FEBRUARY 13TH. - APPLEDORE, DEVON.

At 12.29 in the afternoon the coastguard reported smoke at sea and what appeared to be a man in a rubber dinghy. A westerly wind was blowing, with a bad ground swell. The motor life-boat Violet Armstrong was launched at 12.39, and two miles west-by-south of Westward Ho found the rubber dinghy. In it was an RAF.

wireless operator, who had got free from an aeroplane which had crashed. The life-boat rescued him, injured and exhausted. Under wireless directions from the naval officer-incharge she took him to Clovelly, arriving there at 3.10. Naval vessels were also out searching, but found no trace of the other members of the aeroplane’s crew, although they found wreckage. The life-boat reached her station again at five that afternoon- Rewards, £8 3s..