SEPTEMBER 8TH. - BOULMER, NORTHUMBERLAND.

At 9.43 in the morning a message came from the coastguard that a British Hurricane aeroplane had crashed into the sea two miles east of Embleton, some seven miles N.N.E. of the life-boat station.

The honorary secretary, Mr. William S. Stanton, was then at Alnwick on business, six miles away. As soon as the message was passed on to him he returned to the station by car. There he found that all the fishermen were out at sea, including all the regular members of the life-boat’s crew. The only one on shore was the motor-mechanic, and he got the life-boat ready. When the honorary secretary arrived he collected ascratch crew, which included three men of the R.A.F., and took command himself, and the motor life-boat Clarissa Langdon was launched, the motor-mechanic driving the launching tractor. It was then five minutes past ten, only twenty-two minutes after the message had been received from the coastguard.

About one and a half miles east of Dunstanburgh Castle the life-boat found patches of oil and picked up a rubber dinghy which had not been inflated. She learned later that the pilot had been saved by a fishing boat. She returned to her station, arriving at 1.10 in the afternoon. - Rewards, £6.

(See Newton-by-the-Sea, “ Services by Shore-boats,” page 65.).