AUGUST 13TH. - WEYMOUTH, DORSET.

At 7 A.M. warning was received from the coastguard of an impending air fight. The wind was N.W. and moderate, with a smooth to moderate sea. At 12.15 P.M. an aeroplane was reported down off Whitenose, Weymouth Bay. A few minutes later the motor lifeboat Queen Victoria, on temporary duty at the station, was launched. Half an hour later she was recalled and arrived back at 1.42 P.M. Two minutes previously the coastguard had reported an airman swimming two miles off Osmington, so the life-boat put out again at once. She found nothing, and was recalled, as the airman had been picked up by another vessel. She returned to her station for the second time at 3 P.M. At 4.15 P.M.

two aeroplanes were reported down in West Bay, Portland. Ten minutes later the lifeboat was off again. She found large quantities of wreckage from German aeroplanes, and picked up some of it for identification.

Again the life-boat was recalled and got homefor the third time at 7.30 P.M. - Rewards £4 7s. 6d. and £6 13s.

(See Portland, “ Services by Shore-boats, page 148.).