SEPTEMBER 18TH. - ALDEBURGH, SUFFOLK.

At 1.38 in the afternoon the coastguard reported that a glider was down in the sea one and a half miles south-east of Aldeburgh.

A north-easterly wind was blowing, with a slight swell. The No. 1 motor life-boat Abdy Beauclerk was launched at 1.45 and found a Walrus amphibious aeroplane alongside the glider. She had rescued four men from it and the life-boat rescued another from a rubber dinghy. The coxswain then offered to take the four men of the glider off the Walrus, but the pilot declined as he thought that he could get into the air again. He could not, but instead taxied ashore and landed the four men. The life-boat arrived back at 2.30. - Rewards, £17..