JULY 17TH. - RHYL, FLINTSHIRE, AND LLANDUDNO, CAERNARVONSHIRE. At eight o’clock in the evening the Rhyl life-boat station was told that an Anson aeroplane had come down in the sea seven miles to the north-west, and that Botha aeroplanes and a speed boat were searching for it. The weather was fine and the sea calm. At 9.23 the Rhyl motor life-boat The Gordon Warren was launched, and reached the position given about ten o’clock. As she did so the fishing boat Hard Lines picked up three airmen.

One of the three was dead, and one unconscious. The life-boat took the unconscious man aboard, and her crew gave him artificial respiration and signalled for a doctor to be waiting when she put back to Rhyl.

She landed the man at 10.25 and he was taken to hospital, where he recovered. The news of the accident reached the Llandudno life-boat station at 8.41 and the motor life-boat Thomas and Annie Wade Richards was launched at 9.30. She spoke an R.A.F.

sea rescue boat, which had picked up one survivor, and the boat asked her to carry on the search and then made for Beaumaris.

After searching for about an hour the lifeboat called at Rhyl at 11.35, and learning there that all the men had been picked up, she returned to her station, arriving at 1.15 next morning. - Rewards, Rhyl, £13 8s. ; Llandudno, £18 5s. 6d. (See Rhyl, “Services by Shore-boats,” page 61.).