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An Aeroplane (157)
OCTOBER 1 2TH. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO. WEXFORD. Red rockets had been reported and then a message came that an aeroplane had crashed on the coast, but nothing was found, and later it was learned that the aeroplane had crashed on land.- Partly...
An Aeroplane (38)
MARCH 20TH. - ST. IVES, CORNWALL.
A British aeroplane had crashed and sank immediately. Trawlers nearby picked up two landing wheels and an airman’s cap, but the life-boat and a rescue launch found nothing. - Rewards, £...
An Aeroplane (43)
APRIL 8TH. - LLANDUDNO, CAERNARVONSHIRE.
An aeroplane had come down in the sea, but the airmen were picked up by a motor boat from Colwyn Bay. - Rewards, £9 4s.
(See Colwyn Bay, “ Services by...
An Aeroplane (16)
MAY 1ST. - MOELFRE, ANGLESEY. An aeroplane had come down in the sea, but the life-boat found nothing. In her own crew of nine were five merchant captains, who were on leave. - Rewards, £5 14s. 6d..
An Aeroplane (37)
OCTOBER 2 3RD. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but the search, in which a fishing boat also took part, was without result. - Rewards, £11 6s. 6d. (See Whitby, “Services by...
An Aeroplane (28)
JUNE 2ND. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.
An aeroplane had come down in the sea, one mile E.N.E. of Easington, but the life-boat’s help was not needed.- Permanent paid crew..
An Aeroplane (53)
JUNE 6TH. - ALDEBURGH, SUFFOLK.
Signals of distress had been reported 10 miles away, but the life-boat was recalled, as a destroyer had picked up the crew of an aeroplane. - Rewards, £18 10s..
An Aeroplane (48)
MAY 8TH. - BUCKIE, BANFFSHIRE.
Two men had reported to the life-boat coxswain that they had seen an aeroplane crash in to the sea, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £4 10s. 6d..
Overladen and Unseaworthy Ships
THE Loss OF THE UTOPIA.
THE loss of a fine ship of 1,000 tons or more, with a valuable cargo on board, is- so frequent an occurence now-a-days, and yet the aggregate of such losses forms so small a per-centage to the...
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An Aeroplane (112)
AUGUST 15TH. - BARROW, LANCASHIRE.
At 10.35 in the morning a message was received from Hoylake coastguard that a Blenheim bomber was down off Walney Island, and the motor life-boat N.T. was launched immediately. A light...