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A Wellington Bombing Aeroplane (1)

NOVEMBER 8TH. - AITH, SHETLANDS.

A British Wellington bombing aeroplane had come down in the sea, but the life-boat found nothing, and it was learned later that four airmen had got ashore during the darkness in their rubber dinghy and two had been drowned. - Rewards, £20 4s. 6d.

(See Walls, “ Services by Shore-boats,” 1943, page 57.).