flying-boat S. 1645 three miles W.S.W. of Dover, making for Dover under her own power. The life-boat escorted her into harbour.— Rewards, £3 15s..