OCTOBER 16TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK.

At 5.30 A.M. messages were received from the coastguard that an aeroplane had caught fire and crashed into the sea a quarter of a mile off Happisburgh Beach, and at 5.46 A.M. the No. 1 motor life-boat H. F. Bailey was launched. There was a moderate S.W.

breeze, with a slight sea. The life-boat found parts of an aeroplane, thought to be a British Beaufighter, and the shattered body of one of the crew. She brought back his remains and returned to her station at 10 A.M. - Rewards, £19 8s. 6d..