SEPTEMBER 5TH. - MARGATE, KENT.

At about 3.30 P.M. a telephone message was received from the coastguard that an aeroplane had crashed into the sea about two hundred yards west of the Hook Beacon. A light S.S.E. wind was blowing, with a smooth sea. The motor life-boat J. B. Proudfoot, on temporary duty at the station, left at 3.35 P.M. The honorary secretary, Mr. A. C.

Robinson, was on board. She found the wreckage of a German aeroplane, and brought it ashore for identification. - Rewards, £5 12s. 6d.

(See Herne Bay, “Services by Shore-boats”, page 150.).