MARCH 13TH. - BUCKIE, BANFFSHIRE.
A British bombing aeroplane had crashed, but nothing was found, and the coastguard reported that the crew baled out and all were safe. - Rewards, £15 9s..
NOVEMBER 15TH . - RHYL, FLINT - SHIRE, AND HOYLAKE, CHESHIRE.
A British aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but the life-boats found nothing, and it was learned later that no aeroplane was missing. - Rewards :...
JULY 24TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK. At 8 A.M. the naval base at Great Yarmouth reported, through the coastguard, that an aeroplane was down in the sea E. by S. eleven and a half miles from Cromer. A light S.S.W. wind was blowing and the sea was...
OCTOBER 29TH. - CLACTON - ON - SEA (AT BRIGHTLINGSEA), ESSEX. An aeroplane had crashed in the sea off Holland Haven, and a man was reported to be in the water, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £14 19s..
JULY 21ST. - PORT ST. MARY, ISLE OF MAN. An R.A.F. aeroplane had crashed in the sea and the pilot had baled out, but he was picked up dead by a government launch. - Rewards, £20 11s. 6d..
AUGUST 3RD. - CROMER, NORFOLK.
An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but the life-boat only found wreckage of a balloon and, learning that no aeroplane was missing, returned to her station.- Rewards, £5...
AUGUST 19TH. - NEW BRIGHTON, AND HOYLAKE, CHESHIRE. An R.A.F. aeroplane had been reported down in the sea in the estuary of the River Dee, but nothing was found. - Rewards : New Brighton, £9 5s.; Hoylake, £17 10s..
JANUARY 22ND. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE. An aeroplane had crashed into the sea, but was found by a small fishing boat. She had sunk in ten feet of water and the pilot was drowned.- Rewards, £6 12s.
IN the Life-boat Journal for November, 1895, the development of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION'S fleet is traced for the twenty-two years which elapsed between 1850, when the Society had got into regular working order, and...
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FEBRUARY 2ND. - CROMER, NORFOLK.
At 9.37 A.M. the Cromer coastguard telephoned that a vessel, about one and a half miles north of Cromer, had reported that she had a man on board dangerously ill. The coastguard also...
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