SEPTEMBER MEETING FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE. On the 11th June, 1942, a Spitfire aeroplane was on a practice flight when the engine failed and the pilot landed on the sea. There was a slight swell with a light N.E. wind. The aeroplane sank at once and the pilot swam for the shore. The accident had been seen from the shore and two men put out in a motor boat. Guided by seagulls circling, the men went at once to the right spot and picked up the pilot. He was unable to speak, and the men cut away his collar and tie and gave him artificial respiration. - Rewards, £1.

PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE. Shortly before 12.30 in the afternoon of the 28th June, 1942, two boys (brothers) were playing on the shore at Burnhaven with a raft made of ship’s hatch covers and an old table. The tide was four hours flood, with a light N.N.W. wind and a slight sea. Wind and tide carried the raft seawards and the boys called for help. Three men put off in a rowing boat and brought them ashore.- Rewards, £1 10s. and 5s. for the use of the boat.

PORTRUSH, CO. ANTRIM. About 1 in the afternoon of the 4th July, 1942, a small pulling boat, with one man on board, was seen to be in difficulties in a north-westerly direction about two miles from Ramore Head.

A light but increasing southerly off-shore wind was blowing, with a moderate sea.

Four men put out in a motor boat, but they ran out of fuel and had to return. Another motor boat, with a crew of five, then put off, and towed the small boat, drifting some five miles off, to Portrush. - Rewards, £3 10s. and 9s. for fuel used.

PORT ST. MARY, ISLE OF MAN. At about 6.45 in the evening of the 10th July, 1942, the sailing yacht Diana, of Castletown, was seen to be in distress in Carrick Bay, near the Poolvaaish Rocks. A northerly gale was blowing, with a very choppy sea. The coxswain and motor-mechanic of the life-boat met a motor boat. with three men on board, as she came in from a pleasure trip, returning on account of the bad weather, and asked the men if they would put out again to the rescue.

This they did, the coxswain and motormechanic going with them, and they came up with the Diana when she was only 100 yards from the rocks. She had two men on board, and they had been fishing in Perwick Bay.

When the gale sprang up they had tried to make harbour, but their mainsail was badly torn. They were helpless, and were blown two and a half miles before they were rescued. Had the rescuers been a little later in reaching the yacht they would have found her smashed against the rocks, and the two men in great danger of losing their lives.- Rewards, £5 and 5s. for fuel used.

CASTLETOWN, ISLE OF MAN. At 4.30 in the afternoon of the 18th July, 1942, a small sailing boat was reported to be in difficulties.

She had only boys on board. A strong N.N.W. wind was blowing. The boys could not make Castletown, and had anchored half a mile to the south. Two men, Mr. Wm. Mylchreest and Mr. John Kellet, put out in a motor boat and towed the sailing boat into harbour. - Rewards, letter of thanks to the men, who had been rewarded by the father of the boys.

CADGWITH, CORNWALL. At about 10.38 in the morning of the 19th July, 1942, an airman was seen to bale out of a Spitfire aeroplane which had crashed into the sea about one and half miles S.E. of Cadgwith.

A moderate northerly wind was blowing, with a slight sea. Four men went out in a motor fishing boat and rescued the pilot, who was in his rubber dinghy. - Rewards, £2 10s. and 5s. for fuel used.

WHITSTABLE, KENT. On the morning of the 22nd July, 1942, two men from the R.A.F. range at Shellness put out in a small dinghy to attend a target 900 yards seawards.

While they were so engaged the tide turned, and the current coming down the Swale, helped by a squall, drove the dinghy seawards.

She made no distress signals, but three men in a Whitstable motor fishing boat saw that the dinghy was in difficulties and went to her help. It was then 10.30 in the morning. They took the two airmen on board and brought them and their dinghy to Shellness. - Rewards, £1 17s. 6d. and 2s. 6d.

for fuel used.

MABLETHORPE, LINCOLNSHIRE. At about 12.50 in the afternoon of 16th August, 1942, an aeroplane crashed into the sea between Theddlethorpe and Saltfleet. Mr. C. Mountain, Eastern Sea Fisheries Officer, and his assistant officer, Mr. H. West, put off in the Eastern Sea Fisheries boat. There were no survivors, but they found the aeroplane and rescued the bodies of the airmen. - Rewards, Letters of thanks to Mr. C. Mountain and Mr. H. West.

BOULMER, NORTHUMBERLAND. At about 5.30 in the afternoon of the 18th August, 1942, a Botha training aeroplane and a Lysander, towing a target, collided in the air.

The Botha crashed into the sea about one and a half miles N.E. of the life-boat station, and the Lysander crash-landed in a field about half a mile S. of the station and burst into flames, but her crew of two got clear. A light S.E. wind was blowing, with a choppy sea.

Three fishing boats put out to the help of the Botha, with eleven men on board, and a fourth boat, on her way home from fishing, with a crew of three, changed course and also went to the rescue. They found an empty rubber dinghy, a dead body and a severely injured man, who died. - Rewards, £7 and 10s. for fuel used.

BARROW, LANCASHIRE. A Barrow motor pilot boat put out on the 20th August, 1942, to help an aeroplane which had crashed.- Rewards, £5 and 12s. for fuel used.

(See Barrow and Millom, “ Services by Shore-boats, 1943,” page 56.)NEW QUAY, CARDIGANSHIRE. At 12.12 in the afternoon of the 20th August, 1942, the coastguard saw that a rowing boat, with four people on board, was in difficulties half a mile east of New Quay pier. A strong squally N.W. wind was blowing, with a moderately rough sea. A motor boat, with a crew of two, which had just come in from fishing, was sent off. She found that the people in the rowing boat were visitors.

They had lost an oar, and their boat was drifting rapidly away. The motor boat brought them in. - Rewards, £1 and 2s. for fuel used.

CADGWITH, CORNWALL. At 9.40 in the evening of the 21st August, 1942, a Beaufighter aeroplane crashed into the sea a quarter of a mile off Church Cove. A light S.W.

wind was blowing, with a slight sea. The crash was heard, but not seen from the beach, and within eight minutes a motor boat with a crew of four was away. Ten minutes later a second motor boat, also with a crew of four, put out. The first boat picked up a dead airman off Church Cove, and the second boat salved some wreckage. The first boat put out again, this time with a crew of six, including an R.A.F. doctor and a police constable, and picked up some equipment.

A punt also went out, manned by four men, but found nothing. - Rewards, £13 and 8s.

for fuel used.

WATCHET, SOMERSET. At 10.40 in the morning of the 29th August, 1942, an army officer reported to the life-boat’s secondcoxswain that a party of bathers was in difficulties near Helwell Point. A S.W. wind was blowing, with some swell. The secondcoxswain and two other life-boatmen at once put off in a rowing boat and found ten soldiers on ledges of rock under the precipitous cliffs. One of them was being given first aid. The boat took him on board and six others and landed them in Helwell Bay.

She then returned and rescued the other three. - Rewards, £1 17s. 6d.

HASTINGS, SUSSEX. At 10.10 in the morning of the 2nd September, 1942, a parachute was seen to come down into the sea.

A light S.W. wind was blowing, with a slight swell. Two men put out in a motor boat.

They did not find the parachute, but they picked up the canister of a smoke bomb which had been dropped about eight miles out to guide the Hastings life-boat, which was also searching. - Rewards, £1 5s. and 8s.

for fuel used.