JANUARY 29TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK.

At 9.31 A.M. the naval base at Great Yarmouth reported, through the coastguard, that an airman could be seen in a dinghy to the N.N.E. A light wind was then blowing from E.N.E., but it increased to a strong wind, with a rough sea and snow squalls. At 9.45 the No. 1. motor life-boat H. F. Bailey was launched and searched without success. Then at 12.13 P.M. she received a wireless message that a Spitfire was circling over the dinghy, and that it was seven miles north of Cley. At the same time another Spitfire circled over the life-boat and guided her to the place. There the life-boat found and rescued the airman, but the weather was too rough for her to get back on the slipway at Cromer, so she made for Great Yarmouth, arriving at 6.20 P.M. A letter of thanks was received from the Director - General of Aircraft Safety.- Rewards, £33 1s.