MAY 7TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.

At about 5 A.M. the Royal Naval Shore Signal Station informed the coxswain that the pilot cutter, at anchor off the lifeboat house, had reported an aeroplane down about one and a half miles to the N.N.E.

in The Gut. She had struck a barrage balloon cable, when returning from a bombing raid on Germany. Later the pilot cutter reported that she had picked up one survivor in a rubber boat, which was drifting past her.

The motor life-boat City of Bradford II put out at 5.40 A.M. A strong N.E. breeze was blowing, with a moderately rough sea. At about daybreak the life-boat picked up two dead airmen about two miles S.W. of Spurn Point, and put the bodies on board the patrol boat Perfective, to be taken to Grimsby. The life-boat then found the aeroplane in four feet of water on the Trinity Sand, but there were no other survivors, and she returned to her station at 12.20 P.M. - Paid permanent crew. Rewards, 4s. 6d..