APRIL MEETING MONTROSE, ANGUS. At about 10 in the morning of the 24th March, 1942, the lifeboat coxswain and two other men were about to enter harbour in a motor boat, when they saw an aeroplane fall into the sea. The sea was smooth and a light westerly wind was blowing. Putting about, the three men went to the spot where the aeroplane had crashed, one mile N.E. from Scurdyness Lighthouse, and found her partly submerged. They rescued the pilot, who was badly injured about the face, and semi-conscious, and brought him back to Montrose where he was taken to the R.A.F. hospital. - Rewards, £2 17s.

TEIGNMOUTH, DEVON. At about mid-day on the 28th March, 1942, two men were out in a small motor boat hauling lobster pots off the Ness Rocks, Teignmouth. An easterly wind was blowing, and their boat was caught in broken water and capsized. They were thrown into the sea and were in danger of drowning. Six men went out in a motor ferry boat, crossed the harbour bar and rescued them. - Rewards, £3.

PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE. At about 12.30 in the morning of 1st April, 1942, the coastguard at Collieston saw a distress signal from an aeroplane, which had crashed a mile S.E. of Cruden Bay. A light S.W. wind was blowing, with a moderate swell, and the weather was fine. Two motor boats, each manned by three men, put out from Cruden Bay and one of them rescued two airmen.

The three other members of the aeroplane’s crew were lost. The Peterhead life-boat was also launched, but she, and naval vessels which joined in the search, found nothing.- Rewards, £6 and 9s. for fuel used. The six men generously returned their rewards as a gift to the Institution. Three of them wrote : “ We don’t wish any gain for ourselves. We only tried to help the men who are risking their lives day and night to keep our country safe “.

(See Peterhead, “Accounts of Services by Life-boats,” page 37.) WHITBY, YORKSHIRE. At 9.42 in the morning of the 8th April, 1942, the coast.

guard reported that the motor fishing coble Spray, of Whitby, was showing a distress signal one mile north of Whitby pier. A strong W.S.W. wind was blowing, with a choppy sea. The life-boat coxswain decided that the job could be done by a fishing coble, and with two other men he put off in the motor fishing coble Rosamund. They foundthe Spray at anchor, with her engine broken down. She had two men on board. They took her in tow and brought her into harbour.

- Rewards, £2 5s. and 4s. for fuel used.