FEBRUARY 14TH. - RHYL, FLINTSHIRE.

At 11.9 in the morning the Rhyl coastguard reported that an aeroplane had crashed in the sea about a mile north of the coastguard look-out. The weather was fine, with only a light wind and a smooth sea. The motor life-boat The Gordon Warren was launched at 11.49, and half an hour later found wreckage of an R.A.F. Mosquito aeroplane two and a half miles north-north-east of Rhyl. She picked up a body, badly damaged as by an explosion, and took it to Foryd Harbour.

She then made another search, found landing wheels and other wreckage, and brought them in, returning to her station again at 6.15 that evening. - Rewards, £18 7s. (See Rhyl, “Services by Shore-boats,” page 55.).