APRIL 20TH. - NEWQUAY, CORNWALL.

At 12.37 in the afternoon the coastguard reported that an aeroplane towing a target had come down in the sea about two miles west of the harbour. Most of the regular life-boat crew were out fishing, but a crew was made up of three regular men and six volunteers, and the motor life-boat Richard Silver Oliver was launched at 1.5. It was dead low water, spring tide, and the launch had to be made from the beach outside the harbour. Men from the R.A.F. helped. A light N.W. wind was blowing, with a moderate ground sea. At 1.25 the life-boat found a rubber dinghy off Pentire Point west of Fistral Bay with two airmen on board. She was just in time to rescue them, for they were very much exhausted. She took the airmen and dinghy on board and arrived back at her station at 1.55 P.M. A letter was received from the R.A.F. station to which the aeroplane belonged, thanking the life-boat for the promptness with which it had gone to the rescue. - Rewards, £16 10s..