AIRCRAFT CRASHED Appledore, and Clovelly, Devon.

At 12.21 p.m. on iyth February, 1964, the coastguard told the Appledore honorary secretary that an aircraft had crashed into the sea four to seven miles north of Hartland Point. There was a light eastnorth- easterly breeze with a moderate sea, and the tide was ebbing. The lifeboat Louisa Anne Hawker launched at 12.35. Ten minutes later the Clovelly honorary secretary was informed of the crash but soon after 12.55, when the Clara and Emily Barwell life-boat was being launched, the coastguard advised that the boat's assistance was no longer needed. The Appledore life-boat continued to search the area until 2.21, was then recalled, and reached her station at 5.30..