OCTOBER 29TH. - THE HUMBER YORKSHIRE. At about 6 A.M. news was received  from the signal station that a British aeroplane had crashed off North Somercoats. A southerly breeze was blowing and the sea was smooth. The motor life-boat City of Bradford II was launched at 6.30 A.M.

She spoke a patrol vessel, but it had seen nothing. Then, just before daybreak, signals from an aeroplane directed her to the wreckage of an aeroplane. She picked up the body of an airman and took it to Grimsby, returning to her station at 2 P.M. - Permanent paid crew. Rewards, 15s. 9d.