FEBRUARY MEETING CRICCIETH, CAERNARVONSHIRE. Shortly before 6 in the evening of the 6th January, 1942, it became known that an Anson trainer aeroplane had come down in the sea in Tremadoc Ray. A light northerly wind was blowing, with a moderate sea. A motor boat put out from Criccieth, manned by five men, and searched from 6.10 P.M. until midnight, but found nothing. The Pwllheli and Barmouth life-boats were also launched, but found nothing that night. On the following morning the Pwllheli life-boat went out again, found the aeroplane sinking and marked the position with a buoy. The crew of the aeroplane had been rescued from their dinghy by a seaplane. - Rewards, £9 7s. 6d. and 12s. 6d. for fuel used.

(See Barmouth and Pwllheli, “ Accounts of Services by Life-boats,” page 10.)

HASTINGS, SUSSEX. At 2.10 in the afternoon of the 30th January, 1942, the coastguard at Fairlight reported that, the fishing boat RX52 was towing another fishing boat, RX112, towards Hastings. The sea was rough, with a strong S.W. wind. The boats were making steady progress, but the honorary secretary of the life-boat station asked the coastguard to keep him informed in case the life-boat’s help should be needed. At 2.45 the coastguard reported that another boat, RX106, which was at sea, had gone to help, and the RX112, whose engine had broken down, was brought safely into Hastings at 3.15. - Rewards, £2 13s., with 7s. 6d. and 3s. for fuel used.