APRIL 25TH. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO. WEXFORD. At 2.40 in the afternoon the Greenore military look-out post reported that an aeroplane had crashed in the sea about a mile north of Tuskar Rock Lighthouse.

Messages were also received from the Life- Saving Service, Dublin, and the Air Defence Department. After the first message a fishing boat was seen going in the direction of the accident. The weather was clear and the sea calm, with a light north-west wind.

After the second message the motor life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson went out, leaving at 3.25, with the secretary, Mr. W. J. B. Moncas, on board. She met the fishing boat and took on board a dead body, which the skipper said was the only one to come to the surface after the crash, and landed it at Rosslare pier at five o’clock. - Partly paid permanent crew. - Rewards, £1 6s.

(See Rosslare Harbour, “Services by Shore-boats,” page 57)..