JANUARY 21ST. - SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE.

At 10.25 A.M. the honorary secretary of the station saw a Lysander aeroplane and a Spitfire aeroplane collide. The Lysander crashed at once but the Spitfire flew off, only to crash one and a half miles south of Skegness pier. The motor life-boat Anne Allen was launched at 11 A.M.

A moderate S.W. wind was blowing, but the sea was smooth. There was haze. The lifeboat picked up two bodies from the Lysander and brought them ashore. She failed to find the Spitfire and returned to her station at 1.23 P.M. The Spitfire was found later one and a half miles south of the scene of the accident. - Rewards, £10 19s.