Launches 70. Lives rescued 49.

JULY 2ND. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. At 11.15 P.M. a message was received from the coastguard that a vessel was on fire about five miles south-west of Shoreham. A fresh westerly wind was blowing, with a rough sea. At 11.25 P.M. the motor life-boat Rosa Woodd and Phyllis Lunn was launched and found that two patrol yachts had picked up three survivors from the motor yacht Pappillon, of Shoreham, which was on fire. An attempt was made to transfer the survivors from the patrol vessels to the life-boat, but it was found impossible in the rough sea. One of the patrol vessels then went, to Littlehampton with two of the survivors on board, and the second, Montigo Bay, asked  the life-boat to escort her into Shoreham Harbour. Enemy aircraft appeared overhead shortly after the life-boat left the blazing wreck, and dropped bombs near it. The life-boat wirelessed for permission to enter the harbour, and put a member of her crew aboard the Montigo Bay to pilot her in. The third survivor from the yacht was then taken to hospital. The lifeboat returned to her station at 1 A.M . - Rewards, £9.

JULY 3RD. - GOURDON, KINCARDINESHIRE.

At 7.15 P.M. a three-engined enemy bomber was attacked by British fighter aeroplanes, north-east of Gourdon. In a few minutes the bomber crashed into the sea.

A light south-west breeze was blowing and the sea was smooth. At 7.40 P.M. the motor life-boat Margaret Dawson was launched and found the bomber half a mile off Fowlshaugh Cliffs, six miles north-east of Gourdon. It was nearly submerged and none of the crew could be seen. The life-boat picked up its dinghy, and other oddments of wreckage, and went to Stonehaven to report, returning to her station at 1.40 A.M. the next morning.

- Rewards, £20 11s. 6d.

JULY 5TH . - MARGATE, KENT. At 3.30 P.M. a message was received from the coastguard that a rubber boat had been seen one and a half miles off St. Mildred’s Bay, Westgate. A light north-westerly breeze was blowing  and the sea was smooth  A t 3.45 P.M. the motor life-boat The Lord Southborough (Civil Service No. 1) was launched and she found a dinghy, but no one was on board. She towed it in and returned to her station at 5 P.M. - Rewards, £5 11s. 6d.

JULY 9TH. - SALCOMBE, AND TORBAY, DEVON. At 7.10 P.M. the Prawle Point Signal Station reported that a vessel was being bombed by enemy aeroplanes three or four miles away. A fresh S.W. wind was blowing, but the sea was smooth. At 7.30 P.M.

the Salcombe motor life-boat Samuel and Marie Parkhouse was launched. A motor boat, manned by three men, was also sent out from Lannercombe, as the vessel was sinking fast. The motor boat reached the vessel first, and found her to be the steamer Talvaldis, of Riga. She had not only been bombed, but had been repeatedly machinegunned, and one of her crew had been killed.

The rest abandoned ship. The motor boat rescued six of them from a raft and then stood by the steamer’s boat, with six more men on board, which was water-logged.

When the life-boat arrived at 8.45 P.M., she rescued the six men from the water-logged boat ; took on board all the men from the motor boat ; and then towed the motor boat to Lannercombe. She arrived back at her station at 10 o’clock.

News of the attack on the steamer was also sent to Torbay, and the motor life-boat George Shee put out at 7.39 P.M. On her way she passed the Dutch motor vessel Jola, which had also been attacked. She was making for Dartmouth with three of her crew wounded by machine-gun bullets. The George Shee arrived at the scene of the attack on the Talvaldis to find that the men had been rescued, and returned to her station, arriving at midnight. - Rewards, Salcombe, £10 15s. ; Torbay, £9 ; the three men in the shoreboat, 10s. each and 6s. for fuel used.

(See Lannercombe, Salcombe, “ Services by Shoreboats “, page 146.)

JULY 9TH. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO. WEXFORD. At 8.35 in the morning the Arklow smack St. Gerrade put into Rosslare Harbour and reported that a yacht was sinking on the North Dogger Bank, Wexford Bar. The skipper had tried, but without success, to take his own boat alongside. A moderate S.W. gale was blowing with rain and a rough sea on the bank. The motor life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson was launched at 8.49 A.M. She saw wreckage, and three of her crew waded ashore and searched the bank, but all they found was a dinghy. While this was being done the lifeboat received a wireless message that the crew of three of the yacht - the Shielia. of Dublin - had got ashore. The life-boat returned at 11.2 A.M. with the dinghy in tow.

- Partly permanent paid crew ; Rewards, £3 5s. 6d.

JULY 10TH. - COURTMACSHERRY HARBOUR, CO. CORK. During the morning news was received from the intelligence officer, Cork, that a ship’s life-boat was drifting helplessly about thirteen miles south of Galley Head Lighthouse. A moderate W.S.W. wind was blowing and the sea was calm. The motor life-boat Sarah Ward and William David Crosweller was launched at 7.5 A.M. and found the boat with no one on board but with her gear intact. She was marked S.S. Georgios Kyriakides, of Andros.

The life-boat towed her in and returned to her station at 8.55 A.M. - Rewards, £4 17s. 6d.

JULY 10TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON. NORFOLK. At about 4.15 P.M. the naval authorities asked the life-boat to go out to a trawler which was coming into the roadstead with survivors, some injured, from a vessel which had been sunk by enemy action. A light S.E. breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea. The motor life-boat Louise Stephens was launched at 4.35 P.M. with a doctor and ambulance men on board. On her way the life-boat was signalled by one of H.M. sloops and asked to pick up her pinnace, which, with six men on board, was drifting with her engine broken down. This the life-boat did. and towed the pinnace to the sloop. She then saw H.M. trawler Epine coming in, with two boats in tow, went alongside and took on board twenty survivors from the S.S. Waterloo.

Among them was a man with fractured legs.

The twenty men were landed and the lifeboat was moored afloat ready for service at 6.20 P.M. Later a signal was received from the captain of the sloop thanking the lifeboat crew for their services to his pinnace.

- Rewards, £3 8s. 6d.

JULY 11TH. - YOUGHAL, CO. CORK.

During the afternoon of the 10th of July a party of two men and three children went in a rowing boat up the River Blackwater.

They were expected back at nine in the evening, and as they did not return much anxiety was felt, for the river was in flood and can be very difficult and dangerous, especially in the dark. A N.W. breeze was blowing and the water was choppy. At 12.15 A.M. on the 11th the motor life-boat Laurana Sarah Blunt was launched. With the help of her searchlight she found the boat and towed her back, with all on board.

She returned to her station at 1.15 A.M. - Rewards, £10 11s.

JULY 11TH. - WEYMOUTH, DORSET.

At 8.15 A.M. the life-boat station was informed that an air battle was imminent. A fresh westerly wind was blowing, with a rough sea. A few minutes later it was reported that an armed yacht ten miles S.E.

of Grove Point had been bombed and at 8.30 A.M. the motor life-boat William and Clara Ryland was launched. She could not find the yacht. Later, news was sent to her by wireless that an aeroplane was in distress ten miles S.E. of Portland Bill, but this also the life-boat could not find. All this time a big air fight was going on above the life-boat between very numerous German aeroplanes and British fighters, and shrapnel and machine-gun bullets were falling round her, but no one in the life-boat was hit. One German aeroplane was shot down and fell within a few yards of the life-boat. She rescued one of its crew, but the others sank with the aeroplane, The life-boat returned to her station at 1.30 P.M. - Rewards, £3 15s.

destroyer, H.M.S. Valorous, was approaching the roadstead. On board were survivors from the S.S. Heworth, of Newcastle, which JULY 1 1TH. - SELSEY, SUSSEX. At 6.25 P.M. the coastguard saw a British aeroplane brought down by the enemy off Selsey Bill. A strong S.W. breeze was blowing, but there was only a slight sea. The motor life-boat Canadian Pacific was launched at 6.30 P.M. and at about 7 P.M. she found a British airman in the sea some three and a half miles S.W. of Selsey Bill. He had been in the sea for three-quarters of an hour and was exhausted, but unhurt. On returning with the rescued man at 7.55 P.M. the lifeboat learned that a German aeroplane had crashed five miles south of Owers Lightvessel.

She went out again at 8.10 P.M. and reached the position about 9.10 P.M., but saw nothing except, a large patch of oil. She returned to her station at 10.30 P.M.

A letter of thanks was received by the coxswain from the rescued airman, who is a squadron leader. He said : " When you arrived I had given up hope. I doubt if I could have lasted more than a few minutes.

Your skill in finding me in that rough sea seems a miracle to me. You and your fellows in the Life-boat Service are doing a magnificent job.” A few days later the airman won the D.F.C. - Rewards, £11 3s. and £8 15s.

JULY 13TH. - HASTINGS, SUSSEX. At 4.8 P.M. the coastguard reported a waterlogged boat about a mile S.W. of the coastguard station. The sea was slight with a moderate S.W wind blowing. At 4.28 P.M.

the motor life-boat Cyril and Lilian Bishop was launched and found and brought in the boat. It was without oars or sails, but had clothing and a typewriter aboard. Meanwhile another boat had been reported drifting, bottom up, off the bathing pool. The lifehad been sunk by enemy action, and the destroyer requested that the life-boat should bring the survivors ashore. A moderate N.N.E. breeze was blowing, and the sea was smooth. At 6.30 P . M . the motor life-boat Louise Stephens put out, with a doctor and ambulance men on board, and went alongside the destroyer in the roadstead. The doctor and ambulance men were put on board her, and then 14 survivors were transferred to the life-boat. Seven of them were injured, and five of these were stretcher cases.

They were all made as comfortable as possible on board with blankets, and the life-boat landed them at Lower Ferry steps. The injured were taken to hospital by ambulance and the others to the Sailors’ Home by coach.

The life-boat returned to her station at 8 P.M.

- Rewards, £6 5s. 6d.

JULY 16TH. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO. WEXFORD. During the evening a flatbottomed fishing boat, the Spitfire, of Rosslare Harbour, was bound for Tuskar with a crew of four. A S.W. wind was blowing.

It increased and backed to the north, bringing up a rough sea. The Spitfire was seen to be in distress, and at 8 P.M. the motor life-boat K.E.C.F. was launched. She found the boat about four miles to the south and towed her in, returning to her station at 9.25 P.M. - Paid permanent crew ; Rewards, 12s.

JULY 19TH . - ARRANMORE , C O. DONEGAL. At about noon a man reported a ship’s boat drifting off the island. The weather was moderate with a S.W. wind.

At 8 P.M. the motor life-boat K.T.J.S. was launched, and found the boat with no one in it. She towed it in, arriving at her station at 8 P.M. - Rewards, £8 3s. 6d.

JULY 21ST. - SWANAGE, DORSET. At 6.14 P.M. the coastguard reported a vessel on fire some ten miles or more to the S.E. A boat picked this boat up off Hastings Pier and brought it in. She went out a third time to see if there was anything else, and picked westerly breeze was blowing, with a moderate up yet another water-logged boat, which she swell. The motor life-boat Thomas Markby brought in. The second boat was marked was launched at 6.27 P.M., and found the Mallard, of London, the first and third Kolga, S.S. Kollskegg, of Oslo, an oil tanker of about 5,000 tons. She was ablaze in the fore part, of Tallinn, and all were handed over to the receiver of wrecks. - Rewards, £23 15s. 9d.

and that part of the hull was red hot. Her bridge and superstructure had been smashed JULY 14TH. SHOREHAM HARBOUR, to pieces. There was no one on board. All SUSSEX. At about 2.22 A.M. the Brighton her crew had been taken off by a destroyer.

The steamer appeared to have been attacked coast-watching sea scout reported an aero- by aeroplanes. The life-boat stood by until plane down in the sea two miles south of a tug arrived. Then she put four men aboard Saltdean. The sea was smooth, with light north-easterly airs. The motor life-boat the Kollskegg to help in getting the hawser Rosa Woodd and Phyllis Lunn was launched from the tug connected. The tug took the steamer in tow and the life-boat returned to at 3.8 A.M and at about 4 A.M. found the her station at 12.15 A.M. - Rewards, £14 2s.

wreckage of an R.A.F. machine. She picked up three dead bodies and brought them in, returning to her station at 7 A.M. - Rewards, JULY 21ST. - CLOGHER HEAD, CO.

£14 9s. 6d.

LOUTH. At 10.15 P.M. the civic guard reported a boat in distress about four miles JULY 15TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND to the north. A north-westerly off-shore GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At about 6 P.M.

wind was blowing, with a choppy sea. The a message was received from the naval motor life-boat Mary Ann Blunt was launched authorities at Great Yarmouth that at 10.25 P.M. and searched for the missing boat, which was the motor fishing boat NorthStar, of Annagassan, with a crew of seven.

Later the North Star was seen making for Port Oriel under oars, and her position was signalled to the life-boat, which went to her and escorted her into Port Oriel at about 11.15 P . M . The life-boat returned to her station at 1.30 A.M. - Rewards, £11 6s.

JULY 21ST. - LYTHAM - ST. ANNES, LANCASHIRE. At 9.45 P.M. the harbour master reported that a minesweeper was aground east of Gut Gas Buoy. A strong S.W. breeze was blowing, with a rough sea.

Another message said that the trawler was all right, but the honorary secretary of the life-boat station was of opinion that the minesweeper was in a dangerous position ; the naval authorities agreed ; and the life-boat put out. At 11 P.M. the motor life-boat Dunleary was launched and found that the minesweeper had just refloated. She stood by her until she was well clear of the bank, and returned to her station at 3.30 A.M.- Rewards, £9 11s.

JULY 22ND. - HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY.

At 1.45 P.M. the coastguard reported that an Admiralty trawler had been blown up off the end of the breakwater. The weather was fine with a calm sea. The motor life-boat A.E.D. was launched at 1.55 P.M., with James Bell, one of the crew, acting as coxswain, but found only a dead body. Three injured men had been saved by a patrol boat. The remainder must have been killed. - Rewards, £4 7s. 6d.

JULY 23RD. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. At 6 P.M. information was received from the Mersey Dock Board that a fishing vessel was ashore on Burbo Bank, west of the training wall. There was not sufficient water to get near the vessel, but she was kept under observation. At 7.35 P.M.

it was reported that she was lying comfortably, high and dry. The weather was fine, but later it became threatening, with squalls of heavy rain and wind, and at 10.30 P.M.

the No. 2 motor life-boat Edmund and Mary Robinson was launched and found the vessel to be the auxiliary fishing smack Alice, of New Brighton, with a crew of three. The Alice refloated at 12.45 A.M., and the life-boat escorted her into the channel to a safe anchorage near the Brazil Buoy. There the examination vessel ordered her to remain until daylight. The life-boat returned to her station at 1.30 A.M. - Rewards, £10 10s.

JULY  25TH . - DOVER, KENT . At 3.10 P.M. the Sandgate coastguard reported that a vessel which had been attacked by German aeroplanes was sinking off Sandgate, but said that naval motor boats were going to her help. At 3.30 P.M. it was reported that the motor vessel Summity, of London, had been beached near Shakespeare Cliff and needed medical aid. A light W.S.W.

wind was blowing, with a slight sea. With a naval surgeon on board, the motor life-boat Agnes Cross, on temporary duty at the station, put out at 4 P.M. She found that a wounded man had already been landed in the ship’s boat, but she rescued the remaining seven members of the crew. When returning to Dover she went alongside another steamer, the Gronland, which had a man wounded.

The naval surgeon went aboard, and then the wounded man was transferred to the life-boat, which landed him and the seven rescued men at Dover at 5.45 P.M. - Partly paid permanent crew ; rewards, £3 16s.

JULY 26TH. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. At about 7.30 A.M. a message was received from the resident naval officer that the steamer Lulonga had been torpedoed.

A moderate S.W. breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea. With an armed guard aboard, the motor life-boat Rosa Woodd and Phyllis Lunn was launched at 8.5 A.M., and from vessels which had safely come to anchor learnt the position where a convoy had been attacked. She made for this position, and when about seven miles W.S.W. of Shoreham, found a boat with thirteen survivors from S.S. Broadhurst, of London. She took them on board, went on and found another boat belonging to the S.S. London Trader. This steamer also had been torpedoed and twelve survivors from her crew were in the boat.

As some of the rescued men were injured. the life-boat searched no further but made for harbour, arriving at 10.50 A.M. Half an hour later she put out again, but found no more survivors, and it was learnt later that survivors from the Lulonga had been picked up by other boats and taken to Littlehampton.

- Rewards, £10 5s.

JULY 28TH. - THURSO, CAITHNESSSHIRE.

At 3.45 A.M. information was received from the Wick coastguard that a steamer was on fire N.N.W. of Strathy Head.

A N.W. breeze was blowing, with a choppy sea. The motor life-boat H.C.J. was launched at 4 A.M. and met an Aberdeen trawler, which told her that the steamer was the S.S. Orlock Head, of Belfast, that she herself had rescued part of her crew. and that a Grimsby trawler was rescuing the remainder. The Orlock Head, which was bound from the Tyne to Liverpool with cement, had been attacked by a German aeroplane with bombs and machinegun fire. Two of her crew of twenty had been killed and several injured. The lifeboat accompanied the Aberdeen trawler into Scrabster Harbour, and then put out again to meet the Grimsby trawler, in case she should want to transfer the rescued men to her, but the trawler brought them into harbour herself, and the life-boat returned to her station at 7.30 A.M. - Rewards, £7 7s. 6d.

JULY 29TH. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. At 9.35 A.M. the Hoylake coastguard reported that a vessel had struck a mine. A fresh N.W. breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea. The No. 2 motor lifeboat Edmund and Mary Robinson put out at 9.49 A.M. and spoke a pilot boat when near the Crosby Light-vessel. The pilot boat had on board thirty-seven survivors of the S.S.. Ousebridge, of West Hartlepool, including three injured men. Two other members of the crew were missing. The pilot boat hadin tow the ship’s boat with two pilot apprentices on board, and at her request the lifeboat took over the tow. She landed the apprentices in Liverpool, where the pilot boat had landed the 37 survivors. The lifeboat then took the ship’s boat to Birkenhead and returned to her station at 12.50 P.M.- Rewards £5 3s. 9d.

The following life-boats were launched, but no services were rendered for the reasons given JULY 2ND. - EXMOUTH, AND TORBAY, DEVON. A vessel had been reported on fire six miles S.E by S. of Berry Head, but the Torbay life-boat could find nothing. Next day the life-boats at Exmouth and Torbay were launched to a vessel reported to be on fire, and believed to be the same vessel, but they were recalled as it was learned that the crew had abandoned the vessel. - Rewards : Exmouth, £7 0S. 6d. ; Torbay, £9 15s. and £3 17s. 6d.

JULY 5TH. - SWANAGE, DORSET. A vessel had been reported on fire five miles off St. Albans Head, but nothing could be found. News was received later that the vessel had been towed into port. She had formed part of a convoy which had been attacked and compelled to scatter. - Rewards, £12 10s. 6d.

JULY 6TH. - HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY.

An aeroplane had crashed into the sea in Aberffraw Bay, but nothing could be found.

- Rewards. £6 5s.

JULY 7TH - ALDEBURGH, SUFFOLK.

An aeroplane was reported to have come down in the sea off Orfordness, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £26 17s.

JULY 8TH. - DOVER, KENT. A naval trawler had been sunk by enemy action, but the only survivor was picked up by a motor torpedo boat. - Partly permanent paid crew ; Rewards, £6 6s JULY 8TH. - DUNGENESS, KENT. An airman had been seen. descending by parachute about ten miles E.N.E. of Dungeness, but he was picked up by a destroyer and landed at Dover. - Rewards, £11 0S. 6d.

JULY 9TH. - MARGATE, KENT. An empty, waterlogged, rubber dinghy was picked up, and it was learned that an airman had been saved by an Admiralty trawler and a dead body picked up by an Admiralty yacht. - Rewards, £5 11s. 6d.

JULY 1 0TH. - SELSEY, SUSSEX. An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea five miles north of Selsey Bill, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £6 3s. 6d.

JULY 10TH. - DUNGENESS, KENT. Information had been received that three aeroplanes had fallen into the sea. Many of the men were away fishing, but a crew was obtained, and with the help of women the life-boat was launched. At the time an attack was being made by German aeroplanes on a convoy. The life-boat found nothing except wreckage and German clothing, which was handed over to the authorities. - Rewards, £8 1s. 6d.

JULY 11TH. - BLYTH, NORTHUMBERLAND.

In the belief that a vessel had been blown up, the life-boat put out, but found that a mine had been exploded by minesweepers.

- Rewards, £5 6s.

JULY 12TH. - WEYMOUTH, DORSET.

Aircraft had been reported down in the sea, but nothing could be found and no one could have lived in the rough sea. - Rewards, £13 2s. 6d.

JULY 13TH. - WICKLOW. A steamer grounded on the North Arklow Bank, but got off unaided and went on her way.- Rewards, £10 13s.

JULY 13TH. - YARMOUTH, ISLE OF WIGHT. Aircraft had been reported down but nothing could be found. The life-boat was short of her regular crew, but the honorary secretary, Captain A. G. Cole, the district inspector, Commander E. D. Drury, O.B.E., R.D., R.N.R., Surgeon-Commander Davis, R.N.V.R. , and the Institution’s travelling mechanic, J. J. Pratt, all went out in the life-boat. - Rewards, £3 2s. 6d.

JULY 13TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK. An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea twenty-five miles E.N.E. of Cromer, but the crew of three were picked up by a patrol vessel-Rewards, £13 6s. 6d.

JULY 14TH. - BALTIMORE, CO. CORK.

A seaplane had been reported down in the sea six miles N.W. of Cape Clear, but no trace of any machine could be found.- Rewards, £11 4s.

JULY 16TH. - ABERDEEN. A vessel had been reported on fire, but no vessel in need of help could be found. - Rewards, £12 4s. 9d.

JULY 16TH. - BALLYCOTTON, CO. CORK. A small fishing boat had had her sails blown away in a squall, but the only man aboard declined the life-boat’s help and was helped by a motor boat. - Rewards, £4 10s. 6d.

JULY 17TH. - NEWHAVEN, SUSSEX.

A cable layer had struck a mine, but patrol boats picked up the survivors. - Rewards, £ 5 5 s .

JULY 18TH. - POOLE AND BOURNEMOUTH,. DORSET. A service aeroplane had come down in the sea, but the pilot was picked up by another boat. - Rewards, £ 3 5 s .

JULY 18TH. - WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. The Sunk Light-vessel had been attacked by enemy aircraft, but TrinityHouse steamers went to her help. - Rewards, £20 12s.

JULY 19TH. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. A German aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £4 10s.

JULY 19TH. - SELSEY; SUSSEX. During an air battle a German aeroplane had come down off Aldwick and other machines had come down further eastward, but nothing except a patch of oil was found. - Rewards, £l5 10s. 6d.

JULY 19TH. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. A R.A.F. aeroplane had come down off Littlehampton, but the life-boat was recalled as the pilot had got ashore without help. - Rewards, £7 15s. 6d.

JULY 2 0TH. - MARGATE, KENT. An airman was reported to have come down by parachute in the sea off Kingsgate, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £14 3s. 6d.

JULY 20TH. - DOVER, KENT. An aeroplane believed to be German had crashed two miles off, but nothing was found. - Partly paid permanent crew. Rewards, £4 15s.

JULY 20TH. - BALTIMORE, CO. CORK.

Information had been received that a cargo boat had been torpedoed, but though the life-boat searched for a long time in the neighbourhood of the Fastnet Rock she found nothing. - Rewards, £16 16s.

JULY 20TH. - DONAGHADEE, CO. DOWN. A vessel had struck a mine in Belfast Lough, but her crew had got ashore in the ship’s boats. - Rewards, £4 10s.

JULY 20T H . - SELSEY, SUSSEX. A British aeroplane had been reported down in the sea fifteen miles south of Bognor, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £15 10s. 6d.

JULY 22ND. - EXMOUTH, DEVON. Red flares had been reported, but the naval authorities sent a message that the life-boat was not needed and she was recalled. - Rewards, £13 0S. 6d.

JULY 23RD . - NEW  BRIGHTON , CHESHIRE. A heavy explosion had been heard from a steamer and she was found lying on her side, but no sign of her crew was found. They must all have been lost. - Rewards, £7 12s. 6d.

JULY 23RD. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but a patrol vessel picked up the pilot, a German. - Rewards, £12 18s.

JULY 24TH. - RAMSGATE. KENT. It had been reported that a convoy had been attacked and that an aeroplane had come down, but though the life-boat found that a convoy had been bombed, she could not find any aeroplane. - Rewards, £5 3s.JULY 24TH. - PENLEE, CORNWALL.

An unknown bomber was believed to have crashed in the sea as lights were seen on the water after she had passed, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £8 13s. 6d.

JULY 25TH. - DUNGENESS, KENT. A steamer in a convoy was sinking as the result of enemy action, but there was no one on board. The life-boat remained by until she sank, and then found that the crew had been rescued by another vessel. - Rewards, £9 8s. 6d.

JULY 26TH. - CROMER. NORFOLK. An aeroplane had crashed on the Outer Bank, but the life-boat found that she had been smashed and there was nothing to be done.

- Rewards, £13 4s.

(See Haisborough, “ Services by Shoreboats “, page 148.) JULY 28TH. - TYNEMOUTH, NORTHUMBERLAND.

A naval patrol vessel had sent out an S.O.S. as her steering column had broken, but she was able to repair it.- Rewards, £8 2s.

JULY 29TH. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. A motor trawler had been blown up by an enemy mine, but the life-boat found nothing. - Rewards, £5 2s. 6d.

JULY 29TH. - RAMSEY, AND PEEL, ISLE OF MAN An aeroplane had been reported to Ramsey as having fallen into the sea six miles S.W. of Burrow Head, and the Ramsey life-boat was launched, as the Kirkcudbright life-boat was off service. At Peel the aero- plane was reported to be down six miles S.W. of Bradda Head. Each life-boat went to the position given it, but could find no sign of any aeroplane. - Rewards : Ramsey, £29 3s. 6d. ; Peel, £22 14s.

JULY 29TH. - HELVICK HEAD, CO. WATERFORD. A light which might have been a distress signal had been seen, but no vessel in distress could be found. - Rewards, £13 7s.

JULY 30TH. - FENIT, CO. KERRY. A Belfast steamer had been torpedoed, and her crew had got away in the ship’s boats, and one of them was missing, but while the life-boat was searching for her she got ashore at Clifton. Bay, Co. Galway. - Rewards, £9 1s.