On the 26th November the Life-boat Reigate put off from this station and saved 8 persons which vessel had been driven into the ...
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FEBRUARY 6TH. - SELSEY, SUSSEX. A British aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but boats which went out to search were later recalled by order of the commander- in-chief at Portsmouth. - Rewards, £13 13s. 9d..
MAY 10TH. - SALCOMBE, DEVON. A British aeroplane had been shot down, but the crew of two succeeded in reaching the shore unaided. - Rewards, £6 17s. 6d..
DECEMBER 29TH. - KIRKCUDBRIGHT.
A German aeroplane had come down in the sea in Wigtown Bay, but nothing was found.
Later wreckage was washed ashore. - Rewards, £15 19s. 6d.
NOVEMBER 7TH . - ST IVES, CORNWALL.
A British aeroplane had come down on Gwithian Beach, St. Ives Bay, but the crew got ashore unaided. - Rewards, £20 18s..
DECEMBER 14TH. - SKEGNESS, LIN-COLNSHIRE. A British bomber was reported to have come down in the sea, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £28 18s.
THE number of ropes and other stores which are perceived by anyone glancing into a Life-boat cause the admiring, if somewhat bewildered, landsman to ask what room is left for the rescued passengers; and even the seaman unused to Life-boat...
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Coxswain John MacLeod, of Thurso, Caithness-shire, who a year ago won the Institution's bronze medal for rescuing two exhausted Norwegians from a ship's raft, when it was within 200 yard* of the rocks in a heavy sea, has now been...
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At daylight on the 2nd Nov., during a very heavy gale, the schooner Friends, of Lynn, parted from her anchor and was driven ashore, three miles south of Bridlington Harbour. The Brid- lington life-boat was quickly conveyed on her...