Barry Dock, Glamorganshire. — At 11.20 in the morning of the 17th of April, 1948, the Royal Naval Signal Station at Nells Point telephoned that an aeroplane had crashed about one and a half miles south-east of the point.

The motor life-boat Rachel and Mary Evans was launched at 11.40, in a fresh easterly breeze with a choppy sea, and carried out a wide search in which a R.A.F. rescue launch and the Cardiff pilot cutter also took part. All that the life-boat found was clothing and wreckage. With these on board she returned to her station, arriving at 2.10 in the afternoon.—Rewards, £8 9s..