HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY. On the evening of the 16th of February, 1944, three men came ashore in their own punt from a hopper of the London Midland and Scottish Railway and anchored in the harbour. A westerly breeze was blowing, with a choppy sea.

When the men were pulling back to their hopper about 10.30 that night, their boat touched a submerged rock about 60 yards off shore, off the coastguard station. They were seen by the coastguard who switched on a light and prepared to fire a line, but at the same time Pilot Jones saw the boat and pulled off single-handed in his rowing boat, embarking the coastguard officer on the way.

They could not pull the hopper’s boat off the rock so they took the three men off and landed them on the rocks, where coastguard men were waiting to help them and took them to the slip. There Pilot Jones took them out in his rowing boat to his motor boat and, having recovered the hopper’s boat, took the men, and their boat back to their ship. - Rewards, £1 5s.

PORTAVOGIE, Co. DOWN. At three o’clock in the afternoon of the 12th of March, 1944,the coastguard saw a British Seafire aeroplane crash in the sea a mile and a half east of Portavogie lookout hut. It was high tide, with a moderate south-west wind and a moderate sea. A fisherman, Mr. John Warnock, saw the accident also and, with three other men, put out in his fishing boat Caper-Cailzie. On reaching the scene they saw oil bubbling up to the surface, and, searching round, picked up a tunic, a Mae- West jacket, a sailor’s pay book and an identity card. That was all. - Rewards, a letter of appreciation to Mr. John Warnock and his crew.

SEATON, CORNWALL. About five in the afternoon of the 20th of March, 1944, the crew of a Fortress aeroplane baled out over the land and the pilot, an American officer, then took her over the sea and himself baled out and came down in the sea about a mile south of Seaton Beach. The aeroplane crashed in Looe Bay. The weather was fine and calm. Sergeant Love, of the R.A.F., a non-swimmer, and a civilian woman, Mrs.

Pearce, with the help of another woman, Mrs. Durrant, launched a small rowing boat down a steep slope. Sergeant Love and Mrs.

Pearce then set out in the boat. It was leaking badly and Mrs. Pearce had to bale.

After twenty minutes they reached the airman.

He was much distressed. They hauled him aboard and he lost consciousness. They brought him ashore and handed him over to the R.A.F. He recovered. - Rewards, letters of appreciation to Sergeant Love, Mrs. Pearce and Mrs. Durrant.

PADSTOW, CORNWALL. About three in the afternoon of the 27th of March, 1944, a rowing boat from H.M. Patrol Boat Our Katie capsized in the surf on the Doom Bar.

The weather was fair but there was considerable surf. The boat had a crew of three, two young stokers and a cook. They were clinging to the boat. A motor boat, owned by W. Orchard, the second motormechanic of the No. 1 life-boat, was afloat with her engine running. Orchard, the coxswain of the No. 2 life-boat, W. J. Baker, and his brother, Percy Baker, the first mechanic of the No. 2 life-boat, put out in the boat.

The coastguard informed the honorary secretary of the life-boat station and the life-boat boarding boat also went out, manned by F. Mabley, the second-coxswain of the No. I life-boat, and J. H. Rokahr, the first motormechanic of the No. 1 life-boat. As Orchard’s boat was going alongside a sea threw her right over the capsized boat, but her crew were able to seize one man and drag him aboard. They were now very close to Trebetherick Rocks and Orchard took his boat ashore. Orchard and Baker then climbed over the rocks and Orchard, who got to the capsized boat first, found one man floating in the sea. This man he hauled ashore.

Returning, he found the third man almost unconscious but still clinging to the boat. To rescue him Orchard had to enter the sea and tear the man away from the boat. Then he could not get him across a deep gully, but a coastguard threw him a line and with this hauled Orchard and the rescued man across the gully. Further help had now arrived and the rescued man was taken to safety. The first man rescued was taken to Hawkers Cove by Orchard and Perry Baker and put him aboard his ship, while W. J.

Baker telephoned the resident naval officer for an ambulance to fetch the other two men.

- Rewards, £3 and a letter of appreciation to W. Orchard, £5 to the other men, with £1 for damage to boat and 2s. 6d. for fuel used.

FOLKESTONE, KENT. At two in the afternoon of the 1st of April, 1944, an American aeroplane came down fifteen miles from Dunkirk. The airmen took to their two dinghies. They had no signals, only a torch.

With this they signalled SOS, but they were not seen until about 10.45 in the morning of the 3rd of April. They were then about three miles south of Hythe. The weather was fine, with a calm sea and a light easterly wind. The airmen were seen in their dinghies by the crews of three Folkestone fishing boats which were at sea. Fishing boat F.E.45 rescued three men, F.E.93 rescued five, and F.E.149 salved the two dinghies.

One man had gone down with the aeroplane. Another had died and been buried at sea. The fishermen took the rescued men and the dinghies to Folkestone. - Rewards, £7 10s., and 9s. for fuel used.