PORTMAGEE, Co. KERRY. On the morning of the 13th of June, 1944, the 35-feet motor fishing boat Naomh Moibhi, of Dingle, was at anchor at Portmagee, sheltering from the weather. A west-north-west gale was blowing, with high seas. The Valentia motor fishing boat Lobster, with a crew of four, had failed to return from the previous night’s fishing, and the Naomh Moibhi was asked to go out and search. She had a crew of four, and three Portmagee men volunteered to go with her. She left at eleven o’clock, and found the Lobster, with her engine broken down, drifting ashore south of Bray Head. In order to get the boat in tow the skipper, at great risk, reversed into an inlet where the disabledlaunch was about to be smashed on rocks.

Both boats then made for Portmagee. The Valentia auxiliary rescue-boat arrived and accompanied them. They arrived at Portmagee at 2.30 that afternoon. The Lobster’s catch of 3,000 to 4,000 mackerel was cleared by the crews of the Naomh Moibhi and the auxiliary rescue-boat as her men were exhausted by their efforts, extending over six hours, to keep their boat off the rocks with oars. - Rewards, £7 and £1 6s. 3d. for fuel used and £1 10s. for damage to boat and ropes.

(See also “Services by Auxiliary Rescueboats.” Valentia, page 67.) LYTHAM-ST. ANNES, LANCASHIRE.. At 5.30 in the afternoon of the 27th of July, 1944, four fishermen left the fishing boat Spray, in a dinghy, to go ashore. When they were east of the House Barge, Lytham, the dinghy capsized and threw them into the sea. A light south-west wind was blowing, with a slightly choppy sea. Two Belgian fishermen, of Preston, who were in their boat Maranpat, at anchor, at once went to the rescue. They found three of the four men clinging to the keel of the upturned dinghy. One man was washed off, but one of the Belgians caught him with a boatbook. The other Belgian seized the other two, one in each hand, and held them against the current. With considerable difficulty they hauled the three men into their boat. They then searched for the fourth man, but without success. - Rewards, £2.

WHITBY, YORKSHIRE. On the morning of the 3rd of August, 1944, an aeroplane was reported down in the sea, about four miles north of Whitby. The weather was fine.

The life-boat was off service. At the request of the coastguard, four men in the motor fishing boat Silver Line, which had just returned from fishing and landed her catch, put out again at 11.30. They found an R.A.F. air-sea rescue boat searching, joined in the search for some time and then returned at 2.45 to re-fuel. Leaving again at three o’clock, they searched until five o’clock, but found nothing. - Rewards, a letter of appreciation to Mr. C. Eglon, skipper of the Silver Line, £1 which he had to pay others for baiting his lines while he was out searching, and 15s. for fuel used.

WHITBY, YORKSHIRE. On the morning of the 11th of August, 1944, it was learnt that an aeroplane had crashed in the sea, and an R.A.F. aeroplane reported a patch of oil four and a half miles north-east of Whitby. The sea was choppy, with a west-south-west wind.

At the request of the coastguard three men put out in the motor fishing boat Venus.

They searched, but found nothing and returned to harbour at 2.50 that afternoon.- Rewards, a letter of appreciation to Mr. J. Cole, skipper of the Venus, and 15s. for fuel used.

ST. ANDREWS, FIFESHIRE. At three in the afternoon of the 19th of August, 1944, a small pleasure sailing boat, with eight people on board, capsized near the East Sands, St.Andrews Bay and threw them into the water.

A strong easterly wind was blowing, with heavy squalls, and the sea was choppy. A fisherman, with his married daughter, aged 22, were in a motor boat, about 100 yards away. They went at once to the rescue.

The woman seized the people in the water, one by one, with a boat-hook and drew them close to the boat so that her father could pull them on board. In this way they rescued seven, but all efforts to revive two of them, a woman and her granddaughter, failed. The eighth of the party, a man, had disappeared.

- Rewards, £2 and letter of appreciation to Mr. R. Wilson junior and his daughter.

PORTMAHOMACK, ROSS AND CROMARTYSHIRE.

About ten at night on the 2nd of September, 1944, five men in a dinghy, belonging to a naval motor launch. left Portmahomack harbour to return to the launch.

She capsized 200 yards north of the harbour.

A light north-east wind was blowing and the sea was choppy. Nine men put out in four small rowing boats and rescued all the men, but one died later. - Rewards, £9.

ILFRACOMBE, DEVON. At five in the afternoon of the 15th of September, 1944, Mr.

N. J. Lewis, restaurant proprietor, telephoned to the coastguard that a soldier had been cut off by the tide at the bottom of the cliffs on the west side of Hele Bay. A fresh westerly wind was blowing with a choppy sea. The tide was two hours before high water. Mr.

Lewis, accompanied by Mr. C. Galliver, put out in a rowing boat, took the soldier off the rocks and landed him in Hele Bay. - Rewards, a letter of appreciation to Mr. Lewis and 10s.

to Mr. Galliver.

SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. About 5.30 in the afternoon of the 11th of October, 1944, the coastguard reported that the fishing coble B. S. Collings was in difficulties half a mile south-east of Long Nab. One of her crew of two was baling, and the other frantically waving a Dan buoy flag. A strong southsouth- east wind was blowing, with a moderate sea. The life-boat crew were assembled, but as the coble appeared to be making good headway round Castle Hill it was decided to send another fishing boat, and the keel boat Merit, with her own crew of four and the second-coxswain and the bowman of the lifeboat, put out,. She escorted the B. S. Collings, now half full of water, through broken water into harbour. - Rewards, £3 and 5s. for fuel used.