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An Aeroplane (64)

AUGUST 20TH. - HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY.

At 3.27 P.M. the coastguard reported that a British aeroplane had crashed, and the Belgian motor life-boat Ministre Anseele, from the reserve fleet, on temporary duty at the station, was launched at 3.40 P.M. A strong S.W. wind was blowing, with a rough sea. The life-boat found the wreckage of an aeroplane off the South Stack, and the bodies of two airmen. She took them on board, and arrived back at her station at 6.15 P.M. - Rewards, £2 10s.