November Meeting.

Whitstable, Kent.—At about 11.30 A.M., on the 2nd October, 1938, the sailing dinghy Wana, of Whitstable, with one man on board, capsized about half a mile off Swale Cliff Rock. A moderate to fresh, squally, south breeze was blowing, with a rough sea and heavy rain. Mr. T. Harman, a fisherman, who was fishing near-by in his motor boat, saw the accident. He at once slipped his lines and went to the rescue.

At some risk he got the man, who was in a very exhausted condition, out of the water and landed him at Tankerton.

—Rewards, £l, also 2s. for fuel used.

December Meeting.

Nairn.—On the 27th January, 1937, George A. Ralph, his son, and grandson, rescued three of the crew of a Russian steamer. — Rewards : Bronze medal, vellums and monetary awards amount- ing to £7.

(For a full account of this service see page 23).

Boulmer, Northumberland.—At about 3 P.M. on the 14th November, 1938, a large R.A.F. aeroplane was seen to crash into the sea one and a half miles south of Boulmer in Alnmouth Bay.

The weather was fine, the sea smooth, and the tide low. Twelve men, mostly life-boatmen, manned two fast, power- ful cobles, which were lying afloat, and reached the scene shortly before an R.A.F. launch from Amble. Wreckage was found by dragging, but it could not be got to the surface. The crew of the plane, two in number, were lost.— Rewards, £12, with £l for use of boats, 16s. for fuel used, and 3s. for a helper on shore.

Withernsea, Yorkshire.—On the after- noon of the 2nd August, 1938, two women, visitors from Hull, who were bathing in a choppy sea off the groyne at the end of the South Promenade, Withernsea, got into difficulties. Two men swimmers put out to help. One man succeeded in saving one woman, but the other man was drowned. Two young men of Withernsea, a van driver, aged 19, and a shop assistant, aged 16, were on the beach with their rowing boat. A woman told them of the bather in difficulties about 100 yards out, and they at once put off.

With some difficulty, and at the risk of upsetting their boat in the choppy sea, they got her on board. She became unconscious, but was revived on shore.

—Rewards, £l 10s.

Whitbv, Yorkshire. — At about 9 A.M. ' on the 25th November, 1938, information was received from thehonorary secretary of the Runswick life-boat station that the motor fishing boat Venus, of Whitby, was in diffi- culties, -with her engine broken down, off Staithes. A strong S.S.W. offshore wind was blowing with a moderately rough sea. Four men put out in the 46-feet motor fishing boat Endeavour, and found the Venus about one mile off Runswick Bay in danger of being blown out to sea. They took her in tow and brought her into Whitby Harbour.—Rewards, £2, and 6*. for fuel used.

Barmoutb, Merionethshire. — During the great gale on the 23rd November, 1988, a message reached the coastguard from Arthog post office that the station- master at Arthog had been marooned by the floods on the railway, not far from the station, and was in danger of being drowned. The Great Western Railway asked for help. The life-boat coxswain said that a punt could be sent and he asked for a lorry. This was sent as near to the quay, which was also flooded, as was possible, and the railway company also got a spare engine ready. The punt left the quay about 11.30 in the morning in charge of Mr.

T. Morris, a member of the coastguard, and his nephew Mr. W. Morris, the life-boat motor mechanic and the coxswain's son. The lorry took them as far as the railway station, and from there the engine took them as far as the south end of the Barmouth Viaduct. It could not go any farther, so the two men launched the punt here and rowed it to Barmouth Junction.

There they landed, carried the punt across the station, launched it in a field beside the railway and rowed to the place where the station-master was marooned. It was then very nearly three hours since they had set out. By this time the water had begun to go down and they arrived to find that a policeman and a farmer, roped together, had succeeded in wading to the station-master and rescuing him.— Rewards, £l.

Lynmouth, Devon. — On the llth November, 1938, three men put off in a motor boat as an aeroplane had been reported down in the sea.—Rewards, £l, and a letter of thanks.

(For a full account see Ilfracombe, "Services of the Life-boats," page 38.) Walton-on-Naze, Essex. — On the morning of the llth November, 1938, a youth launched a rubber canoe, hoisted sail and went south. The coastguard considered that he was in danger, as there was a heavy swell, with a S.S.E. breeze blowing, and reported to the life-boat honorary secretary. The life-boat coxswain and three other men put off in a 17-feet rowing boat, and as the sea was increasing they took the youth aboard and towed the canoe to safety.— Rewards, £1 10s.

Campbeltown, Argyllshire.—At about 11 A.M. on the 18th November, 1938, three men in the small motor fishing boat Mary, of Campbeltown, were caught by a rising southerly gale with a choppy sea when returning to harbour.

The boat's engine was flooded by the sea and she was driven towards the shore near Trench Point. Men on watch for her saw that she was in distress, and four men in the 42-feet motor fishing boat Pioneer put out to her help. They had some difficulty, and ran some risk, in getting a rope aboard the Mary, and towed her in.— Rewards, £l 10*., and 3s. for fuel used.

January Meeting.

Drum more, Wigtownshire. — During the afternoon of the 14th November, 1938, the steamer Ben May sprang a leak and sank in East Tarbert Bay.

Her crew of five took to the ship's boat, and at the request of the coast- guard, three men put out in a motor fishing boat and towed them into Drummore Harbour.—Rewards, £l 10s., and 3s. for fuel used.

Arklow, Co. Wicklow — On the 28th November, 1938, five men while out in their fishing boat rendered help to the trawler Roaming, of Arklow.—Rewards, £2 10s., with £5 for loss of fishing, and 3s. 4 i. for fuel used.

(For a full account see Arklow " Services of the Life-boats, " page 37.).