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A Wellington Bombing Aeroplane (1)

JULY 26TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK. At about 2.42 in the morning the coastguard reported that an aeroplane had crashed into the sea about a mile north of Cromer, and the No. 1 motor life-boat H. F. Bailey was launched at 3 A.M.. A moderate southerly breeze was blowing, and the night was very dark, but the sea was smooth. Almost immediately after launching, the life-boat heard cries and then found a man in the water. She turned on her searchlight and found three more men about a hundred yards further east. While she was getting these men aboard she heard another man shouting, and rescued him too. The five men were the crew of a Wellington bombing aeroplane. The life-boat was back at her station and had landed the men twenty-two minutes after setting out. - Rewards, £16 2s..