FERRYSIDE, CARMARTHENSHIRE. About 7.30 in the morning of the 26th of April, 1943, a dinghy belonging to the R.A.F. Rescue Service (Maintenance and Repair) Unit, with seven men on board, capsized in deep water between 20 and 30 yards from the shore. A moderately strong off-shore wind was blowing, the sea was moderate, and there was a fog.

Coxswain David Arthur of the Ferryside lifeboat, and an airman, whom he did not know, put off in a 10-feet boat, which was leaking, and found the seven men struggling in the water. They rescued six of them. The other one swam ashore. The coxswain received a letter of thanks from the R.A.F.- Reward to coxswain, 10s.

SALTCOATS, AYRSHIRE. About 2.30 in the morning of the 2nd of May, 1943, a Whitley bombing aeroplane, with engines not working properly, passed over Saltcoats. A few minutes later she crashed into the sea and exploded. The sea was calm and the surface took fire over a large area. A voice could be heard calling for help, and the police knocked up a man, Mr. Shedden. He put out in a small motor boat and at some risk rescued one airman, the only survivor. The ArdrossanArdrossan pilot launch also put out and picked up a body. Two naval vessels also went to the scene. - Rewards, £1.

FARR, SUTHERLAND. About 10.20 in the morning of the 21st of May, 1943, the Royal Observer Corps, Bettyhill, reported through the Wick police and the coastguard, that a raft with two men on it was half a mile from the shore between Bettyhill and Farr Point.

There was a slight sea and some fog.

The Thurso life-boat was launched and three small boats manned by twelve men put out from Skerray, Armadale and Kirtomy, but the “ raft ” was found to be a tree trunk and the “ two men ” projecting branches.- Rewards, £6 15s., with 6s. each to two boats for fuel used. (See Thurso, “Accounts of Services by Life-boats,” page 28.) PAIGNTON, DEVON. About 6.30 in the morning of the 22nd of May, 1943, two fishermen were on their way to haul crab pots in Teignmouth Bay, when they saw a splash in the sea, followed by a glimpse of a parachute.

A light north-west wind was blowing, with a slight swell. The men took a compass bearing and made for the spot. Twenty-fire minutes later they picked up an airman. On their way back to Teignmouth, six miles away, they were met by an R.A.F. rescue launch, which took the airman aboard.- Rewards, £2, and 2s. for fuel used.

BIRSAY, ORKNEYS. At 8.30 on the night of the 6th of June, 1943, the honorary secretary of the Stromness life-boat station received a telephone message that a soldier had slipped over the rocks into the sea near Marwick Head. A moderate south-east wind was blowing, with a moderate sea. As the Stromness life-boat was having her annual overhaul and the Longhope life-boat was too far away, the honorary secretary telephoned to Birsay, and a sailing boat with a crew of four was launched from there. Mr. Rae, of the Stromness life-boat committee, with his wife, a qualified nurse, and the life-boat coxswain, went by car to the scene of the accident.

Unfortunately the soldier had been drowned before the boat arrived. - Rewards, £2 10s.

to the crew of the boat and 5s. to the coxswain.

WESTON-SUPER-MARE, SOMERSET. About 3 in the afternoon of the 12th of June, 1943, a sailing boat capsized in broken water in Weston Bay, in a fresh westerly wind. Two young men and two young women were in the boat, and they were all thrown into the sea.

The two women and one man clung to the keel, but the other man was drowned. The accident was seen by the life-boat coxswain, second-coxswain and mechanic, who were returning to harbour with their nets in a motor boat. They rescued the three people, and gave first aid and artificial respiration to one of the women. - Rewards, £1 10s.

ST. ANDREWS, FIFESHIRE. On the morning of the 13th of June, 1943, two men in a motor boat going from St. Andrews to Crail, with a launch in tow, passed a dinghy with aman in it. A freshening westerly wind was blowing, with a choppy sea. Later they were returning from Crail to St. Andrews, with two visitors on board as passengers, when they again saw the dinghy. This time it was empty. They looked round and saw a man’s head above water, picked him up, and found him to be a Polish soldier, very much exhausted. One of the two visitors was a doctor and he revived the soldier.

Meanwhile the owner of the dinghy had seen it in the bay, apparently out of control, and had gone after it in a sailing boat. With both boats to manage, he got into difficulties, and the motor boat took them both in tow and brought them into St. Andrews harbour.

The Polish soldier was landed and sent to hospital. - Rewards, £1, and 3s. for fuel used.

PORTSOY, BANFFSHIRE. At 4.28 in the afternoon of the 14th of June, 1943, a R.A.F. fighter aeroplane was seen to crash into the sea about 2 1/2 miles from the look-out at Portsoy East Head. A light north-west wind was blowing, but the sea was smooth.

Three small motor fishing boats left harbour to the rescue as soon as they beard the crash.

They were the Look and See, with a crew of three, the Mint, with a crew of three and the Sweet Promise, with one man on board. They searched but found nothing except some equipment of the aeroplane. - Rewards, £3 10s. and 10s. for fuel used.

HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY. At about 5.15 in the afternoon of the 19th of June, 1943, the coastguard saw a boy standing on what appeared to be a door drifting off shore near the coastguard station. A strong southerly wind was blowing with a choppy sea. Before he could send help a pilot and his sister, aged fifteen, who had seen the boy’s plight before he came in view of the coastguard lookout, put out in a small rowing boat and rescued the boy. - Rewards, letters of thanks to Mr. William Jones and Miss Glenis Jones.