FEBRUARY 9TH. - WICK, CAITHNESSSHIRE.

At 3.50 P . M . the coastguard reported a British aeroplane in difficulties, and a few minutes later the news came that the aeroplane was down in the sea. Her position was given at sixteen miles east of Wick.

A S.W. breeze was blowing, with a choppy sea. The motor life-boat City of Edinburgh was launched at 4.10 P.M., and found an exhausted airman floating on a rubber dinghy.

The life-boat took him on board and then made a thorough search for the two other members of the crew, but could not find them. She arrived back at her station at 8 P.M. - Rewards, £16 9s..