MARCH Launches 63. Lives rescued 75.

MARCH 3RD. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.

At about 5 P.M. an army officer and two non-commissioned officers launched an old boat, intending to punt in shallow water. They had not allowed for the strong ebbing tide and a fresh S.E. wind and, having no oars, were soon drifting away. The life-boat’s boarding boat put out at 5.45 P.M.

She found that the boat was leaking badly and that the men were baling all the time to prevent her from sinking. She towed her to the beach, and returned to her station at 6.45 P.M. - Paid permanent crew.

MARCH 3RD. - NEW BRIGHTON , CHESHIRE. At 6.25 P . M . the Hoylake coastguard reported a motor boat in difficulties on Burbo Bank, and the No. 2 motor life-boat Edmund and Mary Robinson left her moorings at 6.45 P.M. A moderate S.E. wind was blowing, with a moderate sea and rain.

The life-boat found the R.A.F. rescue launch No. 164 aground half a mile W.N.W. of C.10 Red Buoy. She had a crew of seven on board, and she had lost her propellers. The life-boat put men on board to help her get off and then towed her to a Mersey Docks and Harbour Board vessel lying in the main channel. The life-boat returned to her station at 11 P.M.. - Rewards, £15 10s.

MARCH 6TH. - HARTLEPOOL, DURHAM.

At 8.20 A.M. the coastguard reported a message from the S.S. High Wear that she was coming in with her engine-room flooded, that she was making water, and that a pilot should be ready. A few minutes later the motor life-boat The Princess Royal (Civil Service No. 7) put out in a fresh S.E. wind, with a very rough sea and snow. At the request of the naval authorities a pilot went with her. She found the steamer in Tees Bay.

She was laden and drawing eighteen feet, which made it impossible to bring her into Hartlepool. With the life-boat guiding her the High Wear went into the River Tees, and the life-boat returned to her station at 11 A.M. - Rewards, £6 17s. 6d.

MARCH 7TH. - BUCKIE, BANFFSHIRE.

At 4.45 A.M.. the coastguard reported signals from a vessel to the N.E. by E., and the motor life-boat K.B.M. was launched at 6.30 A.M.

A light southerly wind was blowing, with a ground swell. The life-boat saw a searchlight shining on to the land, and going inshore she found that it was on board H.M.

Trawler Sheldon, which was aground on tbe landward side of Craigenroan Rock, with no one on board. Shouting was heard from the shore, and the life-boat learnt that the crew were safe. She then went to the trawler, turned off her searchlight and dynamo, and returned to harbour at 7.45 A.M. Half an hour later an officer of the trawler asked if she could put out again to bring ashore papers and clothing. As no other boat was available, the life-boat went out and returned again at 9.35 A.M. - Rewards, £10 6s. 3d.

MARCH 8TH. - GOURDON, KINCARDINESHIRE.

The Gourdon coastguard reported a small boat adrift off Johns-haven, and at 11.10 A.M.. the motor life-boat Margaret Dawson was launched. A light southerly wind was blowing, but there was a heavy ground swell. The life-boat found the boat, but it was empty and she towed it to Gourdon, arriving at 12.30 P.M. The owners of the boat, which came from Montrose, made a gift to the Institution and another to the life-boat crew. - Rewards, £16 16s.

MARCH 12TH. - BALLYCOTTON, CO.

CORK. At 8.45 A.M. a local man out in a small boat saw what he took to be another small boat drifting about a mile and a half N.E. of the Ballycotton light. He came ashore and reported it to the life-boat coxswain.

A moderate southerly wind was blowing and the sea was slight, but there was thick fog. The motor life-boat Mary Stanford was launched at 9.15 A.M. and found a ship’s raft, which appeared to have been damaged by shrapnel or bomb splinters.

She towed it in, returning to her station at 10 A.M. - Rewards, £7 4s. 6d.

MARCH 12TH. - BUCKIE, BANFFSHIRE.

At 10.40 P.M. the coastguard reported a vessel burning flares one and a half miles N.W. by W., and the motor life-boat K.B.M. was launched at 11.30. A strong southerly wind was blowing, with a choppy sea and snow showers. About five miles N.W. of Buckie the life-boat found the steam drifters Morning Rays, of Fraserburgh, and Amity, of Buckie. The Morning Rays had been towing the Amity, which had no one on board, but the rope had fouled her propeller, and the two trawlers were drifting helplessly.

At the request of the skipper of the Morning Rays the life-boat found the steam trawler Copieux, and she took both drifters in tow while the life-boat stood by. Then the tow rope between the two drifters broke and came clear of the Morning Rays’ propeller, and the life-boat returned to her station, arriving at 2 A.M. - Rewards, £15 9s.

MARCH 13TH - 14TH. - BLYTH, NORTHUMBERLAND.

At 7.20 P. M. the Blyth coastguard telephoned that the S.S. Brian, of Sunderland, which had just left port, laden with coal, had driven ashore to the west of the West Pier. A moderate E.S.E.

gale was blowing, with heavy seas, and it was very cold. At 7.45 the motor life-boat Joseph Adlam put out, got alongside the steamer, and rescued nine of the crew in spite of the heavy seas. The remaining ten had got away a little earlier in the ship’s boat, and had landed on the beach. As the lifeboat was leaving the Brian the coastguard life-saving apparatus, which was attempting to reach the steamer from the shore, fired a line which fell across steamer and life-boat.

The slack of the line got foul of the life-boat’s propeller, her engine stopped, and she drifted on to the beach. After a very anxious time the assistant motor-mechanic got the engine started again sufficiently to enable the boatto get off the beach without help. The line was cut clear of the life-boat, and with the engines running cautiously she got back about 10.30 P.M. and landed the men at the naval base. She was then hauled up on the slipway and twenty more feet of rocket line were cut away from the propeller. On the following day it was found that the rudder had been twisted and cracked, but this did not prevent her from being launched again at 10.30 that morning, the 14th March, when the naval authorities asked if she could go out to pass tow ropes from the S.S. Brian to a salvage tug.

She took six riggers with her and put them on board the steamer. The ropes were passed, but they broke and the steamer remained aground. The tide had turned, operations had to be suspended, and the life-boat returned at 4.15 P.M., bringing ashore the steamer’s crew of fifteen and the six riggers.

In recognition of the way in which all on board carried out their work when the propeller was fouled, and got the life-boat out of a tight corner in the darkness, 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, £18 4s. 6d. ; additional rewards to the crew, £6 15s. ; total rewards, £24 19s. 6d.

MARCH 15TH. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.

At 9.30 A.M. the coastguard reported a vessel ashore on outer Scotstoun Head, and the motor life-boat John Russell, on temporary duty at the station, was launched at 9.55 A.M. A strong S.E. wind was blowing, with a heavy sea, and there was fog. The life-boat found the steam trawler Danearn, of Aberdeen, with a crew of ten and a catch of fish on board. She had washed over the outer reef and was near the beach. The coastguard life-saving apparatus had fired a line to the trawler, and the life-boat stood by until all the crew had been rescued from the shore, returning to her station at 3.10 P.M. - Rewards, £6 14s. 6d.

MARCH 15TH. - GIRVAN, AYRSHIRE, AND CAMPBELTOWN, ARGYLLSHIRE.

MARCH 15TH. - ABERDEEN. At 6.25 in the evening information came from the flag officer in charge at Aberdeen, through the coastguard, that H.M. Corvette Hyderbad had gone aground on the north breakwater in Navigation Channel and the No. 1 motor life-boat Emma Constance was launched at 6.40. A moderate southerly wind was blowing, with a heavy ground swell. The lifeboat stood by the corvette, while the steam tug Bruno, with a crew of ten, came out to try and tow her off, but she too went aground, on the west side of the old south breakwater.

It was then 8.40. Leaving the Hyderbad the life-boat got a line from the Bruno, which was rolling and pounding heavily in the surf, and started to tow her off. At 9.15 the tug refloated. She came off quickly and struck the life-boat, damaging her port quarter.

The tug had lost her rudder and the life-boat towed her to her berth. Meanwhile, at 9.20, the Hyderbad herself had refloated and returned to her berth. The life-boat got back to her station at eleven o’clock. - Rewards, £13 11s. 6d.

MARCH 15TH. - CROMER, AND SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK. On the night of the 14th March and in the morning of the 15th, a convoy was attacked by enemy E-boats.

The E-boats in turn were attacked by destroyers and by H.M.S. Vortigern, which sank three of them and damaged two more, but H.M. Vortigern was hit by two torpedoes and sank. At 7.38 A.M. on the 15th March the Cromer coastguard passed a message from the flag officer in charge at Great Yarmouth to the Cromer life-boat station that two vessels had sunk ten miles N.E. by N.

from Cromer. A light S.W. wind was blowing and the sea was smooth. The Cromer No. 1 motor life-boat H. F. Bailey was launched at 7.57 A.M., and by 9.43 A.M. had reached the position. A number of other rescue boats were there. The life-boat found a lot of wreckage, and picked up eleven bodies. She continued the search until 1.25 P.M. but found no one alive, and returned to her station at 3 P.M.

At 3.50 P.M. the coastguard telephoned to Girvan that a ship was ashore on Ailsa Craig A moderate southerly wind was blowing, with a moderate sea. The life-boat Lily Glen - Glasgow was launched at 4.20 P.M., but she found nothing and returned at 8.20 P.M News of the launching of the Girvan life-boat reached the Campbeltown station from the Portpatrick coastguard at 5.15 P.M., but another message said that radio bearings put the ship near the Mull of Kintyre, and the Campbeltown motor life-boat City of Glasgow was launched at 5.45 P.M. At 7.30 P.M. she found the S.S. Tanafjord, of Oslo, on Boiler Reef to the S.W. of Sanda Island. She was fast on the rocks. A wireless message told the life-boat that a tug was coming and she went to find her, escorted her to the steamer and ran ropes between the two during the night. A second tug had been summoned but at 10.52 the following morning the first tug got the steamer off, and the life-boat returned to her station, arriving at 1.15 P.M She had been 18 1/2 hours at sea. - Rewards Girvan £17 0s. 3d. ; Campbeltown, £19 15s;. 6d.

The Sheringham station had received a call at 7.40 A.M., and the motor life-boat Foresters Centenary was away at 8.2 A.M She found one body and a barrage balloon.

She returned to her station at 4.15. Both life-boats transferred the bodies to a motor boat which took them to Lowestoft, and both returned to their stations smothered in crude oil. Rewards : Cromer, £13 6s. 6d. ; Sheringham, £19 12s.

MARCH 17TH. - REDCAR, YORKSHIRE.

At about 9.50 A.M the coastguard reported that an R.A.F. Lockheed Hudson aeroplane was down in the sea about two miles north of Redcar look-out, and the motor life-boat Louisa Polden was launched at 10.37 A.M.

A moderate southerly wind was blowing and the sea was smooth. All she found was a dead body. An R.A.F. speed boat and a motor boat also went out and found severalbodies. The life-boat returned to her station at 12.45 P.M. - Rewards, £10 9s. 6d.

(See Teesmouth, “ Services by shore-boats,” page 64.)

MARCH 17TH. - CAMPBELTOWN, ARGYLLSHIRE. At 1.51 in the afternoon information came from the naval authorities that H.M. Rescue Tug Adept, with a crew of thirty, was aground on Paterson’s Rock, east of Sanda Island, and the motor life-boat City of Glasgow was launched at 2.16. The weather was calm, but there was a bank of fog, and the tide race was raising a very rough sea at Paterson’s Rock. The tug had struck the rock at high water and was right on top of it. Another tug had been sent for, and the life-boat stood by, waiting for her, but as the tide ebbed the Adept seemed in danger of slipping off at any moment, so the life-boat rescued her crew and then put them on board the tug Zwarte Zee which had now arrived.

The tug and the life-boat then tried, without success, to tow off the Adept. The fog now became dense, and the tug and the life-boat both anchored. They remained there through the night, intending to make another attempt in daylight. By morning the weather had cleared, but as the life-boat then learned that a salvage ship was on her way she returned to her station, towing a boat from the Adept with some gear in it. She reached her station again at 11.10 in the morning of the 18th, having been out for 21 hours. This was her second long service, with only a day between them. - Rewards, £26 8s. 6d.

the Ebro was ashore 1 1/2 miles off Rattray Head, and with this more precise information she put out again at 6.15. This time she found the wreck. She also found the Peterhead life-boat, which had arrived some time before, but in the darkness, made worse by hail showers, had not been able to see the wreck. The Ebro was lying on the sands broadside on to the sea, and partly submerged.

The sea was so heavy that the lifeboats were unable to get near her. They stood by for some time, and at 8.15 the Peterhead life-boat set out again for her station, leaving the work of rescue to the Fraserburgh life-boat. She arrived back at Peterhead at ten in the morning.

MARCH 18TH. - FRASERBURGH, AND PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE. Just before nine o’clock in the evening the coastguard at Kinnaird Head reported that a white rocket had been seen off Rattray Head, and at 9.20 the Fraserburgh motor life-boat John and Charles Kennedy was launched. The wind was light, but a heavy sea was running and the night was pitch dark. Not a thing could be seen. The life-boat went to the position given, and searched for eight hours, but she could find no trace of a vessel in distress, and after that first rocket no flare or light was seen. Just before one o’clock next morning, during this unsuccessful search by the life-boat, a wireless message was received on shore from the vessel in distress.

She was the steamer Ebro, of London, with a crew of thirty, and the message said she was breaking up and was anxious to know where the life-boat was. The resident naval officer, on receiving this message, tried to get in touch with the life-boat by wireless.

Failing to do this he sent a message to the Peterhead station and the Peterhead motor life-boat John Russell was launched at 1.50.

At 3.49, while the Peterhead life-boat was on her way to Rattray Head, a wireless message came from the Fraserburgh boat that she was waiting until daylight. Shortly before daylight her coxswain decided to return to harbour, and when he got near to the shore he signalled by lamp for the lights to be put on. At 5.50 the life-boat entered harbour, having then been out for 8 1/2 hours.

She now learned from the coastguard that At 8.45 the Fraserburgh life-boat again returned to her station to refuel. The sea was breaking so heavily over the Ebro that it seemed impossible to approach her, but the coxswain hoped that with the change of tide conditions would improve. The life-boat reached harbour at 9.45, and in forty minutes had refuelled and was on her way out for the third time. This time, at the request of the coxswain and the motor-mechanic, Captain Andrew Stephen, joint honorary secretary of the station and the harbour master, went with her. Meanwhile, about 9.20, eighteen of the Ebro’s crew of thirty men had got away in one of the ship’s boats from her lee side, and although the boat was constantly flooded as she went through the surf, they came ashore safely. There were still twelve men on board. When the life-boat reached the wreck for the third time at 11.30 she found that the seas were now washing right over her. It was clear that the only hope of rescuing the twelve men was to take the life-boat between the Ebro and the shore.

This meant gradually working the boat towards the beach through the heavy surf, and at the same time keeping her head on to the breaking seas. For over two hours the life-boat was manoeuvring to come alongside, and twice she had to put out to sea again when she saw exceptionally heavy breakers coming in. At last she got into position north of the wreck and signalled to her, “ We are going to make a dash alongside. Be ready “. Everything was secured on the life-boat’s deck and the crew were ordered to take shelter. Then, at full speed, the life-boat went under the lee of the Ebro.

Here she found much wreckage. Heavy logs, washed overboard from the wreck, were bumping alongside and threatening to crush the life-boat. There was the added difficulty that the Ebro’s davit tackles were hanging over the side, and all the time the seas breaking over the Ebro were falling into the life-boat. In spite of this the life-boat passed lines from her bow and stern to the vessel and held alongside while the twelve members of the crew, who had taken shelter in the bridge deck house, watching their opportunity, made a dash for the life-boat. Some jumped into her, and others slipped down ropes and the pilot ladder. All twelve were rescued.

The life-boat had damaged both her stem and her rudder, but she was under control, and watching carefully to avoid the heavierbreakers, the coxswain brought her out again into the open sea. The life-boat got back again to Fraserburgh at three in the afternoon.

It was then nearly eighteen hours since she had first put out. The captain of the Ebro was full of gratitude and spoke of the splendid way in which the life-boat had been handled.

It had been a long and very trying service, and the Institution made a reward of £3 to the coxswain and each member of the crew in addition to the ordinary reward on the standard scale of £2 16s. 6d. Rewards to the Fraserburgh crew and launchers on the standard scale, £22 15s. ; additional rewards to the Fraserburgh crew, £27 ; total rewards to the Fraserburgh crew and launchers, £49 15s. Rewards to Peterhead, £l9 13s.

MARCH 20TH. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE.

The motor life-boat John and Charles Kennedy, which had been moored in the harbour after the service the day before, put out at 3 P.M. and took a pilot out to a vessel, as the weather was too rough for the pilot boat to go out. She returned at 3.35. - Rewards, £2 17s.

MARCH 2lST. - GIRVAN. AYRSHIRE.

At 9.45 P.M. the police reported that a vessel was ashore about one mile south of Turnberry Lighthouse and was showing flares.

The weather was calm but there was a dense fog. At 10.10 A.M. the motor life-boat Lily Glen - Glasgow was ready to go out, but the tide was low and she had to wait an hour before going. About one mile south of Turnberry Lighthouse she found the sailing ship Ellie Park, of Dublin, aground inside the Brest Rocks. The ship had a crew of three and was on her way from Belfast to Ardrossan with scrap iron. Her crew were in no immediate danger and the master asked the life-boat to stand by in order to help the ship get off when the tide had risen. About 4 A.M. the life-boat towed her off and took her through the channel into the safety of the open sea. She returned to her station at 4.50 A.M. - Rewards, £15 9s.

MARCH 25TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.

At 10.55 in the morning the coastguard telephoned that an aeroplane had come down in the sea one mile off Sandsend and that her crew had taken to their rubber dinghy. All the fishing boats were at sea, and the lifeboat’s coxswain, second-coxswain and crew were out with them, but the motor-mechanic and the winchman quickly got together a crew. Ex-coxswain Thomas W. Welham, 71 years old, who had retired from the life-boat over six years before, took command, with T. Peart, aged 60, as acting second-coxswain, and the other six members of the crew were the motor-mechanic himself and five boys, sixteen years old. At 11.5, ten minutes after the call had been received, the motor lifeboat Mary Ann Hepworth was launched.

There were patches of fog, but the life-boat soon found a coloured patch in the water.

Shortly afterwards she found the rubber dinghy itself, with four airmen on board, about half a mile off Sandsend. The aeroplane had sunk. One of the airmen had hurt his leg, and all four had cuts, mostly about the head. The life-boat brought them in at once, arriving at 11.50. The station was thanked by the Director General of Aircraft Safety, by the pilot of the aeroplane and by his aerodrome. - Rewards, £7 6s. 6d.

MARCH 25TH - 26TH. - BARMOUTH, MERIONETHSHIRE, AND PWLLHELI, CAERNARVONSHIRE. SOS flashes had been seen by the coastguard about six miles east of Cilan Head on the evening of March 25th, and at 9.45 the Pwllheli motor life-boat Ministre Anseele, on temporary duty at the station, put out and searched for a long time, but found nothing. The wind was slight and the sea smooth. She then approached the Abersoch coastguard station and signalled for further information. She was told that news had just been received that an aeroplane had come down in the sea off Mochras Point, and she went at once to her help. Meanwhile at 2.10 next morning the Barmouth motor life-boat Lawrence Ardern, Stockport had been launched in answer to a message from the coastguard that a Stirling bomber had crashed in the sea. She reached the aeroplane at 3.45, and shortly afterwards the Pwllheli life-boat also arrived. They found the aeroplane’s hatches open and the crew gone. The life-boats cruised about until daylight, and as they could see a rubber dinghy on shore, they presumed that the airmen had landed safely, and returned to their stations, the Pwllheli life-boat arriving at nine o’clock and the Barmouth life-boat at 9.30. On the way back the Barmouth lifeboat saw a mine floating near St. Patrick’s Causeway and reported it to the coastguard.

At four o’clock in the afternoon the life-boat was again launched, with the mine disposal officer on board. The mine was found again and sunk, and the life-boat returned to her station at ten o’clock that night. Rewards : Barmouth, £25 17s. for the first launch ; the cost of the second launch was paid by the Admiralty ; Pwllheli, £14 13s. 3d.

MARCH 27TH. - EYEMOUTH, BERWICKSHIRE.

At 9.10 A.M. the coastguard telephoned that a trawler was showing signals for medical aid. A light southerly wind was blowing with a rough sea. The motor lifeboat Frank and William Oates was launched at 9.20 A.M. and found the steam trawler Earl of Buchan about a mile east of Eyemouth.

A member of ,he crew was suffering from acute rupture. The life-boat brought him ashore at 9.50 A.M., and the trawler went on her way. - Rewards, £11 3s. 6d.

The following life-boats were launched, but no services were rendered for the reasons given: MARCH 2ND. - KIRKCUDBRIGHT. The R.A.F. reported that an aeroplane was down in the sea and that it was too rough for their speed boat, but the life-boat found nothing.

- Rewards, £18 18s.MARCH 2ND. - RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN.

An aeroplane had been reported missing, and it was thought that she might have come down at sea, but she had crashed on the beach. - Rewards, £12 9s.

MARCH 2ND. - PLYMOUTH, DEVON. A British Sunderland flying boat was reported to have been forced down, but the life-boat was recalled by wireless as another aeroplane had gone to her help. - Rewards, £6 13s.

MARCH 3RD. - BLYTH, NORTHUMBERLAND.

An unknown steamer had been reported heading for rocks east of the harbour, but she seemed to get clear and then was lost in the darkness. - Rewards, £14 9s. 6d.

MARCH 5TH. - HARTLEPOOL, DURHAM.

Two laden steamers, the Norwegian S.S. Royal and the British S.S. Yewdale, were lying off Hartlepool in a very rough sea, with a strong easterly wind blowing, and heavy snow storms, and the naval authorities wanted the steamers in harbour. The life-boat went out to pilot them in, but could not find them.

Later they were able to enter the Tees.- Rewards, £18 14s.

MARCH 6TH. - SUNDERLAND, DURHAM.

A motor vessel had gone ashore at Whitburn Point, but she was too far inshore for the life-boat to be able to get near her.- Rewards, £7 11s.

MARCH 7TH. - CAMPBELTOWN, ARGYLLSHIRE. A vwssel had been reported ashore, but nothing was found, although a Dutch coasting vessel was seen under way. - Rewards, £6 13s.

MARCH 10TH. - PLYMOUTH, DEVON.

A damaged aeroplane was expected to come down in the sea and the life-boat went out to stand by, but she was recalled by wireless as the aeroplane had landed elsewhere.- Rewards, £9 19s. 6d.

MARCH 1 1 T H. - ARBROATH, AND BROUGHTY FERRY, ANGUS. An R.N.A.S. aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but nothing was found except two wheels, one by the Arbroath life-boat and one by an R.A.F. launch. - Rewards : Arbroath, £16 18s. 3d. ; Broughty Ferry, £11 13s.

MARCH 11TH. - ALDEBURGH, SUFFOLK.

Airmen had been reported down in the sea, but a high-speed launch was out searching and the coastguard recalled the life-boat by wireless as she was not needed.

- Rewards, £39 18s.

MARCH 12TH. - ARBROATH, MONTROSE, ANGUS, AND ABERDEEN. On the afternoon of the 12th information was received at Arbroath and Montrose that an unknown vessel was in distress about twenty miles eastward of Arbroath.. A later message reported survivors in boats, but Arbroath and Montrose No. 1 motor life-boats found nothing. On the following morning a ship’s boat was reported south-east of Collieston, and the Aberdeen No. 1 motor life-boat put o u t , b u t f o u n d n o t h i n g . - R e w a r d s : Arbroath, £19 16s. 6d. ; Montrose, £20 7s. 9d.; Aberdeen, £6 17s. 6d.

MARCH 13TH. - SELSEY, SUSSEX. A British aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but only a patch of oil was found.- Rewards, £17 12s. 6d.

MARCH 13TH. - THURSO, AND WICK, CAITHNESS-SHIRE. A British aeroplane was expected to come down, probably at sea, but it reached land before crashing.- Rewards : Thurso, £21 9s. ; Wick, £8 13s.

MARCH 13TH. - BUCKIE, BANFFSHIRE.

A British bombing aeroplane had crashed, but nothing was found, and the coastguard reported that the crew baled out and all were safe. - Rewards, £15 9s.

MARCH 14TH. - FENIT, CO. KERRY.

A fishing boat had been reported in difficulties off Smerwick Harbour, but the lifeboat found her abandoned. Her crew had got ashore. - Rewards, £20 9s.

MARCH 14TH. - WICK, CAITHNESSSHIRE.

The ex-Norwegian fishing vessel H.13A.F., with a naval crew on board, appeared to be out of control, and her crew were waving a white sheet, but she was got under control again and went on her way.- Rewards, £6 13s.

MARCH 15TH. - RHYL, FLINTSHIRE.

A British Hurricane aeroplane had crashed and was found on East Hoyle Sandbank, but there was no trace of her crew. - Rewards, £21 17s.

MARCH 15TH. - TENBY, PEMBROKESHIRE.

The Belgian fishing vessel Grace of God was in distress, but her crew were rescued by a naval vessel. - Rewards, £19 1s.

MARCH 16TH. - SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE.

A British Spitfire aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £19 4s.

MARCH 1 7TH. - ST. DAVID’S, PEMBROKESHIRE.

An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £11 3s. 6d.

MARCH 20TH. - ST. IVES, CORNWALL.

A British aeroplane had crashed and sank immediately. Trawlers nearby picked up two landing wheels and an airman’s cap, but the life-boat and a rescue launch found nothing. - Rewards, £26 10s. 3d.

MARCH 24TH. - ST. DAVID’S, PEMBROKESHIRE.

A steamer had been reported in distress north of the South Bishop Lighthouse, but no vessel in need of help was found. - Rewards, £6 12s.

MARCH 24TH. - BALLYCOTTON, CO.

CORK. The military reported an attack tenmiles south of Flat Head, but when the lifeboat reached the position, three and a half hours later, she found nothing. After she had returned explosions and gunfire were heard further away and it was assumed that a convoy had been attacked but had moved on before the life-boat arrived. - Rewards, £13 3s. 3d.

MARCH 25TH. - PEEL, ISLE OF MAN.

A dinghy with a man on board had been reported drifting towards Peel, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £22 16s. 6d.

MARCH 27TH. - TORBAY, DEVON. A vessel coming in reported that she had found a small fishing boat and a dinghy with no one on board, and the life-boat made a wide search for her crew, but found nothing.- Rewards, £4 5s.

MARCH 27TH. - BUCKIE, BANFFSHIRE.

A vessel had been reported on fire, but nothing could be found, and it was learned later there had been a small moorland fire on the Sutherland coast across the Moray Firth.- Rewards, £15 9s.

MARCH 27TH. - DOUGLAS, AND RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN. An aeroplane was reported to have come down in the sea, but nothing was found. - Rewards : Douglas, £15 7s. 6d. ; Ramsey, £24 7s.

MARCH 27TH. - WICK, CAITHNESSSHIRE.

A fishing boat’s engine had broken down, but it was repaired and the help of the life-boat was not needed. - Rewards, £9 19s. 6d.

MARCH 29TH. - LLANDUDNO, CAERNARVONSHIRE, AND RHYL, FLINTSHIRE.

Airmen were reported to have baled out over the sea, but the life-boats found nothing. - Rewards : Llandudno, £21 13s. 6d. ; Rhyl, £27 9s. 6d.

MARCH 31 ST. - WICK, CAITHNESSSHIRE.

A British aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £6 13s.

MARCH 31ST. - TROON, AYRSHIRE. A vessel had been reported ashore, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £13 11s. 6d.