9th October. A motor yacht with .two small boats in tow needed help, and before the life-boat arrived it was given by two boats from Amble.—Rewards, £20 7s..
23rd Nov- ember. Two fishing boats had run on the rocks in a fog, but were helped off by other boats.—Rewards, £16 14s.
20th December.
A fishing boat was overdue, but made port while the life-boat was searching in a thick fog.—Rewards, £36 6s. lOd.
22nd February. A steamer had been re- ported ashore on the Sunk Sands, but must have got off and gone on her way, as she could not be found.—Re- wards, £26 15s. 6d..
Explosions due to the dispersing of a wreck in foggy weather were mis- taken for distress signals by a light- vessel.—Rewards, £21 6s..
27th February.
The Spanish steamer Luchana, of Bilbao, dragged her anchors, but did not require help.—Rewards, £6 13s..
Miss Anne Lise Verndal and her mother. Twenty-seven in all were rescued by the Anstruther motor life-boat. - View image in PDF
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Kirkcudbright. — 2nd October. A small boat in which a man had gone fishing had been washed ashore empty, but no trace of the man could be found.—Rewards, £16 2s. 6d..
Poole and Bournemouth, and Swanage, Dorset.—3rd July, 1937. A yacht had stranded, but her crew reached safety with help from the shore.—Rewards, Poole and Bournemouth, £19 13s. ; Swanage, £11 4s..
Port St. Mary, Isle of Man —27th March, 1938. A keeper on the Chicken Rock Lighthouse had been taken ill, but was taken off by a fishing boat.— Rewards, £11 4s..