MAY 28TH. - MARYPORT, CUMBERLAND.

At 4.16 in the afternoon the naval officer at Workington informed the life-boat honorary secretary that a Martinet aeroplane was down in the sea north-west of Maryport.

The weather was fine, with a smooth sea and a light variable wind. At 4.38 the motor lifeboat Joseph Braithwaite was launched and found wreckage three and a half miles northnorth- west of Maryport. The R.A.F. boat from Silloth and the Workington examination vessel also came out, but no sign of the aeroplane’s crew was seen. The life-boat arrived back at 6.45. - Rewards, £7 9s. 6d..