Penlee, Cornwall.—About 3.18 in the afternoon of the 19th of September, 1949, the Penzer Point coastguard tele- phoned that Culdrose Air Station had reported a crashed Firefly aeroplane, three miles south of Penzer Point. A Sea Otter rescue seaplane had landed near her and could not take off again.

The life-boat W. and S. was launched at 3.40 in a choppy sea, with a light south- easterly breeze blowing, and stood by the seaplane as she taxied across Mounts Bay. Five miles west of The Lizard a R.A.F. rescue launch took her in tow and headed for Helford River.

The services of the life-boat were therefore no longer required. She was recalled to her station, arriving at 6 o'clock in the evening. The pilot of the Firefly was rescued by a trawler.

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