Fenit, Co. Kerry.—8th October. A trawler was sinking, but her watertight bulkhead held and she was taken in tow by another trawler.—Rewards, £7 19s..
Dungeness, Kent.—7th October, 1938, The Belgian trawler Renaissance had been disabled by a wire which had fouled her propeller, but another trawler took her in tow.—Rewards, £16 135..
St. Abbs, Berwickshire.—6th August, 1939. A bather had been reported in difficulties by the pilots, but the ?ifeboat could find no sign of him. He was already drowned.—Rewards, £5 11*. 6d..
MAY 22ND. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX. A British Spitfire aeroplane had come down in the sea, but the pilot was rescued by a fishing boat. - Rewards, £3 4s. 6d..
AUGUST 31ST. - DUN LAOGHAIRE, AND HOWTH, CO. DUBLIN. A yacht had sunk after being in collision, but her crew were saved by another yacht. - Rewards : Dun Laoghaire, £5 3s. ; Howth, £8 5s. 6d..
MAY 19TH. - RHYL, FLINTSHIRE. A Spitfire aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but it had crashed on land. - Rewards, £10 2s. (See Llanerchymor, “Services by Auxiliary Rescue-boats;” page 67)..
MAY 5TH . - WELLS, NORFOLK. A motor rescue dinghy had been dropped from an aeroplane to airmen whose aeroplane had come down in the sea and who had got away in their rubber dinghy. The motor dinghy took the other dinghy in tow. This is...
TOW TAKEN OVER FROM FISHING VESSEL Stromness, Orkneys. At 10.20 on the morning of the 8th May, 1963, the chairman of the branch was informed that the fishing vessel Lily Flower needed help in Hoy Sound. The life-boat Archibald and Alexander...
ST. ANDREWS, N.B.—The Ladies' Own Life-boat put off on the morning of the 16th November to the assistance of the schooner Roseneath, of Hull, which was near the breakers on the sandbanks off St. Andrews during a strong E. gale and very...
On the 1st March the Life-boat was again launched to the help of distressed fishing-boats. Between twenty and thirty of them were out when a strong gale sprang up from the S. by E., with a rough sea, and they all returned with the exception...