GULLS MISTAKEN FOR GIRL Appledore, Devon.—At 9.27 in the morning of the 18th of August, 1947, the Westward Ho coastguard reported a girl adrift on a raft in Croyde Bay, and the motor life-boat Violet Armstrong was launched at 9,37 in a light westerly breeze and calm sea.

A later message to the station said that no girl was missing from Croyde, and that what had been seen was gulls on floating wreckage. The life-boat was recalled and arrived back at her station at 10.30.--Rewards, £7 16s..