MAY 26TH. - BLACKPOOL, LANCASHIRE.

At 10.10 in the morning the police reported that an aeroplane had crashed in the sea opposite Cleveleys Hydro. There was a variable north-east wind and the sea calm.

At 10.30 the motor life-boat Sarah Ann Austin was launched and was guided to the position by aeroplanes. There she found a rubber dinghy, maps, first-aid kit, papers and bits of clothing, small pieces of wreckage, and a considerable quantity of oil and petrol on the water. The wreckage showed that the aeroplane had exploded when it hit the sea. The life-boat could find no trace of the crew. She handed over the wreckage to a motor launch of the Royal Naval Air Service, and returned to her station at 2.30.

- Rewards, £6 8s. 6d..