Swanage, Dorset.—• At 3.28 in the afternoon, on the 16th of April, 1950, the coastguard telephoned a message from the Portland radar station that an aeroplane had crashed into the sea.

The pilot had dropped by parachute seven and a half miles south of Durlston Head. At 3.44 the life-boat R.L.P.

was launched in a light south-south- east breeze with a calm sea. She was guided to the pilot, eight miles south- by-west of Durlston Head, by circling aeroplanes; here she rescued him, trans- ferred him to a motor torpedo boat and returned to her station, arriving at 7.30 that evening.—Rewards, £11 7s..