SEPTEMBER 7TH. - BLACKPOOL, LANCASHIRE.

At 4.40 in the afternoon the St.

Anne’s coastguard reported that an aeroplane had crashed in the sea about three miles west-south-west of Squires Gate. A light north-west breeze was blowing and the sea was smooth. The motor life-boat Sarah Ann Austin was launched at five o’clock, taking with her an R.A.F. doctor, another R.A.F.

officer and two police officers. She found two dinghies with three men in them, the crew of a Fleet Air Arm Barracuda aeroplane.

The men were wet, cold and slightly injured.The life-boat took them and the dinghies on board and landed them at Blackpool at 6.45.

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