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A Meteor Aircraft (2)

Cromer, and Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At 11.22 on the morning of the 24th of July, 1952, the Cromer coastguard telephoned the Cromer life-boat station that the R.A.F. at Neatishead had reported a Meteor aircraft as having crashed fifteen miles east of Cromer. At 11.28 the No. 1 life-boat Henry Blogg was launched. The Gorleston coastguard had informed the Great Yarmouth and Gorleston life-boat station of the crash at 11.20, and at 11.30 the life- boat Mary Scott, on temporary duty at the station, was launched. There was a slight swell with a light north-easterly breeze blowing, and both life- boats searched widely with help from an aircraft. Wreckage and human remains were found twenty-one miles east of Cromer by the Henry Blogg, and she guided a R.A.F. rescue launch to them. The R.A.F. then called off the search, and the life-boats returned to their stations, arriving at 7.30 that evening.—Rewards, Cromer, £21; Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, £21 9,v. Qd..