Dungeness, Kent, and Hastings, Sussex.

—On the evening of the 25th September it was reported by the coastguard that the Imperial Airways aeroplane Boadicea, bound from Croydon to Paris, was missing. She had last been seen passing over Rye. The Dungeness motor life-boat Charles Cooper Henderson was launched at 8.55 P.M., and the Hastings motor life-boat Cyril and Lilian Bishop at 9.5 P.M. They searched all night, but could find no trace of the aeroplane. A moderate westerly breeze was blowing at first, but later this changed to a N.E. gale. The sea was choppy, and there were squalls of heavy rain. The Dungeness life-boat returned to her station at 4.45 A.M., and the Hastings boat to hers at 9.40 A.M.

An increase in the usual money award on the standard scale was granted to each member of the Dungeness crew.

Imperial Airways made a donation of £10 to the Institution and expressed their appreciation to the life-boat crews.—Rewards, Dungeness, £26 2s.; Hastings, £43 8s..