St. David's, and Angle, Pembrokeshire.

At. 10.15 on the morning of the 17th of February, 1953, the St. David's coastguard asked if the St. David's life- boat would search for the pilot of a Sea Hornet aircraft who, it was thought, might have taken to a rubber dinghy after his machine had crashed the previous afternoon off St. Ann's Head. At 10.45 the life-boat Cioil Service No. 6 was launched and began to search. The Tenby coastguard informed the Angle life-boat station, and at 11.15 the life-boat Elizabeth Elson was also launched. Both lifeboats searched in a light westerly breeze with a moderate sea, but no trace of the pilot was seen, and they returned to their stations, Angle arriv- ing at seven o'clock and St. David's at 7.15. A donation to the funds of the Institution was received from the owners of the aircraft.—Rewards: St. Davids, £22 2s.; Angle, £27 18s..