MARCH 24TH. - WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. About 8.33 in the morning, information was received from the naval base at Harwich, through the coastguard, that two American Fortress aeroplanes were down near the Pye Sands. A light west-southwest wind was blowing, with a slight sea.

The motor life-boat E.M.E.D. was launched at 8.50. She kept in communication with the coastguard station by lamp and wireless, and at 9.27 the coastguard told her that survivors had been picked up by a Walrus amphibious aeroplane and that she should take them on board. By this time, however, the Walrus was already in the air and returning to her station. The life-boat searched for more survivors and returned, bringing with her a rubber dinghy. She reached her station at 12.50 that afternoon. - Rewards, £10 2s. 6d..