JULY 30TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK. At 6.1 P.M. the flag officer in charge at Great Yarmouth telephoned, through the Cromer coastguard, asking that the life-boat should be sent to help a Walrus aeroplane which had come down in the sea about six miles N.E. of Cromer, and the No. 1 motor lifeboat H. F. Bailey was launched at 6.10 P.M.

The sea was smooth and a light S.E. wind was blowing. The life-boat reached the aeroplane in half an hour, passed a rope to the aeroplane, which had a crew of four, and towed her to the life-boat slipway. Before she arrived the life-boat had had a wireless message saying that the aeroplane was to be kept afloat to await an expert. When he arrived the life-boat put him on board her.

She then cut away some drogue ropes which were foul under water, and took off three of the airmen. The pilot and expert then got the aeroplane into the air again and the lifeboat was rehoused at 8.18 P.M. The three airmen returned, by lorry, to their station.- Rewards, £10 9s. 6d..