AUGUST 28TH. - CAISTER, NORFOLK. At 6.40 in the evening a telephone message was received from Scratby that an aircraftsman was being blown out to sea on a raft. The sea was choppy with a fresh west-north-west wind blowing. The man had gone bathing, taking a raft with him, and was having a rest on the raft when it was carried out to sea.

The motor life-boat Jose' Neville was launched at 6.50 and twenty minutes later rescued the man two miles north-east of the life-boat station. She was back at her station at 7.30.

A gift of £10 10s. was made to the life-boat crew by the man’s unit, and it also made a donation to the Institution. - Rewards, £13 5s..