CRASHED AEROPLANE Poole and Bournemouth, Dorset.—At 11.20 in the morning of the 17th of September, 1947, the Swanage coast- guard reported that an aeroplane had crashed into the sea off Bournemouth, and the motor life-boat Thomas Kirk Wright was launched at 11.25. in a south-westerly breeze and calm sea.

A hundred yards south of Bournemouth pier the life-boat found a part of the aeroplane's engine, but that was all.

She gave it to a R.A.F. launch and returned to her station, arriving at 2.45 in the afternoon. The aeroplane, a Spitfire, had dived into the sea while doing a victory roll.-—Rewards, £8 5*..