A PRIVATE AEROPLANE CRASHES St. David's, Pembrokeshire.—At 8.15 on the night of the 15th of August, 1947, a resident telephoned that her husband had taken off in his aeroplane, with the life-boat's assistant motor mechanic as a passenger, but the aeroplane had been lost to sight. The motor life-boat Civil Service No. 6 was launched at 8.40, in a light north-easterly breeze with a calm sea and found that the aerop ane, an Auster Autocrat, had crashed into the sea off Gull Rock. The two men had climbed on the rock. The pas- senger swam to the life-boat and was hauled aboard exhausted. The life- boat then took the pilot off the rock and returned to her station, arriving at 10.40 that night.—Rewards, £8 4*..