DEC. 12TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, AND CAISTER, NORFOLK.
A steamer had been reported to be on fire after striking a mine, but a trawler had picked up five survivors and nothing else was found but some wreckage. -...
JULY 26TH. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO. WEXFORD. A small yacht had gone ashore on the Dogger Bank, but got off without help. - Partly paid permanent crew.
- Rewards, £2 14s. 6d..
FEBRUARY 9TH. - THURSO, CAITHNESS- SHIRE. A ship’s boat had been reported drifting off Sandside Head, but nothing was found. The boat later went ashore, badly damaged, with no one on board.
- Rewards, £10 1s....
APRIL 11TH. - BARRA ISLAND, HEBRIDES.
A motor boat was late returning from a trip to Mingulay Island, but she had only been delayed owing to difficulties in landing her passengers. - Rewards, £8 8s..
APRIL 26TH. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX. Two aeroplanes had been reported down in the sea and what appeared to be a submerged aeroplane was found, but there was no sign of survivors. - Rewards, £4 9s.
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NOVEMBER 21ST. - BROUGHTY FERRY, ANGUS. A Royal Naval Air Service aeroplane had crashed in the sea, but the pilot was rescued by a small boat from the shore.
- Rewards, £13 13s. (See Easthaven, “Services by Shore-boats...
JANUARY 20TH. - WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. A Fortress aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but she had come down just inshore on a flooded marsh.
- Rewards, £15 9s..
THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE On the 27th February, 1941, the Humber life-boat rescued the crew of eight of the balloon ship Thora.
COXSWAIN ROBERT CROSS was awarded a clasp to his bronze medal..
Category: Medals
FEBRUARY 22ND. - SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE.
A British Wellington aeroplane had come down in the Wash, but nothing was found in the course of a nine hours’ search. - Rewards, £29 11s. 6d..
AUGUST 3RD. - CROMER, NORFOLK.
An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but the life-boat only found wreckage of a balloon and, learning that no aeroplane was missing, returned to her station.- Rewards, £5...