AUGUST 23RD. - PORT ERIN, ISLE OF MAN At 11.35 A.M. information was received through the police that a British aeroplane was in the sea off Dalby. A moderate westerly breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea. At 12.10 P.M. the motor life-boat Matthew Simpson was launched.

Helped by aircraft, she found an airman from the aeroplane which had actually come down about a mile outside Fleshwick Bay. The airman was unconscious, and as a R.A.F.

boat had now arrived the life-boat made at once for Port Erin, her crew using every effort to revive the airman, but he was dead.

At 2 P.M. the life-boat, put out again to make another search for survivors. She had a medical officer and Mr. T. C. Coole, the honorary secretary of the station on board.

She picked up another airman, but he too was dead. She continued her search, but found nothing more, and returned to her station at 3.40 P.M. - Rewards, £5 8s. 6d..