OCTOBER 7TH. - CLOVELLY, DEVONSHIRE.

At 3.10 in the afternoon the wife of the life-boat coxswain saw a Seafire aeroplane crash into the sea five miles N.E. by N.

of Clovelly. A moderate N.E. breeze was blowing, and the sea was smooth. The motor life-boat City of Nottingham was launched at 3.15 P.M. and found the badly battered body of an airman. She searched further and found a deflated rubber dinghy.

With the body and the dinghy she returned to Clovelly, arriving at 5.30. - Rewards, £16 15s. 6d..