APRIL 23RD. - ST. IVES, CORNWALL.

At 6.41 A.M. a message was received from the St. Agnes coastguard that a Hurricane aeroplane had crashed into the sea one and a half miles N.E. by N. from Portreath, and at 7.38 A.M. the motor life-boat Caroline Oates Aver and William Maine was launched. A light S.E. breeze was blowing and the sea was smooth. The life-boat found nothing, and returned to her station at 11.27 A.M., but shortly afterwards she went out again as another message had come that the airman had again been seen. An aeroplane helped in the search, and the airman was found, but he was dead. The life-boat, brought his body ashore, and returned to her station at 2.40 P.M. - Rewards, £7 14s..