NOVEMBER 5TH. - NEWCASTLE, CO.

DOWN. A message was received from the coastguard at 10.40 in the morning that an aeroplane was down in the sea near Ardglass.

A fresh southerly breeze was blowing with a strong swell. The motor life-boat L. P. and St. Helen was launched at 11.10. Valuable help was given by U.S.A. troops who were marching by. Their help was enlisted as it was low water and the boat had to be dragged across the harbour. The life-boat searched, but without success, and at 1.10 she put into Ardglass. Here further information was obtained, a further search was made and the life-boat found wreckage and a dead body, supported by a partially inflated Mae West.

She brought the body to Ardglass at 2.45, returned to her station and was rehoused at 6 that evening. - Rewards, £26 4s..