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An Aeroplane (168)

NOVEMBER 24TH. - THE LIZARD, CORNWALL. At 12.50 P.M. the police telephoned that a German aeroplane had been shot down three miles S.W. of The Lizard.

A westerly wind was blowing, with a moderate sea. The motor life-boat Duke of York was launched at 1.19 P.M., and picked up two German airmen, one dead and the other wounded. The wounded man was landed at once. Then, as it was understood that there had been others in the aeroplane, the lifeboat was launched again, but she found no one and returned to her station at 5.15 P.M.

- Rewards, £14 19s. 6d.