NOVEMBER 23RD. - KIRKCUDBRIGHT.

At 1.15 P.M. the Portpatrick coastguard reported that fire and smoke had been seen some miles S.S.W. of Ravenshall Point, and fifteen minutes later the Isle of Whithorn coastguard reported that an aeroplane had crashed three miles off Garliestown. The motor life-boat Morison Watson was launched at 2P.M . A moderate S. W . wind was blowing, with a slight sea. An R.A.F. speed boat had already gone out, had found wreckage and had picked up the bodies of two American airmen. When the life-boat arrived she helped in a further search, and found blue prints and four cylinders, which later she handed over to the R.A.F. at Gibbhill. The speed boat had now received an order by wireless to take the bodies to Whithorn. As she did not know the passage the life-boat coxswain went aboard to pilot her, and the two boats made for Whithorn.

After the bodies had been landed they returned to their stations, the life-boat arriving at 6.45 P.M. - Rewards, £12 9s. 3d..