DECEMBER 17TH. - ALDEBURGH, SUFFOLK.

Shortly before 10 A.M. the coastguard reported an object, apparently a boat, about one mile E.S.E. of Sizewell look-out, and the No. 1 motor life-boat Abdy Beauclerk was launched at 10.20 A.M. A light southerly wind was blowing, with a choppy sea.

Guided by smoke bombs dropped by an aeroplane, the life-boat found, a quarter of a mile off shore opposite Sizewell Gap, a German aeroplane’s rubber dinghy, but there was no one on board. The life-boat brought in the dinghy, arriving at 11.40 A.M. - Rewards, £24 1s. 6d..