Launches 53. Lives rescued 27.

MAY 1ST. - CROMARTY. At 7.40 A.M. a message was received from the Cromarty coastguard that two airmen had been seen in the sea off Brora, and at 8.20 A.M. the motor life-boat James Macfee was launched.

A light easterly breeze was blowing and the sea was calm. The life-boat was directed by wireless to search east of Clyne Hill, and found the body of one of the airmen. The other could not be found. The life-boat then spoke a naval examination vessel, and was asked to take the body to Invergordon. This was done, and she returned to her station at 7.30 P.M. - Rewards, £6 13s.

MAY 1ST. - ALDEBURGH, SUFFOLK.

At about 1.20 P.M. the coastguard reported a small open pulling boat about two and a half miles from the look-out, and the No. 1 motor life-boat Abdy Beauclerk was launched at 1.30 P.M. A fresh N.E. breeze was blowing, with a moderate swell. The life-boat found the small boat with two men in her. They were Dutchmen, who had belonged to the Dutch Navy and had slipped out of Holland in the early morning of the 28th April to come to England. The life-boat returned to her station at 2.20 P.M., but she had to lie off for two hours, owing to the heavy swell, before she could be beached. - Rewards, £14 3s.

MAY 5TH. - PADSTOW, CORNWALL.

At about midnight on the 4th May information was received from the Padstow coastguard that a convoy had been attacked from the air about ten miles N. by W. of Stepper Point, and that one of the ships was on fire.

At 1 A.M. the motor life-boat Queen Victoria, on temporary duty at this station, put out.

The sea was smooth, with a light S.E. breeze.

The life-boat found the laden motor vessel Marie Flore, of Antwerp, ablaze from stem to stern. She went alongside, but got no response to shouts. All she found was aship’s boat, and this she took in tow. She then offered to help the Dutch motor vessel Narwal, which was towing another vessel which had been damaged in the same attack, but her help was not needed and when the vessel in tow sank, the Narwal rescued the six survivors. The life-boat then returned to her station, but put out again to continue the search. She went back to the burning Marie Flore, found that the fire had partly died down, put three men on board her and, with other help, towed her into harbour, returning to her moorings at 2.15 PM Property salvage case.

MAY 6TH. - WELLS, NORFOLK. At about 5 P.M. the life-boat coxswain heard a ship sounding “ V ” in morse on her whistle, ” I need assistance “, and the motor life-boat Royal Silver Jubilee 1910-1935 was launched at 6.30 P.M. A strong northerly wind was blowing, with a rough sea. The life-boat found the S.S. Radstock, of Bridgwater, a mile north of Wells Bar. She was bound from Avonmouth for Wells, and was short of water, coal and food. Her degaussing gear was out of order and she could not get a pilot. At his request she landed the captain, put a pilot on board, and returned to her station at 7.30 P.M. - Rewards, £11 8s. 10d.

MAY 7TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.

At about 5 A.M. the Royal Naval Shore Signal Station informed the coxswain that the pilot cutter, at anchor off the lifeboat house, had reported an aeroplane down about one and a half miles to the N.N.E.

in The Gut. She had struck a barrage balloon cable, when returning from a bombing raid on Germany. Later the pilot cutter reported that she had picked up one survivor in a rubber boat, which was drifting past her.

The motor life-boat City of Bradford II put out at 5.40 A.M. A strong N.E. breeze was blowing, with a moderately rough sea. At about daybreak the life-boat picked up two dead airmen about two miles S.W. of Spurn Point, and put the bodies on board the patrol boat Perfective, to be taken to Grimsby. The life-boat then found the aeroplane in four feet of water on the Trinity Sand, but there were no other survivors, and she returned to her station at 12.20 P.M. - Paid permanent crew. Rewards, 4s. 6d.

MAY 7TH. - EYEMOUTH, AND ST. ABBS, BERWICKSHIRE. At 5.15 P.M. the Eyemouth honorary secretary received a message from the Royal Observer Corps post that an aeroplane had been seen to dive into the sea about ten miles east of Eyemouth. At St. Abbs information was received a few minutes later, from the naval authorities at Rosyth, through the Royal Naval Shore Signal Station, that an aeroplane had crashed about five miles east of St. Abbs Head. Both motor life-boats put out, the Eyemouth boat Frank and William Oates at 5.30 P.M., and the St. Abbs boat Annie Ronald and Isabella Forrest at 5.35 P.M. The weather was fine, with a light north-easterly wind and a moderate sea. With the help of aeroplanes, the life-boats made a thorough search, andthe Eyemouth life-boat picked up a rubber dinghy from a German bomber and a petrol tank. These she handed over to the police when she returned to her station at 9.45 P.M.

Guided by aeroplanes the St. Abbs life-boat picked up the body of a German airman, and returned to her station at 9.50P.M. - Rewards : Eyemouth, £22 11s. 6d. ; St. Abbs, £14 8s.

MAY 8TH. - ST. IVES, CORNWALL.

Shortly after 4 A.M. a message was received from the naval authorities, through the coastguard, asking for the life-boat to meet a trawler due at St. Ives at 5 o’clock with survivors on board from a sunken ship, some of them wounded, and the motor life-boat Caroline Oates Aver and William Maine was launched at 4.45 A.M. A light S.S.E. breeze was blowing, but the sea was rather rough.

The life-boat took out a doctor and ambulance men and met H.M. Trawler Pearl.

She had on board survivors from H.M.S.

Viva II, which had been attacked and sunk while on escort duty. After putting the doctor and ambulance men on board, the life-boat returned ashore, took out respiratory apparatus and then landed five of the survivors.

At six in the morning she put to sea and searched a wide area for more survivors, but found none, and returned at 2.40 P.M.

In the meantime a steamer landed three men whom she had picked up. The Viva II, in the early months of the war, was under the command of Captain R. L. Hamer, R.N., D.S.O., the Institution’s deputy chief inspector of life-boats, who won the D.S.O. while serving in her. - Rewards, £10 7s. 6d.

aground, and the motor life-boat Louise Stephens was launched at 4.45 A.M. A N.E. breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea.

After searching for some time without success, the life-boat learned at 5.45 A.M. by wireless from the naval base that the launch was on the Caister Shoal. As the life-boat approached her she came afloat on the rising tide, but she was in a dangerous position, in the narrow channel between Barber Sand and Caister Shoal. The life-boat went alongside, found that the launch had lost her propellers, and towed her to Yarmouth, returning to her station at 8.55 A.M. - Rewards, £4 l6s. 6d.

MAY 13TH. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. At 1.15 in the morning the police reported a vessel was in trouble off Egremont stage, and on enquiry the honorary secretary was told that part of the stage, with a searchlight and soldiers on it, had been broken adrift and was being carried up the river. At 1.50 the No. 2 motor life-boat Edmund and Mary Robinson left her moorings.

A westerly breeze was blowing and the sea was smooth. The life-boat found that the steamer Westlands had drifted on to the stage on the flood tide, had broken it away and was still pressing against the stage. As the men on the stage were all right, she stood by until the Mersey Dock vessel Vigilant arrived. She then put the marine surveyor from the Vigilant on board the steamer and continued to stand by while the Vigilant towed the Westlands away. When the steamer had safely anchored in the river the life-boat returned to her moorings, arriving at 4.25 in the morning. - Rewards, £10 10s.

MAY 8TH. - LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.

At 8.40 in the morning the naval base telephoned, through the coastguard, that a heavy explosion had occurred where the examination vessel Thistle had last been seen, and the motor life-boat M i c h a e l S t e p h e n s was launched at 9.10. A fresh N.E. wind was blowing. The sea was choppy and was full of mines. One blew up only 100 yards astern of the life-boat. Fifteen minutes after putting out she found the wreck of the Thistle two cables from the N.E. Newcome Buoy.

She searched among the wreckage for survivors, but she found only one, out of a crew of about fifteen, bleeding and badly injured.

She returned to harbour where she landed the rescued man. At 10.15 she put to sea again to continue the search and spoke to naval vessels which were returning on account of the mines. She searched thoroughly, but could find no more survivors and returned to harbour, where she arrived at noon. - In recognition of the dangerous nature of the service, an increase in the usual money award on the standard scale was made to each member of the crew. Standard rewards to crew and helpers , £311s.; additional rewards to crew, £6 ; total rewards, £9 11s.

MAY 11TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND MAY 15TH. - FILEY, YORKSHIRE.

Several fishing boats were out, some crabbing and some fishing, and as at 10 in the morning three of the boats could not be seen from the coastguard’s look-out it was decided to search for them. At 10.25 the motor lifeboat The Cuttle was launched. A fresh N.N.W. breeze was blowing, with a moderate swell. The life-boat found the three boats about nine miles away and escorted them in.

- Rewards, £8 9s.

GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At 4.12 A.M.

the Great Yarmouth coastguard telephoned that the naval base wanted the life-boat to help with a R.A.F. launch which had gone MAY 1 7 T H . - FRASERBURGH, AND PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE. At 1.18 A.M. the naval authorities at Rosyth asked, through the Fraserburgh coastguard, that the Fraserburgh life-boat should he got ready to launch. A few minutes later the station was given a position ten or twelve miles from Kinnaird, and at 2 A.M. the motor life-boat John and Charles Kennedy was launched. A light N.W. wind was blowing, with a moderate sea. The life-boat found nothing at the position given, so she altered course to the eastward, and half an hour later found the troopship S.S. Archangel, of Harwich.

She had been bombed by German aeroplanes, and a destroyer and tug were standing by. The life-boat prepared to take wounded men off the steamer, but a trawler arrived and took over this work, so the life-boat, in company with the destroyer, went to look for drifting boats. Several boats were found, but all were empty except one, with one soldier onboard. He was rescued and put on the destroyer. At about 6 A.M. a tug took the Archangel in tow, in a southerly direction.

The life-boat went with them, for the Archangel had no life-boats left, and was making water. At 8.15 A.M. the Fraserburgh honorary secretary sent a message to the Peterhead station through the coastguard, asking if the Peterhead life-boat could be launched to relieve the Fraserburgh boat, and at 8.55 the Peterhead motor life-boat Julia Park Barry of Glasgow put out. She met the Archangel when she was five miles N.E. of Peterhead, and took over from the Fraserburgh life-boat, which returned to her station, arriving at 11.40 A.M.

For a time the Peterhead life-boat escorted the Archangel southward, and then it was decided to abandon her as she seemed likely to sink. She had been so badly damaged amidships that there was no communication between the after and fore ends, so the lifeboat went alongside the after end and rescued eighteen men, while the tug took off the remainder from the fore end. The Archangel was then beached at Belhelvie, and the lifeboat  returned to her station at 1P.M. - Rewards : Fraserburgh, £14 9s. 6d. ; Peterhead, £4 7s.

MAY 17TH. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. At 4.36 P .M. the coastguard reported that a German aeroplane was attacking shipping about two miles south of the harbour, and a few minutes later that the aeroplane had crashed on fire. The motor life-boat Rosa Woodd and Phyllis Lunn was launched at 5.7 P.M. The weather was fine and the sea calm. The life-boat found the S.S. Ala, of Oslo, damaged, and put several life-boatmen on board to help in salving gear, guns and ammunition. Then the harbour tug and another steamer got the Ala in tow, the life-boatmen remaining on board her to help. The Ala was towed in and beached, and the life-boat brought ashore her captain, mate and a naval rating. Others were landed by a naval crash boat. The lifeboat returned to her station at 6.30 P.M.- Property salvage case.

MAY 19TH. - BRIDLINGTON, YORKSHIRE.

During the afternoon a strong northerly wind was blowing, with a rough sea and rain squalls, and news was sent to the life-boat station that the open motor fishing coble Sarah Elizabeth had not returned from the fishing ground. It was then learnt from the Ulrome coastguard that she had been seen drifting south, and the motor lifeboat Stanhope Smart was launched at 4.45 P.M. Eight miles to the south she found the Sarah Elizabeth. Her engine had failed, her propeller been damaged, her sails blown away, and her crew of three were exhausted with baling. The life-boat took them aboard and, with the coble in tow, arrived back at her station at 8.15 P.M. - Rewards, £11 7s.

MAY 19TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At about 6.30 P.M. the coxswain was warned for service by the naval control as two ships had been attacked and were in distress. The sea was calm, with no wind.

At 6.45 P.M. the motor life-boat Greater London (Civil Service No. 3) was launched, and near the Nore Light-vessel, found the S.S. Dixcove, of Liverpool, in tow of two tugs.

One of the tugs had on board fifty survivors from S.S. Winkfield, of Glasgow. She transferred them to the life-boat. Going east for two miles, the life-boat then took on board four more survivors from a Dutch naval vessel. Two of them were badly wounded, and another was suffering from shock.

The life-boat landed the fifty-four men at the naval base and returned to her station at 8.30 P.M. - Rewards, £7 1s.

MAY 20TH. - ST. DAVID’S, PEMBROKESHIRE.

At about 7.50 P.M. the coastguard reported that an aeroplane had crashed into the sea south of Ramsey Island, and the motor life-boat Civil Service No. 6 was launched at 8.19 P.M. and made for Ramsey Sound. A light N.N.W. wind was blowing and the sea was calm. In the meantime a man who lives on Ramsey Island had seen the crash and had gone to the spot. There he saw a man in the water. He was a Pole, the pilot of a Hurricane, and was swimming in a life-jacket near the cliff. He shouted “ Friend, Pole “. The man helped him out of the water. Meanwhile another man from the island, one of the farm employees, had put out in the island’s boat, and brought her round to the spot. There he found the pilot and his rescuer and took them on board.

He was making with them for Ramsey Sound when he met the life-boat, and she took them on board. The airman was suffering from burns on the face and shock. A doctor attended to him as soon as he was landed, and he was then sent to hospital. Putting out again the life-boat picked up the airman’s parachute in Dillyn Bay, and returned to her station at 10.15 P.M. - Rewards, £8 14s.

(See St. David’s, “ Services by Shoreboats,” page 97.)

MAY 22ND. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.

At 6 A.M. the coastguard reported that the steam drifter the Golden Rod, of Peterhead, was ashore near Slains Castle, five miles S.W. of Buchan Ness. As the weather was fine, with a light southerly wind blowingand a slight swell, the coastguard was asked to find out in what state the drifter was, and a little later reported that she was listing heavily. At 7 A.M. the motor life-boat Julia Park Barry of Glasgow was launched, and found another drifter standing by. The Golden Rod was making water and this caused her to bump as the tide rose, but at 9 A.M. she refloated, and the life-boat escorted her to harbour and then returned to her station, arriving at 9.45 A.M. - Rewards, £3 4s. 6d.

MAY 22ND. - MOELFRE, ANGLESEY.

A small rowing boat with two boys on board was seen by the coastguard to be in difficulties.

They had broken one of their oars and a strong S.W. wind was blowing, with a rough sea, and the boat was being carried out to sea.

At 10.45 A.M. the motor life-boat G.W. was launched. She came up with the small boatone mile N.N.E. of Moelfre Island, and brought her back, arriving at 11.30 A.MRewards, £5 2s. 6d.

MAY 23RD. - ST. IVES, CORNWALL.

At 6.13 P.M. the coastguard passed to the life-boat station a message from the resident naval officer at Penzance, that a vessel with a dangerous list was about four miles N.E.

of Pendeen and was making for St. Ives.

A strong N.W. breeze was blowing, with a rough sea. The motor life-boat Caroline Oates Aver and William Maine was launched at 6.25 P.M. and found the S.S. Bidassoa, of Falmouth, laden, and bound, with a crew of sixteen, from Avonmouth to Plymouth.

Her cargo had shifted, and she required a pilot.

The life-boat guided the Bidassoa towards the harbour until a pilot took charge, and then returned to her station, arriving at 7.27 P.M.

- Rewards, £10 16s. 6d.

MAY 23RD. - TROON, AYRSHIRE. At 8 P.M. the Portpatrick coastguard reported a vessel ashore south of Ayr Harbour, and the motor life-boat Sir David Richmond of Glasgow was launched at 8.45 P.M. A strong N.W. breeze was blowing, with a very heavy sea and heavy rain. The life-boat found that the vessel was the motor vessel Ifiena, a Dutch vessel, now of London. She had refloated and was making for the harbour, but she failed to make it, struck the north pierhead, and eventually went aground on the sand south of the harbour, one hundred yards from the shore. The crew wished to be taken off, but as she was only drawing six feet of water the life-boat could not go alongside on the lee side, and on the weather side the sea was breaking over her. The coastguard rocket life-saving apparatus attempted to fire a line on board her but failed. Her crew of five - four men and a woman - then put off in the ship’s boat, and with the help of the life-boat reached the shore. The life-boat returned to her station at 1.30 A.M. - Rewards, £9 1s.

The following life-boats were launched, but no services were rendered for the reasons given : MAY 1ST. - ST. IVES, CORNWALL. An enemy aeroplane had crashed into the sea off Gurnards Head, but nothing could be found.

- Rewards, £13 6s. 6d.

MAY 1 ST. - BUCKIE, BANFFSHIRE.

An aeroplane was reported to have come down in the sea north of Lossiemouth, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £3 5s. 6d.

MAY 2ND. - PORT ST. MARY, ISLE OF MAN. An aeroplane had crashed in the sea, and part of it was above water. Attempts were made to recover the bodies of her crew, but they were unsuccessful. - Rewards, £7 12s. 6d.

(See Port St. Mary, “ Services by Shoreboats,” p. 96.)

MAY 3RD. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK.

A German aeroplane had been reported down in the sea half a mile from the shore, but the crew of four landed in their rubber dinghy unaided and were arrested. - Rewards, £19 9s. 6d.

MAY 4TH. - FISHGUARD, PEMBROKESHIRE.

A steamer had been bombed and set on fire about ten miles N.N.W. of St. Davids, but the life-boat was recalled by wireless, as it was learned that another vessel had taken her in tow. Later she sank.

- Rewards, £3 17s. 6d.

MAY 6TH. - BALLYCOTTON, CO. CORK.

The military look-out had reported a trawler sounding her fog siren, but the life-boat was recalled when a message came from the Ballycotton Lighthouse that, after signalling “ mines floating seven miles S.W. Ballycotton Light,” the trawler had gone on.- Rewards, £9 1s.

MAY 7TH. - HASTINGS, SUSSEX. Two airmen had baled out from their aeroplane, but nothing was found. - Rewards , £18 18s. 3d.

MAY 7TH. - TORBAY, DEVON. Two boys had taken a rowing boat from Babbacombe Beach, but the life-boat could not find them . The policed discovered the wreckage of the boat, but as no one had been reported missing it was assumed that the boys were safe. - Rewards, £4 7s.

MAY 8TH. - PADSTOW, CORNWALL.

A vessel had been reported sunk, it was thought by enemy action, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £3 19s.

MAY 10TH. - SALCOMBE, DEVON. A British aeroplane had been shot down, but the crew of two succeeded in reaching the shore unaided. - Rewards, £6 17s. 6d.

MAY 11TH . - BLACKPOOL, AND LYTHAM - ST. ANNES, LANCASHIRE.

A British aeroplane had been reported down in the sea off South Shore, Blackpool, but later it was found that she had made a landing on the Southport side of the river, and that  the two airmen were safe . - Rewards : Blackpool, £4 ; Lytham-St.

Annes, £5 10s. 6d.

MAY 13TH. - HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY, AND PORTHDINLLAEN, CAERNARVONSHIRE.

A pilot was reported to have baled out from a British aeroplane about eleven miles in a north-westerly direction from Porthdinllaen Point, but nothing was found except an emergency hatch. Rewards : Holyhead, £2 17s. ; Porthdinllaen, £7 16s.

MAY 13TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. A barge had struck a wreck and sunk with a cargo of wheat. The weather was calm, and the life-boat attempted to salve her, but she was too badly damaged.- Rewards, £8 14s.

MAY 15TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.

A German Junkers 88 aeroplane had come down in the convoy anchorage, but two members of her crew were picked up from their rubber boat by the balloon ship Wengen, and the two others were lost.- Permanent paid crew. Rewards, 7s. 6d.

MAY 16TH. - HASTINGS, SUSSEX. A raft had been reported off St. Leonard’s Pier, but it was found to be part of a hatchway probably from a ship that had been attacked.

- Rewards, £16 2s. 6d.

MAY 16TH. - APPLEDORE, DEVON. An aeroplane had been reported down ten miles out in the direction of Lundy Island, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £7 11s. 3d.

MAY 17TH. - BUCKIE, BANFFSHIRE.

A British aeroplane was reported to have crashed, but nothing was found except wreckage. - Rewards, £2 13s.

MAY 17TH. - BALTIMORE, CO. CORK.

An explosion and flares, probably connected with war activities, had been reported some ten miles off, but nothing was found.- Rewards, £16 10s.

MAY 22ND. - PADSTOW, CORNWALL.

An aeroplane was reported to have crashed into the sea off Trevose Head, but actually it had only flown low in thick weather.- Rewards, £3 19s.

MAY 22ND. - FERRYSIDE , CAR-MARTHENSHIRE. At 7.57 in the evening the Pembrey coastguard telephoned that a boat was in distress half a mile off shore, and the pulling and sailing life-boat Richard Ashley slipped her moorings at 8.27 and put out under all sail. A strong S.S.W. wind was blowing, with a heavy breaking sea and a thick fog. The coxswain had to take the life-boat across the bar and close alongshore in the breaking water, and, as nothing could be seen in the fog, he had to navigate her by lead and compass. Several times she took green seas aboard and was practically submerged, but the coxswain handled her very skilfully and took her to a point half-way along Pembrey Sands, where the boat in distress should have been, but found nothing.

It was learned later that the boat was the fishing smack Sealark, of Swansea, and that her crew of two men had managed to swim ashore. The life-boat returned to her moorings at 1.30 in the morning, having been five hours at sea. It was a difficult and arduous service, and an increase in the usual money awards on the standard scale was made to each member of the crew. Standard rewards to crew and helpers, £19 7s. ; additional rewards to crew , £710s  ; total rewards, £26 17s.

MAY 22ND . - PORTHDINLLAEN , CAERNARVONSHIRE. At 6.43 P .M. a telephone message came from the senior naval officer at Liverpool, asking the lifeboat to go to the help of a British aeroplane in distress, and the motor life-boat M.O.Y.E.

was launched at 7.30 P.M. A moderate S.W.breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea and rain. The life-boat made for the position given, W. by S. 1/4S., 36 1/4 miles from Porthdinllaen Point. It was very difficult to see in the continuous rain and, when at midnight the life-boat reached the position given and searched, she could find nothing. The weather was getting steadily worse during the search, and the life-boat returned to her station at 5.35 A.M., having been out eleven hours. - An increase in the usual money award on the standard scale was granted to each member of the crew. Standard rewards to crew and helpers, £10 10s. ; additional rewards to crew, £2 19s. 6d. ; total rewards, £13 9s. 6d.

MAY 24TH. - HOLY ISLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND.

A British aeroplane came down at sea, but her crew were rescued by a destroyer. - Rewards, £5 2s. 6d.

MAY 24TH. - MARGATE, KENT. Red Very lights, presumably from an aeroplane down in the sea, had been reported, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £8 11s.

MAY 25TH. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE.

The Faroese motor vessel Harry had been reported on fire, but on her way out the life-boat learned from H.M.

trawler Ebor Abbey that she had found the Harry abandoned and had sunk her. - Rewards, £4 16s. 6d.

MAY 27TH. - ST. IVES, CORNWALL.

S.S. Registan, an auxiliary cruiser, was attacked and set on fire by four enemy aeroplanes, but the survivors were picked up by a motor boat from Sennen Cove and by destroyers.

- Rewards, £15 3s. 6d.

(See Sennen Cove, “ Services by Shoreboats,” page 97.) MAY 30TH. - RUNSWICK, YORKSHIRE.

A fishing coble was several hours overdue, but made harbour without the help of the life-boat. - Rewards, £6 18s.

MAY 30TH. - TROON, AYRSHIRE. A canoe was reported to have sunk leaving a boy, wearing a life-jacket, in the sea, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £4 10s. 6d.

MAY 31ST. - COURTMACSHERRY, CO. CORK. A steamer had been reported ashore and in need of help at Newfoundland Bay, twelve miles east of Old Head Lighthouse, but she got off and went on her way without the life-boat’s help. - Rewards, £9 7s.

MAY 31ST. - BARMOUTH, MERIONETHSHIRE. A British aeroplane had crashed into the sea, but an R.A.F. boat had gone to her help. - Rewards, £6 7s.