MAY 1 3TH. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK.

At about 4.45 P.M. information was received that an aeroplane had come down in the sea off Blakeney Point. The weather was fine with a strong S.W. breeze and a choppy sea. An exercise of the lifeboat had just been carried out by the District Inspector of Life-boats, Commander T. G.

Michelmore, R.D., R.N.R., and when permission to launch had been given by the naval authorities the motor life-boat Foresters Centenary put out again at 5.3 P.M. Guided by a smoke float, dropped by a searching aeroplane, the life-boat picked up an American airman at 6.20 P.M. He was unconscious and though the crew tried artificial respiration for over two hours, they could not revive him. Another airman had been rescued by the R.A.F. rescue launch from Wells, and she spoke to the life-boat and reported that the others had baled out over the land, and that the whole crew of the aeroplane were accounted for. The lifeboat then returned to her station, arriving at 8.30 P.M. - Rewards, £19 18s. 9d..