Skegness, Lincolnshire.—At 3.32 in the afternoon of the 18th of April, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that two Sabre aeroplanes of the R.C.A.F.

had collided near the Wainfleet bomb- ing range and that a parachute had been seen to come down. The life- boat Anne Allen was launched at four o'clock in a smooth sea with a light south-easterly breeze blowing.

She found one of the pilots in a rubber dinghy about three miles south-east of Gibraltar Point, rescued him and put him aboard an' Air Sea Rescue launch. She then returned to her station at 7.20 that evening.—Re- wards, £13 6s.—The Royal Canadian Air Force sent their thanks..