SEPT. 9TH. - MARGATE, KENT, AND SOUTHEND-ON-SEA, ESSEX. An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea off Leysdown. The Margate life-boat was launched just after eleven at night in a thick fog and reached Leysdown two hours and twenty minutes later. Owing to the fog she anchored until 5.15 in the morning and then made a search, but found nothing. Meanwhile the Southend-on-Sea life-boat had been launched at 11.30 and had searched a wide area. The two life-boats met at 6.30 next morning. At 7.50 a morse signal from the RAF was received to say that all were saved. The Margate life-boat reached her station at 10.30 in the morning, and the Southend-on-Sea at 8.50. - Rewards : Margate, £18 12s. ; Southend-on-Sea, £18 3s.

(See “ Services by Shore-boats,” Herne Bay, page 97.).