MARCH 29TH. - BALLYCOTTON, CO. CORK. At 10.30 in the morning the honorary secretary was on watch on the cliffs above Ballycotton when he saw a steam trawler about eight and a half miles south of Ballycotton. She was blowing off steam, as if she were hauling in her trawl.

Then he saw three aeroplanes circling round, about 60 feet above her. They dropped from six to nine bombs, and the trawler suddenly disappeared. The aeroplanes circled the water once more and then flew away. The honorary secretary at once called out the motor life-boat Mary Stanford, and she was launched at 10.40. A fresh wind was blowing, with a rough sea. She reached the spot where the trawler had sunk at 11.35, but there was no sign of any survivors nor even of any wreckage. She returned to her station, arriving at 2.15 in the afternoon. - Rewards, £6 17s. 6d.