JANUARY 10TH. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. At 11.48 A.M. a message was received that an aeroplane had come down in the sea off Brighton Palace Pier.

light N.E. breeze was blowing, with moderate swell. At 12.20 P.M. the motor life-boat Rosa Woodd and Phyllis Lunn was launched, with the Honorary Secretary Captain C. T. Keigwin, R.D., R.N.R., on board, as her crew was short. The life-boat found that the naval aeroplane K.4627 had been made fast to two shore boats, and that the pilot had been rescued. As the shore boats were unable to tow the aeroplane or get it to the surface, the life-boat crew hooked it with a grapnel and, after passing hawser round the tail, towed it to within fifty yards of the beach. The hawser was then passed to helpers on the beach, who hauled in the aeroplane. The life-boat returned to her station at 2.45 P.M. - Rewards, £4 18s. 6d.

(See Brighton, “ Services by Shore-boats," page 143.).