Montrose, Angus.—On the afternoon of the 22nd May three officers from the R.A.F. Training School were thrown into the sea by the swamping of their open boat when they were trying to cross the bar at the entrance to the River Southesk. The weather was fine, with a moderate S.E. breeze blowing, but there was a rough sea on the bar. The motor life-boat was off service for overhaul and the surf pulling and sailing life-boat Marianne Atherstone was launched at 3.50 P.M.

One man was picked up unconscious by the life-boat and landed. A search, in which other boats joined, was made for the other two men, but without success, and the life-boat returned at 6 P.M.—Rewards, £13..