JUNE 27TH. - DUNGENESS, KENT. At 12.27 P.M. a message was received from the Sandgate coastguard that a Hurricane fighter aeroplane had come down in the sea about six miles S.S.W. of Dungeness. A light westerly breeze was blowing and the sea was smooth. At 12.50 P.M. the motor life-boat Charles Cooper Henderson was launched with a scratch crew, most of the regular crew being away fishing. Women helped to launch her, When the life-boat reached the position given there was no sign of the aeroplane and she continued her search to the south. Two aeroplanes then appeared and led the lifeboat to a position 15 miles S.S.W. of Dungeness.

Here she found an airman, unconscious, but with his head and shoulders above water One of the life-boat crew jumped overboard and put a rope round him and he was got on board the life-boat The crew gave him artificial respiration and this was continued for twenty minutes when one of H.M. speedboats came alongside, and the rescued man was transferred to it and taken to Dover.

The life-boat then returned to her station, arriving at 5 P.M. - Rewards, £8 1s. 6d.