PILOT BALED OUT Workington, Cumberland. At 1.48 p.m. on 22nd July, 1965, the Workington coastguard was told by the coastguard at Formby that the pilot of a Lightning aircraft had baled out twelve miles west of St. Bees Head. At 2.6 the life-boat Manchester and Salford XXIX was launched with the bowman in command.

There was a light south-westerly wind, the sea was smooth and the tide was flooding. The life-boat made for the position, but the aircraft's crew of two were picked up by a helicopter. The lifeboat salvaged two dinghies and other gear from the wreckage of the aircraft and returned to her station at 8 p.m. The Barrow and Ramsey life-boats also launched to assist in the search..