LYNMOUTH, DEVON. At eight in the evening of the 2nd September, 1942, a visitor reported that several people could be heard shouting for help beneath the cliffs to the east of the harbour. A light westerly wind was blowing, but the sea was smooth and the weather was fine. The honorary secretary of the life-boat station, Mr. T. F. Bevan, the second-coxswain, a seaman and a policeman, put out in a rowing boat. Dusk had fallen, but the boat was guided by shouts, and found among the rocks two young men and two young women and also two boys. The boys had climbed down the cliffs to reassure the others. The boat was taken in among the rocks, and the six people waded out to her.

She was only a 16-feet boat, and she now had ten people on board her. She got back to Lynmouth at ten o’clock. - Rewards, a letter of thanks to Mr. T. F. Bevan and £2 15s.

given to the other three men. The rescued people also gave a reward.

MAIDENS, AYRSHIRE. Just after seven o’clock in the morning of 11th September, 1942, a British aeroplane crashed into the sea. A light S.W. wind was blowing, and the sea was smooth. She crashed near two boats which were fishing in Maidens Bay. They were owned by Mr. A. MrCrindle and Mr. T.

Sloan. They went at once to the aeroplane, and Mr. MrCrindle rescued two airmen and Mr. Sloan one, before the R.A.F. launch from Girvan arrived. One airman was lost.- Rewards, letters of thanks to Mr. McCrindle and Mr. Sloan, who did not wish to have money rewards.

WESTON, DEVON. At 2.45 in the afternoon of 21st September, 1942, a Weston watcher told the coastguard at Beer Head that a bather was in difficulties about twenty yards off Weston Beach. A strong S.W.

wind was blowing, with a slight sea. Four men, one of them a police constable, put off from Beer in a motor boat, but found nothing.

Later the body of the bather was washed ashore. - Rewards, £5 and 3s. for fuel used.

COCKBURNSPATH, BERWICKSHIRE. About mid-day on the 5th October, 1942, an airman dropped by parachute into the sea between Cockburnspath and Fast Castle. A very strong westerly wind was blowing, and thesea was very choppy, but the weather was clear. Three men at once put off in a fishing boat. The parachute was drifting fast with the wind and tide, but they picked it up about one and a half miles seaward of Redhough Bay. No airman was found. The life-boats at Dunbar and St. Abbs also took part in the search, but they found nothing.

- Rewards, £2 17s. and 3s. for fuel used.

(See Dunbar and St. Abbs, “Accounts of services by Life-boats,” page 50.) NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. Shortly before 7 in the evening of the 18th October, 1942, a man reported at the life-boat house that some boys in a boat, moored off Egremont stage, were waving for help. A moderate N.W. wind was blowing. The sea was smooth, but the weather was misty. The life-boat coxswain, second-coxswain and motormechanic put off in the life-boat’s motor boarding boat. They searched all the boats in the neighbourhood, but could find no trace of the boys. They returned at 8 P.M., and then learned that an empty boat had been picked up off Seacombe. Evidently the boys had climbed from this boat into the moored boat, and then been taken off before the boarding boat arrived. - Rewards, £1 10s.

SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK. Shortly after seven in the morning of 30th October, 1942, a damaged Halifax bombing aeroplane crashed into the sea east of Sheringham.

A strong E.N.E. wind was blowing, with a moderate swell. Her crew of six Polish airmen were rescued from their dinghy by the Sheringham life-boat. A motor fishing boat, with six men on board, also put out to the rescue, but she arrived just after the lifeboat.

The six men knew that the life-boat was putting out, but, seeing the airmen in the water, being half a mile nearer to them than the life-boat station, and knowing that every moment was vital, they also went to the rescue. - Rewards, £3 and 2s. 6d. for fuel used.

(See Sheringham, “ Accounts of Services by Life-boats,” page 50.)

GLENBARR, KINTYRE, ARGYLLSHIRE. At about 8.15 in the evening of the 2nd November, 1942, a Fleet Air Arm aeroplane engaged on night flying exercises crashed into the sea west of Glenecardoch Point, near Glenbarr, Kintyre. Her crew of thrce succeeded in swimming to a rock off the shore, but were too exhausted to attempt to swim further.

The news was telephoned to Campbeltown.

An aeroplane was sent to drop flares, and a rescue boat was summoned from Port Ellen and a naval boat from Tarbert. Meanwhile, people who were nearest the scene sent for a man living about three miles further north.

His boat had been drawn up for the winter but he quickly launched it, with another man, rowed to the aeroplane and rescued the three airmen who were slightly injured. On their way home the rescuers met the rescue boat.- Rewards, £12 10s.

NEWQUAY, CORNWALL. Just after noon on the 3rd November, 1942, a Hudson aero-plane struck the sea and blew up about six miles west of Towan Head. The weather was fine, with a light N.E. wind and a smooth sea. A fishing boat, with two men on board, was within half a mile of the spot where the aeroplane had crashed and went at once to the rescue, but all she found was the bodies of three airmen. - Rewards, £2 10s. and 3s.

for fuel used.