OCTOBER 27TH. - DUNBAR, EAST LOTHIAN. At 2.5 in the afternoon the coastguard telephoned that a British aeroplane had crashed in the sea. The weather was fine, the sea calm. At 2.20 the motor life-boat George and Sarah Strachan was launched and went to the scene of the accident, which had been given as one and a half miles east-by-south from Barnsness Lighthouse.

There she saw an aeroplane on patrol.

She made a thorough search, found the wreckage and picked up the body of an airman and a rubber dinghy. She arrived back at her station again at 5.40. - Rewards, £9 19s. 6d.