AUG. 10TH. - MARGATE, KENT. Just after midnight the officer in charge of troops on the jetty informed the coxswain that he could hear calls for help from the water.

The night was very dark. An air raid was in progress and bombs were falling. The coxswain at once mustered his crew and the motor life-boat J. B. Proudfoot, on temporary duty at the station, was launched at 12.25 A.M. Half a mile off shore the life-boat found a British pilot who was nearing collapse, but was kept afloat by his life-belt.

She picked him up, and he was given rum and every attention. The life-boat landed him at 12.45 A.M. and put out for a further search. She found nothing and was rehoused at 1.30 A.M. - Rewards, £11 5s.