MAY 20TH. - ST. DAVID’S, PEMBROKESHIRE.

At about 7.50 P.M. the coastguard reported that an aeroplane had crashed into the sea south of Ramsey Island, and the motor life-boat Civil Service No. 6 was launched at 8.19 P.M. and made for Ramsey Sound. A light N.N.W. wind was blowing and the sea was calm. In the meantime a man who lives on Ramsey Island had seen the crash and had gone to the spot. There he saw a man in the water. He was a Pole, the pilot of a Hurricane, and was swimming in a life-jacket near the cliff. He shouted “ Friend, Pole “. The man helped him out of the water. Meanwhile another man from the island, one of the farm employees, had put out in the island’s boat, and brought her round to the spot. There he found the pilot and his rescuer and took them on board.

He was making with them for Ramsey Sound when he met the life-boat, and she took them on board. The airman was suffering from burns on the face and shock. A doctor attended to him as soon as he was landed, and he was then sent to hospital. Putting out again the life-boat picked up the airman’s parachute in Dillyn Bay, and returned to her station at 10.15 P.M. - Rewards, £8 14s.

(See St. David’s, “ Services by Shoreboats,” page 97.).