OCTOBER 18TH. - SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE.

At 2.15 in the afternoon the coastguard reported that a Mustang aeroplane had fallen into the sea about a mile from Chapel St. Leonards in a south-easterly direction. A west-south-west breeze was blowing, with a slight sea. The motor life-boat Anne Allen was launched at 2.40 and found wreckage and oil, but no trace of any survivor. The life-boat brought back some pieces of wreckage and an oxygen cylinder for identification.

She arrived at 5.10. - Rewards, £13 18s. 6d..