Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin.—At 3.30 on the afternoon of the 15th of July. 1955.

the Civic Guard at Dalkey reported that a private aircraft with a crew of two had crashed in Killiney Bay. At 3.48 the life-boat Dunleary II put out.

The sea was smooth, there was a light south-easterly breeze, and the tide was flooding. The life-boat found the air- craft in twenty feet of water near the shore, grappled her and beached her, and then returned to her station, arriving at 7.15. One of the crew of the aircraft lost his life.—Rewards to the crew, £9 16s.; rewards to the helpers on shore, etc., £2 11s..