MARCH 4TH. - ANSTRUTHER, FIFESHIRE.
A naval aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but a later message said that all aeroplanes had been accounted for, and the life-boat was recalled. - Rewards, £8 11s..
JULY 15TH. - HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY.
A steamer was reported to have been bombed and sunk by enemy aeroplanes, but the lifeboat found nothing except a patch of oil.
Another vessel picked up an injured man in a...
AUGUST 26TH. - FLEETWOOD, LANCASHIRE.
A steam drifter had been reported ashore and showing signals of distress, but it was found that a mistake had been made in the signal and that she was not in any difficulty. - Rewards,...
SEPTEMBER 29TH. - NEWQUAY, AND ST. IVES, CORNWALL. A British aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but the life-boats were recalled at the request of the naval officer at Penzance. - Rewards : Newquay, £18 ; St. Ives, £25 1S...
JANUARY 18TH. - HELVICK HEAD, CO.
WATERFORD, AND BALLYCOTTON, CO.
CORK. Flares had been reported, but the life-boats found nothing, although a Lowestoft drifter said that she had seen an aeroplane dropping...
MARCH 28TH. - EXMOUTH, DEVON.
Flares had been reported, but nothing could be found, and it was thought that they had come from aeroplanes which were manoeuvring at the time. - Rewards, £27 13s..
APRIL 14TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE, AND SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE.
An R.A.F. aeroplane had been reported down in the sea several miles off Mablethorpe, but nothing could be found.- Rewards : - Skegness, £8 1s. 6d. ; The...
MAY 25TH. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE.
A barge had been reported sunk after collision, but nothing was found, and it was later learned that the barge had been beached. - Rewards, £11 10s. 6d..
JUNE 22ND. - BLYTH, NORTHUMBERLAND.
After an air-raid alarm had been given it, was reported that distress signals hadbeen heard, but nothing could be found.
Rewards. £10 18s..
SEPTEMBER 20TH. - ARRANMORE, CO.
DONEGAL. A trawler had been reported in distress twenty-five miles north-west of Tory Island, but nothing could be found.- Rewards, £15 8s. 6d..