Launches 17. Lives rescued 7.

JULY 13TH. - COURTMACSHERRY HARBOUR, CO. CORK. At 5.30 A.M. the coastwatchers reported that a small boat was in distress about five miles S.E. of Oyster haven, and the motor life-boat City of Bradford 1, on temporary duty at the station, was launched at 5.50 A.M. A moderate westerly wind was blowing and the sea was smooth, butthere was fog. After a long search the life-boat found the motor launch Shirken, of Oysterhaven.

Only one man was on board and he was exhausted. Two other men had been on board the launch, but they had put off in her dinghy to get help and been unable to return.

The life-boat took the man off, towed the launch to Oysterhaven, and returned to her station, arriving at 1.35 P.M. - Rewards, £7 2s.

JULY 14TH. - WELLS, NORFOLK. At 5.39 A.M. a message was received from the coastguard that an aeroplane had crashed into the sea three miles away. She was a Lancaster bomber. At 5.52 came another message asking the life-boat to launch, and the motor life-boat Royal Silver Jubilee, 1910- 1935 was afloat at 6.15. Dr. E. W. Hicks, the honorary secretary of the station, went with her. A freshening wind was blowing from the north, with a moderate sea. The life-boat found the aeroplane standing on her nose, with her tail and part of her port wing blown away. One airman, almost pulseless, but still conscious and moaning with pain, was clinging to the underside of the port wing. He was lifted into the lifeboat.

There was no sign of any other member of the crew, so the coxswain hoisted himself on to the edge of the wing and walked along it to the fuselage. Its top had been blown away and he climbed inside to search for the rest of the crew, who might still be aboard, injured and helpless. At any moment the aeroplane might have turned over, or sunk, and the coxswain would have been trapped inside her. He searched but found no one, and the life-boat put back to Wells, where she arrived at 7.30. The injured man was landed and taken to hospital, but later be died. The life-boat then returned to the aeroplane and made a further search. She found nothing except a rubber dinghy, about a mile away. At 8.40 the aeroplane sank.

An Air-Sea Rescue launch, with the help of aeroplanes, began a wider search, and the life-boat returned to her station, where she arrived at 9.15. Some of the bodies of the other six men of the bomber, all of whom lost their lives, were recovered later.

In recognition of his gallantry in going on board the aeroplane, the Institution awarded its thanks inscribed on vellum to COXSWAIN THE ODORT. L. NEILSEN. - Rewards , £8 10s. 3d.

JULY 18TH. - WHITBY, YORKSIIIRE.

During the morning the fishing fleet had returned, as the weather was getting rough, with the exception of one coble, Freda, and at 12.50 in the afternoon, by which time the wind was blowing strongly from the N.N.E., with a very rough sea, the motor life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth was launched. She found the Freda three miles E.N.E. of Whitby, with her crew of three pumping and baling to keep her afloat. The life-boat kept on the weather side of the coble to protect her from the seas, and thus escorted the coble got safely into harbour at 2 o’clock in the afternoon. - Rewards, £4 19s. 6d.

JULY 20TH. - FILEY, YORKSHIRE. In the early morning the motor fishing boat Joan and Mary had gone out with a crew of three. As by evening she had not returned and no news had been received of another boat which had gone out to look for her, the motor life-boat The Cuttle was launched at 7.32 P.M. A light westerly wind was blowing, with a slight swell. The life-boat found the Joan and Mary, which had had trouble with her engine, and towed her in, arriving at 10 P.M. - Rewards, £14 15s.

JULY 21ST. - FILEY, YORKSHIRE. At 7.10 P.M. the life-boat coxswain was told by the coastguard that the small outboard motor fishing boat Ivy, with a crew of two, was making signals of distress. A fresh W.S.W.

wind was blowing, with a moderate sea.

The motor life-boat The Cuttle was launched at 7.40 P.M. and found the Ivy two miles N.E. of Filey Brigg. Her crew were exhausted.

A life-boatman jumped into the small boat and helped them into the lifeboat.

She took the Ivy in tow and returned to Filey, arriving at 8.45 P.M. - Rewards, £13 5s.

JULY 30TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK. At 6.1 P.M. the flag officer in charge at Great Yarmouth telephoned, through the Cromer coastguard, asking that the life-boat should be sent to help a Walrus aeroplane which had come down in the sea about six miles N.E. of Cromer, and the No. 1 motor lifeboat H. F. Bailey was launched at 6.10 P.M.

The sea was smooth and a light S.E. wind was blowing. The life-boat reached the aeroplane in half an hour, passed a rope to the aeroplane, which had a crew of four, and towed her to the life-boat slipway. Before she arrived the life-boat had had a wireless message saying that the aeroplane was to be kept afloat to await an expert. When he arrived the life-boat put him on board her.

She then cut away some drogue ropes which were foul under water, and took off three of the airmen. The pilot and expert then got the aeroplane into the air again and the lifeboat was rehoused at 8.18 P.M. The three airmen returned, by lorry, to their station.- Rewards, £10 9s. 6d.

JULY 3 0TH. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK.

At 1.47 A.M. a local resident telephoned that an aeroplane had come down in flames off Cley, and the motor life-boat Foresters Centenary was launched at 3.42 A.M.

The sea was smooth and a light W.S.W. wind was blowing. The life-boat found that it was a German aeroplane and the airman had been picked up by a small boat. On her way back the life-boat picked up the body of a British airman, which had been in the sea for some time. - Rewards, £26 0s. 6d.

The following life-boats were launched, but no services were rendered for the reasons given : JULY 1 ST. - BUCKIE, BANFFSHIRE, AND FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE.

An aeroplane had been reporteddown in the sea, but the Buckie life-boat reached the position to find that an R.A.F.

rescue launch had picked up the body of an airman. The Fraserburgh life-boat was recalled. - Rewards : Buckie, £4 10s. 6d. ; Fraserburgh, £8 15s.

JULY 3RD. - BUCKIE, BANFFSHIRE.

An aeroplane had crashed into the sea, but her crew of seven, who had taken to their dinghy, were picked up by a fishing boat.- Rewards, £5 10s. 6d.

JULY 11TH. - ARRANMORE, CO. DONEGAL. A ship’s boat was drifting, but no one was on board. - Rewards, £5 9s. 6d.

JULY 19TH. - CLOUGHEY, CO. DOWN.

An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £9 10s. 6d.

JULY 21ST. - DONAGHADEE, CO. DOWN. A canoe with two boys was missing from Groomsport and the life-boat searched with the help of searchlights from shore batteries, but found nothing. - Rewards, £8 18s. 6d.

JULY 23RD. - MARYPORT, CUMBERLAND.

An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but nothing was found.- Rewards, £15 3s.

JULY 25TH. - BARMOUTH, MERIONETHSHIRE.

A British aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but the life-boat found nothing. - Rewards, £5 14s. 6d.

JULY 2 6TH. - WELLS, NORFOLK. A British aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but only a patch of oil was found.

- Rewards, £20 18s. 9d.

JULY 27TH. - MOELFRE, ANGLESEY.

A minesweeper had gone ashore on the rocks in Moelfre Bay, but her crew were rescued by the coastguard life-saving apparatus.- Rewards, £5 16s. 6d.