The Lizard, Cornwall.—At 2.23 on the afternoon of the 31st of March, 1955, the life-boat honorary secretary saw an Avenger aircraft, with a crew of four, from the Royal Naval Air Station at Culdrose, crash into the sea half a mile south-west of Lizard Point. He at once sent off a small rowing boat, manned by two members of the life- boat crew and a lighthouse keeper. By this time the remaining crew of the life-boat Duke of York had also as- sembled, and at 2.44 the life-boat was launched in a slight sea. There was a moderate easterly breeze, and the tide was half ebb. The rowing boat found one airman in a rubber dinghy and another man in the sea. She rescued the man from the sea, and then the life-boat arrived and rescued the man in the dinghy. She took on board the men in the rowing boat, took the boat in tow, and made for her station.

A helicopter had reached the position just after the life-boat, but made for the shore again and landed on the cliff-top near the life-boat station. The life-boat came ashore at three o'clock and landed the survivors, who were then taken by the helicopter to Culdrose.

The life-boat put to sea again, searched for the two missing airmen, but did not find them. She reached her station again at 6.10.—Rewards, £20 13s..