SEPTEMBER 2ND. - SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE.

Soon after six in the morning the coastguard reported that a dinghy from a Wellington aeroplane had been seen nearly nine miles from Skegness pier. A strong south-easterly wind of nearly gale force was blowing, with a rough sea and driving rain.

The motor life-boat Anne Allen was launched at 6.52, searched without result, and returned at 11.5. At 2.30 in the afternoon she was called out again and, with a doctor and two orderlies on board, went to the Long Sand, twelve miles south-south-west of Skegness.

There an R.A.F. rescue launch had gone aground. The launch had on board four survivors of the crew of six of the Wellington aeroplane whose dinghy she had found. The Skegness life-boat stood by until the launch refloated. The rescued men preferring to remain in her, the life-boat returned, arriving at 7.20 that evening. An increase in the usual money award on the standard scale was made to each member of the crew and to the helpers. - Standard rewards, £18 14s. ; additional rewards, £10 1s. 9d. ; total rewards, £28 15s. 9d..