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A Minesweeper (6)
NOVEMBER 29TH. - SELSEY, SUSSEX.
A British aeroplane was reported to have been shot down in the sea and the pilot to be drifting in a rubber boat off East Beach, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £18 10s. 6d..<...
A British Aeroplane (2)
MAY 7TH. - HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY.
A British aeroplane had come down in the sea, but her crew of three were rescued by motor launches and a seaplane. - Rewards, £2 10s..
None (44)
SEPTEMBER 26TH. - RAMSGATE, AND MARGATE, KENT. A Halifax aeroplane had been reported to have crashed in the sea, but it had come down on the Belgian coast.- Rewards : Ramsgate, £12 3s. 6d. ; Margate, £17 3s. 6d..
Sandbank Mistaken for a Cloud
The Institution has made rewards of £15 : 15 :- to three fishermen of Boston, Lincolnshire, for rescuing three airmen whose aeroplane had crashed en a.
sandbank. They had come down through a cloud over The Wash and had...
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An Aeroplane (90)
DECEMBER 19TH. - SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE.
An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but the life-boat found nothing. Later a body was washed ashore. A letter of thanks was received from Air Commodore of the R.A.F....
An Aeroplane (34)
SEPTEMBER 16TH. - SALCOMBE , DEVON. An aeroplane had come down in the sea, but her crew had been picked up from their rubber dinghy by a Hope Cove fishing boat. - Rewards, £6 13s.
(See Hope Cove, “ Services by...
An Aeroplane (67)
APRIL 29TH. - PORTHDINLLAEN, CAERNARVONSHIRE. A British Sunderland aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but nothing could be found.- Rewards, £10 14s.
(See Bardsey Island, “ Services by Shoreboats,” page...
None (8)
Donaghadee, Co. Down.—27th January.
What was thought to be a fishing boat in distress was found to be a buoy, with a light and flag attached, marking the end of a drifter's line.—Rewards, £6 17s..
An Aeroplane
Scarborough, Yorkshire.—10th September.
During the King's Cup Air Race it was reported that an aeroplane had come down in North Bay, but actually it had crashed on Castle Hill.
—Rewards, £13 12s....
An Aeroplane (1)
Fowey, Cornwall.—17th April, 1938.
An aeroplane had been reported to have come down in the sea, but nothing could be found, and it was presumed that a machine ftying very low had given rise to the report.—Rewards, £4...