JANUARY MEETING BARROW, LANCASHIRE, and MILLOM, CUMBERLAND.

At four in the afternoon of the 20th of August, 1942, the naval base asked the Barrow life-boat station to search for an aeroplane which had crashed north of Walney.

A strong south-west wind was blowing, with heavy squalls of rain, and the sea was rough.

The coxswain of the Barrow life-boat and three other men put out in a motor pilot cutter. A motor boat, manned by an auxiliary coastguard and three other men, put out from Millom at considerable risk, and four airmen put out in a dinghy from Walney.

The motor boat from Millom found a dead body and the motor pilot cutter saw parts of the aeroplane, but that was all. The four airmen in the dinghy got into difficulties and were rescued by the pilot cutter. - Rewards, Barrow pilot cutter, £5, and 12s. for fuel used ; Millom motor boat, £5, and 10s. for fuel used.

(See Barrow, “ Services by Shore-boats, ” 1942, page 68.)

LOSSIEMOUTH, MORAYSHIRE. About 4.30 in the afternoon of the 13th of December, 1942, an aeroplane crashed into the sea one and a half miles north-west-by-north of Lossiemouth harbour. The weather was moderate. The motor fishing boat Sunrise,with a crew of six, put out and rescued the aeroplane’s crew of five, who were in their rubber dinghy. - Rewards, £7 10s., and 11s. for fuel used.