MAY MEETING PORTLOE, CORNWALL. At 2.40 in the morning of the 14th April, 1941, the coastguard watchman saw an aeroplane make a forced landing on the sea. Her engines had failed. He immediately called on two fishermen, who put out in a boat. They found the two airmen unable to use their rubber boat as it was foul of the tail of the aeroplane, and rescued them. A drifter towed in the aeroplane.

- Rewards, £1.

BOULMER, NORTHUMERLAND. On the night of the 27th April, 1941, H.M.S. Patia, an auxiliary vessel of the Royal Navy, was sunk by enemy aeroplanes about eight miles N.E. of Boulmer. The weather was clear, with a light, N.E. wind and a moderate swell.

The motor life-boats from Amble and Boulmer both went out early on the 28th and picked up a number of dead bodies.

While they were out a raft was reported off Cullernose Point, and the honorary secretary of the Boulmer life-boat station, Mr. W. Stanton, went out with three fishermen in a motor boat. -Rewards, a letter of  thanks to Mr. Stanton, and £3 3s.

(See Boulmer and Amble, “Accounts of Services by Life-boats,” page 47.).