AUGUST 25TH. - ST. IVES, CORNWALL.

At 10.35 P.M. a message was received from the resident naval officer, Penzance, through the coastguard, that an Anson aeroplane was down three miles N.W. of Portreath. A light S.W. wind was blowing, with a moderate sea.

The motor life-boat Caroline Oates Aver and William Maine was launched at 11.20 P.M.

Aeroplanes were also searching. The lifeboat saw a flare and about 1.30 A.M. foundand rescued the whole crew, five in number, from a rubber dinghy. One man was injured. Life-boatmen gave him first-aid, and gave him and the other airmen rum, biscuits and chocolate. They were all wet, cold and exhausted. On her way back to St. Ives, the life-boat signalled for a doctor and ambulance to be waiting. The lifeboat got back to her station at 3.30 A.M.

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