MARCH 27TH. - BLACKPOOL, LANCASHIRE. At 11.30 A.M. the coxswain received a telephone message from the RAF. that a Hurricane aeroplane had crashed into the sea opposite the South Promenade, about five miles west, and the motor life-boat Sarah Ann Austin was launched at 11.50 A.M. A fresh S.W. wind was blowing, but the sea was smooth and it was raining. The life-boat reached the spot, guided by flares dropped by aeroplanes, and found a mass of wreckage. She picked up some of the wreckage, and on her return at 3.30 P.M. handed it over to the R.A.F.- Rewards, £7 14s..