AUGUST 16TH. - SELSEY, SUSSEX. At 1 P.M. information was received from the coastguard that several aeroplanes had crashed four miles west of Selsey Bill. A light S.W. breeze was blowing, and the sea was smooth. The motor life-boat Canadian Pacific was launched at 1.10 P.M. and arrived on the scene two minutes after a naval launch had rescued two German airmen. She searched, but found nothing else. While she was returning, a seaplane, on the water about three miles to the eastward, signalled for help, and she went. to her to find that there was a naval speed boat, with her, disabled with a rope round her propeller. She also found two dead German airmen and put them on board the seaplane, which then took flight.

The life-boat took the speed boat in tow and returned to her station at 3.30 P.M.- Rewards, £6 3s. 6d..