APRIL 1ST. - PORT ASKAIG, HEBRIDES.

At 12.30 in the afternoon the Kilchoman coastguard reported distress signals between Islay and Colonsay. A strong southeast breeze was blowing, with a heavy swell.

The motor life-boat Charlotte Elizabeth was launched at one o’clock and, six miles north of the Rhu Vaal Lighthouse, she picked up an airman’s boot and a first aid outfit. The Scalasaig auxiliary rescue boat, which had also been called out, picked up a body, but no survivors were found and the life-boat reached her station again at seven o’clock that evening. - Rewards, £7 7s. (See Scalasaig, “Services of Auxiliary Rescue-boats,” page 66)..