DECEMBER MEETING DUNGENESS, KENT. About 11.30 in the morning of the 26th September, 1940, an R.A.F. pilot baled out from his aeroplane and came down in the sea five miles S.W.

by W. of Galloways. The weather was moderate. Four men in two motor boats, who were out fishing, went at once to his rescue. One boat picked up the airman, but her propeller was fouled and the other boat took her in tow. The men ran some risk of air-attack. - Rewards, £2, £3 for loss of fishing and 5s. for fuel used.

WARRENPOINT, CO. DOWN. About noon on the 20th October, 1940, a coast preventiveofficer engaged two boatmen, father and son, to take him out, in their pulling boat, to a steamer some three hundred yards from the jetty at Warrenpoint. They tied the boat to the steamer, and the officer and elder boatman went aboard her. When they got back into the boat, they were unable to release her from the steamer, which was now travelling at half speed, and she capsized, throwing the three men into the sea. After some time the son succeeded in getting to the boat, and the other two managed to keep afloat, by holding on to an oar and some wood. Fortunately the sea was calm. A boatman on the jetty put out alone in his rowing boat. He found the officer and older boatman exhausted and only half conscious. Unaided, with great difficulty and at great risk of capsizing his boat, he got them both into her and then picked up the young man. - Rewards, £1.

KILLYBEGS, CO. DONEGAL. In the early morning of 29th October, 1940, the motor fishing boat Orient Star was homeward bound for Killybegs. She had a crew of seven. A strong S.E. gale was blowing, with a rough sea. About two o’clock her engine failed.

The men tried to anchor, but the anchor would not hold, and the boat was carried towards the cliffs of Carrigan Head. They made signals of distress. and five men put out in a motor fishing boat Naomh Colum.

She shipped heavy seas and, at considerable risk to themselves, the five men succeeded in rescuing the crew of the Orient Star before she foundered. - Rewards, £5 and 5s. for fuel used.

CAPE CLEAR, CO. CORK. About 5.30 in the morning of 5th November, 1940, the steam trawler Rendlesham, of Lowestoft, struck a submerged rock on the N.W. point of Cape Clear Island. She had a crew of eleven men, and was loaded with fish. A moderate S.W.

wind was blowing, but the sea was very rough.

Where the Rendlesham struck was about a mile from the harbour. The news of the wreck reached Cape Clear about eight o’clock in the morning. and thirteen men put out in a motor boat and two punts. By the time they arrived the trawler was submerged ; six of her crew were drowned ; and the other five were clinging, exhausted, to the mast and rigging At risk to themselves in that rough sea, the men in the three boats rescued them, and then put them on board the Irish patrol boat Fort Rannock, which took them to Crookhaven. News of the wreck had reached the life-boat station at Baltimore still later, and by the time the life-boat arrived the men had been rescued. She brought back some of the rescuers from Crookhaven to Cape Clear. - Rewards, a framed letter of thanks to one of the rescuers, Mr. Kieran Cotter, a letter of thanks to another of the rescuers, the Rev. Father Patrick F. O’Donovan, C.C., £11 8s. and £5 for damage to boat, oars and line.

(See Baltimore, Accounts of Services by Life-boats,” page 124.)

VENTNOR, ISLE OF WIGHT. About 2.30 in the afternoon of the 7th November, 1940,a British aeroplane came down in the sea off Woody Point. Two boats put out, but they found only pieces of the aeroplane, which they brought ashore. - Rewards, £2.

HAYLING ISLAND, HAMPSHIRE. About 12.45 in the afternoon of the 10th November, 1940, two boys, between 10 and 12 years old, pushed a boat from the water’s edge and got into her. They were boys who had been evacuated to Hayling Island from an inland town on account of air-raids and they had no experience of boats. There was only one sound oar in the boat. She got caught by the strong ebbing tide and drifted toward a sandbank at the entrance to Chichester harbour. A very heavy squall came up, and four fishermen, who had rowed under Hayling Island to get shelter from the squall, saw the boys, went to their help, and reached them just before their boat grounded. They took the boat in tow, but it needed all the men’s efforts to row against the tide and the squall, and the boys would undoubtedly have been drowned but for their help. - Rewards, £3.

FOLKESTONE, KENT. About 9.30 A.M. on the 15th November, 1940, a German aeroplane came down in the sea one and a half miles S.E. of Copt Point. Two Folkestone fishing boats, one with a crew of four and the other with a crew of five, put out. All they found was a dead body. - Rewards, £4 10s. and 10s. for fuel used.

NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. At 2.30 in the afternoon of the 23rd November, 1940, the S.S. Biafra, lying off New Brighton, sounded a succession of blasts. The life-boat’s boarding boat, manned by a whole and a part-time mechanic, put out. As they reached the Biafra one of the steamer’s own boats was picking up a man in the water. He was unconscious. Another man was in the river, and the two boats searched but could not find him. The boarding boat then towed the ship’s boat to the Biafra, and brought the unconscious man ashore. The two men had either fallen or jumped overboard. - Rewards, 5s. to part-time mechanic.