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MARCH 29TH. - SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE.
The coastguard reported that aconvoy was being bombed by enemy aircraft several miles off, but no vessels were found in need of help. - Rewards, £39 10s. 6d..
A Steamer (25)
APRIL 23RD. - RAMSGATE, WALMER, AND MARGATE, KENT. A steamer had been mined and had sunk off the North Foreland, but her crew were taken off by naval vessels. - Rewards : Ramsgate, £5 3s. ; Walmer £14 12s. 6d. ; Margate, £9 8s...
An Aeroplane (113)
AUGUST 31ST. - MARGATE, KENT. An aeroplane was reported down in the sea, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £5 12s. 6d.
(See Herne Bay, “Services by Shore-boats”, page 150.).
An Aeroplane (12)
APRIL 1 5TH. - DUNBAR, EAST LOTHIAN.
An aeroplane had crashed in the sea, but only oil and wreckage were found.
Two bodies had already been picked up by a patrol vessel. - Rewards, £4 7s....
A Small Motor Launch
JUNE 1 6TH. - PORTPATRICK, WIGTOWNSHIRE.
A small motor launch had been seen burning flares off Ballantrae, but the life-boat was recalled before reaching her.
- Rewards, £3 17s. 6d..
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SEPTEMBER 25TH. - BARMOUTH, MERIONETHSHIRE, AND PWLLHELI, CAERNARVONSHIRE. An Anson aeroplane had been reported down, north of St. Patrick’s Causeway, but a search by the life-boats, aeroplanes, and an R.A.F. boat was without result. and...
A Steamer (6)
DECEMBER 26TH. - PORTPATRICK, WIGTOWNSHIRE. A steamer had gone aground, but later it was reported that help was not needed and the life-boat was recalled.
- Rewards, £13 14s. 6d..
Life-Boat Essay Competition, 1931
Presentation of Prizes in the Greater London and South-Eastern Districts.
AT the Caxton Hall, Westminster, on the 15th July, the Mayor of Westminster (Captain J. F. C. Bennett) presided at the presentation of the...
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It was reported on the evening of the 13th September that a party of nine people were stranded on Lady Isle, about three miles from Troon, in the Firth of Clyde. They had left Prestwick at 3 P.M. in a motor boat and had landed on the island...
Gannett
About 7.30 P.M. on the 23rd January, signals of distress were seen on the yawl Gannett, of AVexford, which had run aground the previous day, and the Life-boat James Stevens No. 15 was sent out in response. As the tide was nearly low, she was...