AUGUST 15TH. - BARROW, LANCASHIRE.

At 10.35 in the morning a message was received from Hoylake coastguard that a Blenheim bomber was down off Walney Island, and the motor life-boat N.T. was launched immediately. A light wind was blowing and the sea was slight. The lifeboat found the bomber two miles N.W. of Fort Walney. She also found a rowing boat with one man on board which had put out from Barrow, and a motor boat with two men on board which had put out from Haverigg.

The man in the rowing boat helped the five airmen, one of whom was badly hurt, from the wing of the aeroplane into the life-boat.

The life-boat then took him on board andtook his boat in tow. The engine of the motor boat from Haverigg had broken down, so the life-boat rescued the two men and took the boat in tow. She arrived back at her station at 2.15 in the afternoon and landed the rescued airmen who were taken away in a naval ambulance. - Rewards, £4 19s. 6d.

(See Barrow, “ Services by Shore-boats,” page 100.).