APRIL 20TH. - MARGATE, KENT. At 2 P.M. a message was received from the coastguard that two aeroplanes were in the sea, and that one airman had come down by parachute, and at 2.10 P.M. the motor life-boat The Lord Southborough (Civil Service No. 1) was launched. A light S.S.W. breeze was blowing and the sea was choppy. An RAF.

launch from Ramsgate arrived first and, the life-boatmen thought, rescued two airmen.

The life-boat picked up a rubber boat which had been dropped from another aeroplane, and returned to her station, arriving at 4.20 P.M. The rubber boat was handed over to the R.A.F. - Rewards, £5 12s. 6d..