AUGUST 8TH. - BEMBRIDGE, ISLE OF WIGHT. At about 5.15 P.M. an aeroplane was reported by the coastguard down in the sea ten miles S.S.W. from Bembridge Point.
A strong south-westerly wind was blowing, with a very rough sea....
AUGUST 24TH. - MOELFRE, ANGLESEY, AND LLANDUDNO, CAERNARVONSHIRE.
Reports had been received that an aeroplane was down in the sea several miles west of Great Orme’s Head, but nothing was found. - Rewards : Moelfre, £8 ...
SEPTEMBER 11TH. - MARGATE, KENT.
At 4.24 P.M. an aeroplane had been seen to crash into the sea three miles north of the life-boathouse, but only oil on the water was found, and a bright green patch showing that it was a...
OCTOBER 1ST. - LLANDUDNO, CAERNARVONSHIRE.
An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, and the life-boat made a long and extensive search, but without result. - Rewards, £33 12s..
OCTOBER 13TH. - NEW BRIGHTON, AND HOYLAKE, CHESHIRE. A Blenheim aeroplane had been shot down in error by a British fighter, but a search, carried out during an air-raid. was without result.- Rewards : New Brighton, £19 6s. ; Hoylake,...
JULY 13TH. - ST. ABBS, BERWICKSHIRE.
An aeroplane had crashed in the sea, but all its crew were lost and six bodies were picked up by fishing boats. - Rewards, £6 18s. (See St. Abbs, “Services by Shoreboats,” page 61.)...
JULY 19TH. - FISHGUARD , PEM-BROKESHIRE. A rubber dinghy with the survivors of an aeroplane’s crew had been reported twenty-nine miles N.N.W. of Fishguard, but the life-boat was recalled by the coastguard before she reached the position...
JUNE 27TH. - WICK, CAITHNESSSHIRE.
An R.A.F. aeroplane had been reported down, but nothing was found, and later it was learned that the aeroplane had returned safely. - Rewards, £7 13s. 6d.
SEPTEMBER 16TH. - CROMARTY. A British aeroplane had come down in the sea, but the life-boat was overtaken by an R.A.F. speed boat, and returned to her station.- Rewards, £4 7s. 6d.
(See Brora, “ Services by...
NEW BRIGHTON.—On the 4th January, 1881, at 3.45 A.M., in reply to signals of distress, the Life-boat Willie and Arthur proceeded to the Asque Spit and found the s.s. Brazilian, of Barrow, ashore there.
After the boat's...
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