Portpatrick, Wigtownshire. At 2.50 p.m. on i6th May, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that an aircraft had crashed into the sea seven miles north-north-west of Portpatrick.

The life-boat Edward Z. Dresden, on temporary duty at the station, put out at 3.5 in a light south-easterly breeze and a slight sea. The life-boat carried out a search in conjunction with H.M.S.

Duncan and a helicopter. No survivors were found but wreckage picked up by the life-boat was handed over to the Duncan. The life-boat returned to her station at 8.40 p.m..