JUNE 19TH. - HASTINGS, SUSSEX. At 6.46 in the morning the St. Leonard’s coastguard called up the life-boat coxswain. An aeroplane was down in the sea. A strong north-east wind was blowing, with a choppy sea. Owing to a sand bank, the launching was difficult, but with the help of a bull-dozer the motor life-boat Cyril and Lilian Bishop got away at 7.33. Three miles away she picked up the Norwegian pilot of a Spitfire aeroplane and his dinghy. He was unhurt and the life-boat landed him at Hastings at 8.20. - Rewards, £18 14s. 3d..