JANUARY 26TH. - MARGATE, KENT.

At 1.15 P.M. the resident naval officer asked that the life-boat should be launched as a parachute had been seen in the sea two and a half miles to the north-east; the motor life-boat The Lord Southborough (Civil Service No. 1) was launched at 1.25 P.M.

A fresh S.W. wind was blowing, with a choppy sea. The life-boat found that the airman had been picked up by a patrol boat and handed over to an R.A.F. rescue boat, and returned to her station, with the parachute, arriving at 2.25 P.M. - Rewards, £8 11s..