OCTOBER 12TH. - NEWQUAY, CORNWALL.

At 12.39 in the afternoon the coastguard reported that an aeroplane had come down in the sea 3 1/2 miles S.W. of Towan Head, and the motor life-boat Richard Silver Oliver was launched at one o’clock. A light S.W. wind was blowing, with a slight ground swell.

Mr. E. H. Trembath, the honorary secretary of the station, went with her as signalman, and by morse lamp kept in touch with a Lysander aeroplane which was circling over the spot where the aeroplane had come down.

In 25 minutes the life-boat was on the spot, and found six airmen in their dinghy. She rescued them and brought them ashore at 1.52 P.M. - Rewards, £23 6s. 6d..