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HARTLEPOOL, DURHAM. At about 3 in the afternoon of the 19th of September, 1943, the 18-ton motor fishing boat Alexandra, with a crew of five, was fishing some 10 miles east-north-east of Heugh Light in Hartlepool Bay, when the men saw an object one and a half miles away. They slipped their gear and made for it to find that it was a dinghy with three men of the Royal Canadian Air Force in it. They said that they had crashed a short  time before and that a fourth man was in the water. The fishing boat searched and found him, but he was already dead from head injuries The rescuers were thanked by the R.A.F. station to which the aeroplane belonged. - Rewards, £5 and £1 for expenses.