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An R.A.F. Aeroplane

JANUARY 11TH. - DOUGLAS, ISLE OF MAN. At 7.10 in the morning, information was received from the coastguard that an R.A.F. aeroplane had crashed in Douglas Bay about two hundred yards off the Crescent Hotel. The weather was stormy, with a south-east wind and a rough sea. At 7.30 the motor life-boat Manchester and Salford was launched. She picked up one dead body and returned at 10.10. Four other bodies were washed ashore. - Rewards, £9 2s..