OCTOBER MEETING FOLKESTONE, KENT. About mid-day on the 26th August, 1940, an aeroplane was seen down in the sea a mile from Copt Point,and three men put out in a rowing boat and succeeded in rescuing one German airman, who was transferred to a motor torpedo boat which had come out from Dover. - Rewards, £1 2s. 6d.

HERNE BAY, KENT. Shortly after mid-day on the 26th August, 1940, aeroplanes were seen to crash off Reculver and Herne Bay, and three parachutes to be coming down.

About four in the afternoon another aeroplane crashed off Herne Bay, and another man came down in the sea by parachute. Five men from Herne Bay put out in three motor boats and a rowing boat and rescued three British and two German airmen. - Rewards, £2 15s. and 7s. 6d. for fuel used.

HERNE BAY, KENT. About 1.30 in the afternoon of the 31st August, 1940, an aeroplane was seen to crash, and a parachute to descend, one mile N.E. of Reculver. The sea was smooth, with a light wind. A boatman at once launched his motor boat and made an unsuccessful search. Margate lifeboat also put out but found nothing.- Rewards, 7s. 6d. and 2s. 6d. for fuel used.

(See Margate, “ Accounts of Services by Life-boats,” page 101.) HERNE BAY, KENT. At 10.10 in the morning of the 3rd September, 1940, a parachute was seen coming down about seven miles N.E. of Reculver. The weather was fair.

Four men put out in a motor boat. Then, about 10.45, an aeroplane was seen to crash one and a half miles N.W. of Reculver, and two airmen to bale out. The boat, making for the first parachutist, was close by and rescued two German airmen. The Margate life-boat had also put out, and she rescued the man in the first parachute. - Rewards, £1 10s. and 2s. 6d. for fuel used.

(See Margate, “Accounts of Services by Life-boats,” page 102.) HERNE BAY, KENT. At 3.30 in the afternoon of the 5th September, 1940, an aeroplane which was being chased by British aircraft was seen to crash 200 yards west of Margate Hook Beacon. The weather was fair. Three men went out in a motor boat, but only found oil coming to the surface.

Margate life-boat also went out and picked up some wreckage. - Rewards, £1 2s. 6d. and 2s. 6d. for fuel used.

(See Margate, “Accounts of Services by Life-boats,” page 102.)

LYTHAM - ST. ANNE’s, LANCASHIRE. At 2 in the afternoon of the 5th September, 1940, a soldier telephoned from the Custom House, Lytham, that a sailing canoe had capsized in the channel. The life-boat and her crew were at a shipyard and the news was passed on to them. The coxswain and another lifeboatman at once ran to see where the accident was, while the second-coxswain and other life-boatmen put out in the boarding boat.

They found the canoe, which had righted itself. There was no one in her, but a short distance away they picked up a woman.

She was unconscious and all efforts failed to revive her. She was brought in, and then the coxswain took out the boarding boat again and brought in the canoe, but he could not find the body of a man who had also been in the canoe. - Rewards, a letter of thanks.

HERNE BAY, KENT . At 5.20 in the evening of the 7th September, 1940, an aeroplane was seen to crash about one mile north of Reculver. The weather was fair.

Two men put out in a motor boat, but found only wreckage The Margate life-boat was also out and rescued a German airman.- Rewards, 15s. and 2s. 6d. for fuel used., (See Margate, “Accounts of Services by Life-boats,” page 103.)

PORTAFERRY, Co. DOWN. About 6 in the evening of the 7th September, 1940, the Valkyrie, a yacht of the Snipe class, with a crew of three aboard, was seen trying to beat up against a N.N.W. wind of almost gale force and a strong tide. She failed and was carried out of Strangford Lough. Two men put off in a motor boat, but when outside the bar they saw her three miles out, drifting south. Not having enough petrol to overtake her they returned and reported to the coastguard. The Cloughey life-boat was then launched, but the Valkyrie made Killough unaided. - Rewards, £1 10s. and 13s.

for fuel used.

(See Cloughey, “Accounts of Services by Life-boats,” page 106.)

TENBY, PEMBROKESHIRE. About 5 in the evening of the 15th September, 1940, two men were out fishing in the sailing boat Sunflower.

A squally N.N.W. wind was blowing, and she capsized. A man was sent out in a motor boat to the rescue, but failed to find the Sunflower. The accident, however, had been seen by another man, who was close by in his sailing boat, with a party. He went into the sea and at some risk and difficulty succeeded in getting one of the two men of the Sunflower into his boat. The man was unconscious and all efforts to revive him failed. The other man was not found.- Rewards, £1 10s. and 4s. for fuel used.

BRANCASTER, NORFOLK. About 1.30 in the morning of the 17th September, 1940, the coastguard reported that a man in a parachute had been seen over Tichwell Marshes, driving towards the sea, and that the parachute had fallen into the sea some 300 yards from the shore. The telephone wires had been damaged by barrage balloons which had broken adrift, and this caused delay, but at four o’clock two men put out in a motor boat from Brancaster Staithes. They searched from four to eight o’clock, but found nothing, and it was learned later that what had been hanging from the parachute was not a man but an explosive canister. - Rewards, £1 5s.

and 5s. for fuel used.

NEW QUAY, CARDIGANSHIRE. About 4 in the afternoon of the 18th September, 1940, the open sailing boat Wennol capsized, when lobster-fishing about a mile and a half west of New Quay Head, throwing her crew oftwo men into the sea. A strong westerly breeze was blowing, with a heavy sea. Three men put out to the rescue in the motor boat Elgan, but the two men swam ashore and climbed the cliffs. The Elgan then tried to salve the Wennol but was unable to do it, and the Wennol was eventually washed ashore badly damaged. - Rewards, £1 2s. 6d. and 2s. 6d. for fuel used.