NOVEMBER MEETING MARGATE, KENT. About eight, in the morning of 12th June, 1940, two men and a boy, who were out fishing in a motor boat near the East Margate buoy, saw two aeroplanes fighting seven miles to the N.E., and one of the aeroplanes diving into the sea. They hauled in their gear at once and went to the rescue.

After searching for two hours they picked up two German airmen and landed them at Margate. - Rewards, £2 for loss of fishing and 10s. for fuel used.

TIREE. ARGYLLSHIRE. About 8.50 in the morning of the 12th August, 1940, a ship’s boat was sighted off Hough Skerries. A south-westerly breeze was blowing, with a heavy swell. Six men put out in a motor boat. picked up the ship’s boat. three miles off shore, with no one on board, and brought her in. - Rewards, £2 10s.

MARGATE, KENT. On the morning of the 12th August, 1940, the minesweepers Pyrope and Tamarisk were attacked by German aeroplanes and sank. Two men out fishing in a motor boat, about a mile west of East Margate Buoy, saw the action some three miles to the north east of them. After the attackers had left, the fishing boat hauled her gear and went to the spot. Margate life-boat had been launched, and rescued twenty-seven survivors, and the motor boat only picked up one man and put him on board the life-boat. - Rewards, £1 5s. for loss of fishing and 5s. for fuel used.

(See Margate, “Accounts of Services by Life-boats,” page 94.)

ROSSCARBERY, CO. CORK. At 1.45 in the afternoon of the 21st August, 1940, four young men put out in a small rowing boat for pleasure. When they were about half a mile from the pier a very strong northerly wind sprang up. They tried to get back and broke two oars. Their boat drifted helplessly out to sea. Four men put out in a boat and reached the drifting boat when she was nearing the rocks off Galley Head. At considerable risk in the rough sea they towed her to the beach, as it was impossible to get back to Rosscarbery. - Rewards, £3.

HAYLING ISLAND, HAMPSHIRE. About 6.30 in the morning of the 27th August, 1940, two men, father and son, were out in the Emsworth Channel, in a motor fishing boat, when they saw an airman floating near the Thorney side. They picked him up, and while one man gave him artificial respiration the other continued to search for other airmen about the entrance to Chichester Harbour.He could see nothing, so the two men landed the rescued airman at Sandy Point, and he was taken to hospital, while a naval officer continued the search in a motor boat.- Rewards, £1 10s. and 2s. 6d. for fuel used.

The rewards were given back to the Institution.

MARGATE, KENT. Just before 1 in the afternoon of the 28th August, 1940, an aeroplane fell into the sea two miles north of Foreness Point. The Margate life-boat went out, but two men who were fishing in a motor boat, two miles N.E. of Longnose Buoy, had seen the crash. They buoyed their gear, went to the aeroplane, which was some fifty yards away, picked up two survivors, and transferred them to the life-boat.

- Rewards, £1 5s. for loss of fishing and 2s. 6d. for fuel used.

(See Margate. “Accounts of Services by Life-boats,” page 98.) MARGATE, KENT. About 9 in the morning of the 31st August, 1940, a German aeroplane dived into the sea some four miles north-east of Margate jetty. Two men on their way to the fishing grounds in a motor boat picked up one survivor and landed him at Margate.- Rewards, £1 5s. for loss of fishing and 3s.

for fuel used.

ILFRACOMBE, DEVON. About 11 in the morning of the 5th September, 1940, a man got into difficulties on Haggington Cliffs, Hele Bay. The weather was fair. Gwyn H . Cornish, a boy of fifteen, was out in the bay in his small dinghy when he saw the man’s plight and signalled to another man to go to the coastguard station for help. After a coastguard had got down to the trapped man and lowered him to the beach, Cornish took his boat in through the rocks, got the man on board and then put him ashore at an accessible spot. Cornish was reported to have given similar help on other occasions.

- Reward, a framed letter of thanks.

HERNE BAY, KENT. About mid-day on the 15th September, 1940, a German aeroplane crashed into the sea about three miles N.E. of Whitstable pier. Four men in two motor boats put out from Herne Bay, but found nothing. - Rewards, £1 10s. and 5s. for fuel used.

FOLKESTONE, KENT. Shortly before ten in the morning of the 23rd September, 1940, a German aeroplane came down in the sea about half-way between the pier of the Southern Railway and Copt Point. Two men in a fishing boat, which was near, went at once to the rescue, and an army officer and a lance-corporal jumped into the sea from Folkestone pier, and swam to the aeroplane.

The lance-corporal reached it first, found that the pilot was badly wounded, and helped him into the fishing boat which had now arrived. - Rewards, 15s. and 2s. 6d. for fuel used.

FRESHWATER, ISLE OF WIGHT. On the afternoon of the 24th September, 1940, aGerman aeroplane came down in the sea off Black Wood Point. A man put off in his motor boat and searched for survivors, but found only a patch of oil. - Rewards, 10s.

FOLKESTONE, KENT. About 12.30 in the afternoon of 27th September, 1940, a British aeroplane was reported to be down in the sea 300 yards east of the pier of the Southern Railway. The pilot of another aeroplane had seen it, and landed on the beach. He at once joined six men who were preparing to launch two boats. One of the boats found the pilot, but he was dead. - Rewards, £2 5s.

HASTINGS, SUSSEX. While on their way to the fishing grounds in Rye Bay about 9 in the morning of the 27th September, 1940, two men in a motor boat saw a patch of smoke some distance away. The weather was fair. They went to investigate and at about 10.45 found a German airman. They picked him up and brought him ashore. - Rewards, 15s., £3 for loss of fishing and. 10s. for fuel used.

HELMSDALE. SUTHERLAND. About 5.15 in the evening of 2nd October, 1940, a British aeroplane was seen to crash into the sea and sink, and the coastguard asked a boatman to go out to the rescue. The tide was low. and the man’s motor boat was aground,. but he and four other men with some difficulty got her afloat, found a rubber dinghy three miles out., and rescued an airman from it. He was unhurt, but wet, through, and they supplied him with dry clothes. - Rewards. £5 and 2s. 6d. for fuel used.

BONCHURCH, ISLE OF WIGHT. About 11 at night on the 11th October, 1940, the Admiralty trawler Warwick Deeping was in distress some two miles south of St.

Catherine’s Point after being attacked from the air. Two men put out in a motor boat and found that the crew of the trawler, twenty-five in number, had got away in the ship’s boat and a Carley float. The two men picked them up and brought them ashore.

They also brought in the ship’s boat, the float, a Lewis gun and rifles and handed them to the naval authorities. The Bembridge life-boat was also launched. - Rewards, £5.

(See Bembridge, “ Accounts of Services by Life-boats,” page 114.).