FEBRUARY MEETING IN  ERKEITHING, FIFESHIRE. On the afternoon of the 9th January, 1940, the S.S.

Elizabeth Bromley was taken from harbour to an anchorage four hundred yards out, in readiness to sail in the morning. The sea was calm, but, owing to fog, visibility was almost nil. After securing the ship the crew of four boarded the 12-foot dinghy to go ashore. The time was now about 4.40 P.M.

They lost their bearings and stopped. One man stood up in the bow, but when the rower started again the man lost his balance, and the boat was capsized. Two men on shore, one a crane driver and the other a seaman, but both non-swimmers, put out to the rescue in a 14-feet dinghy. They found three of the steamer’s crew clinging to the upturned boat and took them aboard ; they also found the fourth man, who was unconscious, and towed him ashore. Soldiers.

helped to get the men ashore and applied artificial respiration, but the unconscious man could not be revived.

The rescue took place some fifty yards from the shore and lasted about thirty minutes. The rescuers ran considerable risk in getting three helpless men aboard their dinghy. - Rewards, £2, and a letter of thanks to the soldiers. weather was very cold, and a heavy sea was running. The accident was seen on shore,

BRIGHTON, SUSSEX, About 11.45 in the and three men at once put out in a rowing boat. They found the tail of the machine morning of the 10th January, 1940, a naval sticking out of the water, with the pilot, the only man in the aeroplane, clinging to it with only his head out of the water. They aeroplane, K.4627, swooped into the sea off broke an oar and, at some risk to themselves Palace Pier, owing to engine trouble. The in the heavy sea, they rescued him. He said that he was frozen and could not have held on much longer. Later, the aeroplane was salved by two shoreboats and the Shoreham Harbour life-boat. - Rewards, £2 17s, and 10s. for the broken oar.

(See Shoreham Harbour, " Accounts of Services by Life-boats,” page 22.)

FILEY, YORKSHIRE. At 4.50 in the afternoon of the 12th January, 1940, the coastguard reported that German aeroplanes had attacked a steamer, which had changed course. A light W.S.W. wind was blowing with a slight sea. Two cobles manned by eleven men put out, and found a large steamer, the Livemore, of London, off Filey Brigg. She had been hit by a bomb, but it had failed to explode. She had her boats out, but she got them in again and was able to go on her way. Some distance off, the two cobles saw another vessel and went to her in case she wanted help. She was the steam trawler Riby, of Scarborough. Five bombs had been dropped at her. All had missed, but the shock had damaged her compasses and dynamo. Another boat escorted her back to Scarborough. - Rewards, £35 9S. 6d.