JULY 14TH. - NEWQUAY, CORNWALL.

At 11.20 A.M. the coastguard reported that two bathers, men of the R.A.F., were drowning off Perranporth. A strong S.W. wind was blowing with a moderately heavy sea. The motor life-boat Richard Silver Oliver was away in fifteen minutes, but was not in time to save the men. She found and brought in an R.A.F.. dinghy, which it was assumed had been dropped by an aeroplane to the help of the men. She arrived back at her station at 1.50 P.M. - Rewards, £12 5s. 6d..