MAY 22ND. - PADSTOW, CORNWALL.
An aeroplane was reported to have crashed into the sea off Trevose Head, but actually it had only flown low in thick weather.- Rewards, £3 19s..
MARCH 14TH. - FENIT, CO. KERRY.
A fishing boat had been reported in difficulties off Smerwick Harbour, but the lifeboat found her abandoned. Her crew had got ashore. - Rewards, £20 9s..
APRIL 16TH. - BLACKPOOL, LANCASHIRE.
Wreckage thought to be an aeroplane had been reported. The life-boat found it to be wreckage of a ship, but there was no sign of her crew. - Rewards, £6 3s. 3d..
DECEMBER 27TH. - WICK, CAITHNESSSHIRE.
An object having the appearance of a ship’s boat had been reported, but it was found to be a large Admiralty buoy adrift. - Rewards, £6 13s..
Last Summer, we appealed to RNLI supporters to make a donation to help support our volunteer crews.
A big thank you to everyone who contributed to our Summer appeal, which raised a total of £1,209,077. Your support is...
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Among money which has come in collecting boxes during the war have been coins not only of George vi, George v and Edward vn, but of Queen Victoria, William IV, George IV, George in, Queen Anne and Charles II..
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SOS day 2008, on 25 January, was a great success. Thank you to everyone who took part and supported the RNLI’s national fundraising day.
Money is still coming in, so the Lifeboat can’t announce a figure for the total...
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OCTOBER 5TH. - THURSO, CAITHNESSSHIRE.
Red rockets had been reported, but nothing was found, and later it was learned that a bombing aeroplane had come down on the land. - Rewards, £14 4s. 6d..
DECEMBER 27TH. - WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. A sailing barge had been blown up, but one of her crew was rescued by another barge and the other one was lost.
- Rewards, £9 3s. 6d..
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...