JULY 25TH. - SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE.

At 4.40 in the morning, a message was received from the coastguard that it was thought that a Lancaster aeroplane was down in the sea about six miles from Anderby Creek. A light southerly wind was blowing and the sea was calm. The aeroplane could be seen blazing when the motor life-boat Anne Allen was launched at 5.28. About eight miles from Skegness Pier, she found wreckage and searched a wide area, but found no men. One body was picked up by an R.A.F. launch. The life-boat picked up parachutes, caps, boots, and other things, and handed them to the air authorities when she arrived back at ten o’clock - Rewards, £10 19s. 9d..