MARCH 26TH. - ST. DAVID’S, PEMBROKESHIRE.

At 11.30 at night, the life-boat honorary secretary received a telephone message from the R.A.F. at St. David’s that a Halifax aeroplane was down in the sea several miles west by north of St. David’s Head. She could be seen ablaze on the water.

A light south-west wind was blowing and the sea was calm. Five minutes later the naval base asked the life-boat to stand by, and at 12.10 the duty naval officer asked her to go out. He said that a high speed launch had left Fishguard at 11.45.

The motor life-boat Civil Service No. 6 was launched at 12.12. Included in her crew were the honorary secretary, Dr. Joseph Soar, Mus.Doc., and Squadron Leader Manton.

Aeroplanes dropped flares to help the life-boat and she searched for a long time, but all that she found was a wheel of the aeroplane, which she towed in. It was 7.5 next morning when she got back to her station.- Rewards, £12 8s..