Two more false alarms have to be added to those which were mentioned in an article in The Lifeboat in November 1926. On the evening of 1st August, an aeroplane passed over Selsey, and a parachute was seen to drop from it and fall into the sea about a mile and a half from the shore. The Motor Life-boat was launched and cruised about for nearly an hour, but found no trace either of a man or the parachute. She returned to shore to find that the parachute had been sent down with a dummy attached.

A similar incident occurred off the Isle of Wight on 12th August. The Yarmouth Motor Life-boat was warned, but before it put out enquiries were made by telephone to the seaplane station at_Calshot and it was found that airmen were practising dropping parachutes with dummies..