Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire.—At 5.43 in the afternoon of the 18th of May, 1948, the coastguard reported that an aeroplane had crashed into the sea twenty miles east of Kinnaird, and the motor life-boat John and Charles Ken- nedy was launched at 5.53. A light south-easterly breeze was blowing and the sea was calm, but there was a dense fog. The life-boat made an extensive search. She found no trace of the aeroplane, a Seafire, and returned to her station at 12.45 the next morning.

The fog was still thick and the crewstood by until mid-day in readiness to resume their search if visibility im- proved. At 6.30 that evening, the 19th, a wireless message was received that the Aberdeen trawler Viking Star had recovered the pilot's body and that she was asking for the life-boat. The John and Charles Kennedy again put out, in a light southerly breeze with a calm sea, met the trawler at the harbour entrance and took the airman's body on board She arrived back at her station at 7.50.—Rewards, First Service, £22 Is 6d.; Second Ser- vice, £4 19s..