OCTOBER 13TH. - ARBROATH, ANGUS.

At 3.15 in the afternoon the coastguard reported that an aeroplane had crashed into the sea three miles S.W. of Arbroath harbour.

A light southerly wind was blowing, and the weather was fine with a smooth sea. Within live minutes the motor life-boat John and William Mudie had been launched and was on her way to the spot which she reached at 3.38. The aeroplane, which belonged to the Fleet Air Arm, had already sunk, and her crew of three had taken to their rubber dinghy. All were injured. The life-boat rescued them, and at 4 o’clock got back to Arbroath where an ambulance was waiting on the pier. - Rewards, £7 11s..