AUGUST 15TH. - MARGATE, KENT. At 3.30 P.M., during an air raid, an aeroplane was seen from the boathouse to crash into the sea some three miles N. by W. of the station. The sea was smooth, with a N.W.

wind. The motor life-boat J. B. Proudfoot, on temporary duty at the station, was launched at 3.35 P.M. She found the tail of a machine above water and an airman three hundred yards away. She took him on board and found him to be German. This information was semaphored to the shore and when the life-boat arrived ashore at 4.15 P.M. the airman was handed over to the authorities.

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