KINLOSS, ELGINSHIRE. At 11.40 in the morning of the 27th August, 1941, it was reported to the Burghead coastguard hy the R.A.F. at Kinloss, that an aeroplane had come down in the sea two miles north of Kinloss. Three men put out from Burghead in a motor boat, but found nothing, as the information given was incorrect. - Rewards, £1 2s. 6d. and 5s. for fuel used.

DONAGHADEE, Co. DOWN. On the 29th August, 1941, the motor fishing vessel Henrietta was out with nine people on boardand did not return. At 10.25 at night flares were seen by the coastguard and the Donaghadee life-boat was launched, but could find no trace of the Henrietta. Meanwhile two men had put out in a small motor boat, I’m, Alone, and they found the Henrietta with her engine broken down. Her engineer, however, was able to repair it, and she came in under her own power, bringing with her the two in the motor boat. - Rewards, £1.

(See Donaghadee, “ Accounts of Services by Life-boats,” page 67.)

BARDSEY ISLAND, CAERNARVONSHIRE.

About 9.45 in the evening of the 20th September, 1941, the R.A.F. reported that an aeroplane had come down in the sea 28 miles away from the island. Three boats put out, a motor boat from Bardsey Island with six men on board and the life-boats from Porthdinllaen and Holyhead. The three boats made a long search, but nothing was found except oil and fuel tanks, which were seen floating by a destroyer. - Rewards, £7 10s. and 15s. for fuel used.

(See Porthdinllaen and Holyhead, “Accounts of Services by Life-boats,” page 71.) PORT ST. MARY, ISLE OF MAN. About 2.30 in the morning of the 24th September, 1941, the coastguard saw a vessel aground on the rocks at Gansey Point, about half a mile from Port St. Mary harbour. A light S.E. wind was blowing and the sea was calm, but the weather was foggy. The coastguard reported it to the harbour master, who put out in a motor boat with a fisherman and a member of the crew of an Air Sea Rescue launch.

He arranged to signal for the life-boat should she be needed and her crew were assembled.

The three men found the Danish motor vessel Merkur II aground on the sloping rocks of Gansey Point. She had gone aground at high spring tide and was in danger of falling over as the tide ebbed. The harbour master took off her crew of seven and brought them ashore. The Merkur II was refloated by a tug at the next highwater. - Rewards, £1 17s. 6d. and 2s. 6d. for fuel used.

BEXHILL, SUSSEX. About 2.55 in the afternoon of the 27th September, 1941, a Spitfire pilot baled out of his aeroplane, which crashed into the sea. The pilot landed in the water, with a rubber dinghy, about one and a half miles from the shore, south of Bexhill.

The tide was high and the weather fine. Two men put off in a small rowing boat and rescued him. - Rewards, 15s.

NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. At 7.25 in the evening of the 28th September, 1941, a small flat-bottomed boat was seen drifting out to sea on the ebb tide off New Brighton stage. There were two boys on board it.

They had taken it from its moorings at Egremont and had no oars. The weather was clear, with a slight sea and no wind, but darkness was coming on. The motor life-boat motor-mechanic and another life-boatman manned the motor boarding boat and towed the drifting boat back. - Rewards, £1.