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Two Longshore Boats
OCT. 12TH. - LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.
Two longshore boats had been seen flying distress signals, but one was taken in tow by a herring drifter and the other, which was at anchor with her engine broken down, refused help as her...
An Aeroplane (6)
JANUARY 7TH. - NEWQUAY, CORNWALL.
A British aeroplane had been reported in the sea, but her crew of three had been rescued by a fishing boat before the life-boat arrived. - Rewards, £13 2s.
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A Steamer (5)
FEBRUARY 10TH. - ST. IVES, CORNWALL.
A steamer had been damaged in an air raid, but all the injured were taken ashore by a speed boat and the steamer herself was taken in tow by a tug. - Rewards, £21 18s. 6d..
An Aeroplane (44)
APRIL 13TH. - BARROW, LANCASHIRE.
A British aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but her crew were picked up by atrawler about twenty miles N.W. of Morecambe Bay lightship and the life-boat was recalled by wireless....
Verbania
MARCH 18TH. - AITH, SHETLANDS.
News had been received through Wick Radio that the Italian steamer Verbania was in distress, seven miles N.E. of Foula, but the life-boat, which was out for fifteen hours, could find nothing. ...
An Aeroplane (11)
APRIL 14TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
A bombing aeroplane had been reporteddown in the sea some twenty miles out, but nothing could be found. The life-boat covered seventy miles. - Rewards, £13 12s..
A Hurricane Fighter Aeroplane (1)
MAY 2 9TH. - RAMSGATE, KENT. A Hurricane fighter aeroplane was reported to have come down in the sea off Ramsgate, but the life-boat was recalled when news came that it had been found off Dover. - Rewards, £5 3s..
None (66)
JULY 11TH. - BLYTH, NORTHUMBERLAND.
In the belief that a vessel had been blown up, the life-boat put out, but found that a mine had been exploded by minesweepers.
- Rewards, £5 6s..
An Aeroplane (105)
AUGUST 25TH. -WEYMOUTH, DORSET.
Many German aircraft had been brought down in a terrific fight in the Weymouth and Portland areas, but although the sea was strewn with wreckage nothing worth rescuing was found. - Rewards,...