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An Aeroplane (34)

MARCH 12TH. - GALWAY BAY. A British aeroplane had crashed in Galway Bay, and the five members of her crew had baled out.

Two of them were found, but the others seemed to have been blown far out to sea, and the motor life-boat K.E.C.F. was called out at 3.15 in the morning. She reached the scene of the crash at 6.30, and there she found pieces of the aeroplane, two service caps, a helmet, a fur coat, a parachute, and oil on the water, but there was no sign of the men, and after searching for five hours the life-boat returned to her station, arriving at one in the afternoon. - Rewards, £19 15s. 6d.