AUGUST 9TH . - NEWQUAY, CORNWALL.

At 12.29 in the afternoon a message was received from the coastguard that a Hawker Hendley target-towing aeroplane had crashed into the sea. A light northerly wind was blowing, with a moderately heavy sea. The motor life-boat Richard Silver Oliver was launched at 12.53 P.M. and off Carters Rock, about half a mile north of Penhale Point, she found a large patch of oil and wreckage. She picked up some of the wreckage and returned to her station, arriving at 3.5 P.M. Two motor boats also put out. - Rewards, £12 5s. 6d.

(See Newquay, Cornwall, “ Services by Shore-boats,’ ‘page 63.).