Margate, Kent, and Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 1.30 on the afternoon of the 21st of January, 1954, the Margate coastguard told the Margate life-boat station that No. 19 Group R.A.F. at Plymouth had reported that a Meteor aircraft had crashed off the Isle of Sheppey, and that her crew of two had baled out. The life-boat North Fore- land, Civil Service No. XI was launched at 1.40. The Southend-on-Sea coast- guard also informed the Southend-on- Sea life-boat station, and at 1.45 the life-boat Greater London, Civil Service No. 3 was also launched. The sea was moderate, and a fresh breeze was blow- ing from the east. A helicopter took part in the search, saw a parachute in the sea one and a half miles north of Whitstable, and told the Margate life- boat by radio telephone. The life- boat made for the position, but a fast launch from Sheerness, which had also joined the search, rescued a badly injured man. The life-boat picked up the parachute and searched for the other survivor. She picked up some wreckage and continued the search in company with the Southend-on-Sea life-boat, but they found nothing more. The Margate life-boat reached her station again at 9.22 and the Southend-on-Sea life-boat at eight o'clock.—Rewards: Margate £36 7s. 6d.; Southend-on-Sea, £13 10s..