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A Spitfire Aeroplane (4)

MAY 3RD. - BLACKPOOL, AND FLEETWOOD, LANCASHIRE. A British aeroplane had been reported down in the sea six miles west of Blackpool. The Blackpool life-boat could not launch at once as the tractor was engaged in an attempt to salve another aeroplane at St. Anne’s, so the Fleetwood life-boat was launched instead, and later the Blackpool boat also put out, but the pilot of the aeroplane, a Spitfire, had been rescued by a steamer. - Rewards, Blackpool, £5 3s. 6d. ; Fleetwood, £4 8s. 6d..