MARCH 17TH. - REDCAR, YORKSHIRE.

At about 9.50 A.M the coastguard reported that an R.A.F. Lockheed Hudson aeroplane was down in the sea about two miles north of Redcar look-out, and the motor life-boat Louisa Polden was launched at 10.37 A.M.

A moderate southerly wind was blowing and the sea was smooth. All she found was a dead body. An R.A.F. speed boat and a motor boat also went out and found severalbodies. The life-boat returned to her station at 12.45 P.M. - Rewards, £10 9s. 6d.

(See Teesmouth, “ Services by shore-boats,” page 64.).