JULY 20TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
News had been received from the coastguard that a trawler was in distress twenty-eight miles away, but she was picked up by a steamer.-Rewards, £16 10s..
AUG. 31ST. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX. A small sailing yacht with two men on board had broken adrift and was being carried out to sea in a dense fog, but when the motor life-boat found her she was safely at anchor and did not need help. -...
JUNE 27TH. - PADSTOW, CORNWALL.
A drifter, which was helping in the salvage of a motor vessel, had gone ashore herself, but she got off without help. Partly paid permanent crew. - Rewards, £6 9s..
AUGUST 27TH. - EASTBOURNE, SUSSEX.
A naval vessel, towing a target for the army, was reported to have fouled some buoys, but she got clear without help.- Rewards, £13 16s..
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...
JULY 24TH. - RAMSGATE. KENT. It had been reported that a convoy had been attacked and that an aeroplane had come down, but though the life-boat found that a convoy had been bombed, she could not find any aeroplane. - Rewards, £5 3s..<...
FEBRUARY 26TH. - THURSO, CAITHwas NESS-SHIRE. A ship’s boat had been reported in difficulties near Cape Wrath, but a later message said that she had driven ashore with no one on board, and the lifeboat was recalled by wireless. - Rewards,...
MAY 20TH. - BRIDLINGTON, YORKSHIRE.
A fishing coble had been disabled by the loss of her propeller, but she was taken in tow by another fishing boat. - Rewards, £4 10s..
AUGUST 6TH. - PORTRUSH, CO. ANTRIM.
A fishing boat had been reported missing, but she was found by the Malin Head auxiliary rescue-boat. - Rewards, £5 1s. (See Malin Head, “Services by Auxiliary Rescueboats,” page 68.)...
NOVEMBER 6TH. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO. WEXFORD. A fishing boat had been reported in difficulties, but her anchor held and she sailed home on the following day. - Partly paid permanent crew.
Rewards, £6 18s....