OCTOBER 8TH. - SENNEN COVE, AND ST. IVES, CORNWALL. At 2.23 P .M.

information was received at Sennen Cove from the coastguard that an aeroplane was down in the sea two hundred yards off Pendeen Lighthouse, and that two men from her were drifting north-east. A strong squally N.W. wind was blowing, with a rough sea, and it had been decided to call out the life-boat instead of the R.A.F. rescue launches. The Sennen Cove motor life-boat The Newbons was launched at 2.34 P.M. and was met by a Lysander aeroplane, which guided her to where two men in “ Mae West ” jackets were floating unconscious. The lifeboat lifeboat took them on board and her crew tried to revive them, but without success. The life-boat also picked up a rubber dinghy dropped from the Lysander. At 5 P.M. the life-boat returned to Sennen Cove, but had to anchor off and wait for the tide. She came into harbour at 6.18 P.M., when the two bodies were landed by a small boat. A letter was received from the resident naval officer at Penzance thanking the crew.

Information of the aeroplane’s crash had been received at St. Ives at 2.12 P.M., and the motor life-boat Caroline Oates Aver and Wiliam Maine had been launched at 2.50 P.M., but on reaching Pendeen she was recalled, and arrived back at her station at 5.40 P.M. - Rewards : Sennen Cove, £17 19s. ; St. Ives, £18 15s. 6d.