PORTH HELLICK, SCILLY ISLES. At about 4 in the afternoon of the 4th June, 1942, a Tiger Moth aeroplane, the engine of which had failed, fell into the sea about fifty yards off the shore at Porth Hellick. The accident was seen by Mr. C. Stideford, who was at work in a field two hundred yards away. He ran to his home, telephoned the coastguard and, with two other men, put off in a small rowing boat. The two airmen had got clearof the aeroplane. One swam ashore. The boat picked up the other. Another airman had swum out to help, and he was also picked up by the boat. The two rescued men were transferred to a motor launch, which reached the scene a few minutes later. - Rewards, letters of thanks to Messrs. C. Stideford, H.Jenkins and William J. Guy, Junior.

LOSSIEMOUTH, MORAYSHIRE. On the 20th August, 1942, six men were fishing from the motor fishing boat Renown, of Lossiemouth, about three and a half miles off Lossiemouth, when a Whitley bomber made a forced landing on the sea 500 yards away. The men buoyed their nets, went at once to the aeroplane, and rescued her crew of five from their dinghy. - Rewards, £3.

WOOLTACK POINT, PEMBROKESHIRE. At 9.45 in the evening of the 1st September, 1942, the coastguard watchman saw a flashing white light about two miles away to the north-west. Three-quarters of an hour later it was still flashing. He thought that it was a vessel signalling, but the signals were not understood, and three auxiliary coastguards, one of them a woman, put out in a motor boat to investigate. They made a thorough search, but found nothing, and returned at one next morning. - Rewards, £3 and 5s. for fuel used.

BLACKROCK, Co. CORK. On the afternoon of the 6th September, 1942, John Duffy, a boy of six, was playing in a boat moored in the River Lee, and he fell into the water.

David Hegarty aged ten, and Laurence Canny, aged twelve, returning from blackberrying, saw him in the water, clinging to the mooring rope of the boat from which he had fallen.

These two boys hauled on the mooring rope so as to keep him above water. Then one of them got into another boat. This boat the first boy pulled towards John Duffy, and the boy in it was able to catch hold of him and drag him ashore. The two boys took him to one of their homes, gave him tea and dry clothes, and then took him home. - Rewards, letters of appreciation to the two boys.

BRIDLINGTON, YORKSHIRE. At 12.50 P.M.

on the 12th September, 1942, the coastguard reported to the life-boat coxswain that a man in a coble was waving his arms, and that the coble was in broken water off Flamborough Head. A light easterly wind was blowing, with a moderate sea. A watch was kept on the boat, and it was decided that, instead of the life-boat, a motor coble should put out as soon as the tide had risen sufficiently to launch her. At 3.25 P.M. the life-boat coxswain and two other men put out in a motor coble. They found that the coble in distress had lost her propeller and was drifting under sail. The two men on board had intended to try and beach her.

The motor coble towed her into Bridlington harbour. - Rewards, £1 17s. 6d. and 2s. 6d.

for fuel used.

MARGATE, KENT. At 7.45 in the morning of 20th September, 1942, three men (aged 71,69 and 16) went out in their motor launch to fish. The wind was light, but the sea was choppy. As the men put out they saw a rescue launch on its way to look for a Stirling bomber which had crashed three and a half miles out at sea. The three fishermen had just got out their gear when they heard a shout and saw three airmen in the water holding on to one another. The fishermen got them on board their boat at once. One of the men was unconscious and they tried to revive him, but he was dead. They then hauled in their net and brought the airmen into harbour, where they landed them at 9.30.

The rescue launch picked up two other airmen.

- Rewards, £3 and 10s. for fuel used.