Launches 51 Lives rescued 52 NOVEMBER 3RD. - WELLS, NORFOLK.

At 5.42 in the evening, information was received from the naval authorities at Great Yarmouth, through the coastguard, that a motor vessel; outside Wells harbour, was leaking and in need of help. A light westerly wind was blowing, with a moderate sea. The motor life-boat Royal Silver Jubilee, 1910- 1935 was launched at 6.30, and found the War Department motor vessel Caddel. She had a crew of five. Two life-boatmen were put on board her and brought her in. - Rewards, £21 19s.

NOVEMBER 3RD. - NEWHAVEN, SUSSEX.

At 9.10 at night information was received from the naval officer-in-charge that the Admiralty drifter Supporter, employed as a hospital carrier, was getting into difficulties off the harbour. A light westerly wind was blowing, with a choppy sea. At 10.5 the motor life-boat Cecil and Lilian Philpott was launched. The skipper of a naval vessel had been asked if he could supply a signaller, as the life-boat’s signalman was not available.

As he could not do so, he left his bunk and came himself, saying his signalling was fairly good. He was Lieut-Commander E. C.

Hoblyn, R.N.V.R., and the life-boatmen described his signalling as brilliant. The life-boat found the Supporter ashore to the east of the east pier, taking water badly.

There were twelve on board and the master asked the life-boat to take them off. This she did and returned with them to harbour at eleven o’clock. Later the vessel was completely broken up by the sea. A signal was received from the naval officer-in-charge, thanking the life-boat crew. - Rewards, £17 17s.

NOVEMBER 4TH. - NEWHAVEN, SUSSEX.

At seven in the morning the coastguard reported a ship ashore at Rottingdean.

A strong south-west wind was blowing, with a rough sea. The motor life-boat Cecil and Lilian Philpott was launched at 7.25, and thirty minutes later found the vessel, the Polish steamer Marocz. Her crew had been taken off by a trawler during the night and an air sea rescue launch had landed twentytwo of them at Newhaven. As it was now likely that the steamer would refloat, her master wanted his crew back, and the lifeboat sent a wireless message for them. Three were found on a nearby tug, and the life-boat took them to their ship and then stood by.

Later a motor launch brought out the twentytwo men from Newhaven, but as she could not get alongside the Marocz, the life-boat put them aboard her. She then helped in the passing of two ropes to tugs, and theMarocz was refloated and went on her way.

The life-boat returned, arriving at 1.25 in the afternoon. - Rewards, £9 5s. 6d.

NOVEMBER 5TH. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. At 2.12 in the morning the coastguard reported that landing craft L.C.T.532 was signalling for help. Her tank had been damaged and she had no fuel. The naval authorities said that the local tug was out of action, and the motor life-boat Rosa Woodd and Phyllis Lunn was launched at 2.50. A south-west gale was blowing, with a heavy swell. At 3.55 she reached the landing craft seven miles to the south-southe a stand stood by. At 7.15 a tug from Newhaven arrived and took the landing craft in tow. They made for Newhaven, with the life-boat in attendance, arriving at 10.59 that morning. The life-boat returned to Shoreham later in the day. - Rewards, £21 15s.

NOVEMBER 6TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 7.17 in the morning a message came from the Walmer coastguard that a large steamer was aground on the Goodwin Sands. The lifeboat crew were asked to stand by. This they did all day. At 7.12 in the evening the lifeboat was asked to launch. The ship in distress was the U.S.A. Liberty ship Abraham Baldwin. She was on the western side of the Sands near the head of Trinity Bay, about six miles from Walmer. The motor life-boat Charles Dibdin (Civil Service No. 2) was launched at a quarter to eight, second-coxswain F. Upton taking command, as the coxswain was ill. A strong wind was blowing from the south-west, with a rough sea, and there were frequent and heavy squalls of rain.

As the life-boat got away wind and sea increased. She set her course for the Goodwin Fork Buoy, and when she had sighted it and turned up Trinity Bay she could see the lights of the steamer.

She reached the steamer just before nine o’clock and found her lying with broken water all round her. She went alongside and tied up to her with ropes. One of the lifeboatmen then went aboard up a rope ladder to find out what the steamer’s captain wanted to do. He asked the life-boat to take off all members of his crew whom he did not need to stand by her. The second-coxswain answered that there was no urgency, and he would wait until the tide was flowing. rather than risk running aground himself on an ebbing tide with so many men on board.

Food was then passed to the life-boat from the steamer. The life-boat’s ropes that held her to the steamer were yielding to the strain and the life-boat cast off and hove to.

At one o’clock next morning the secondcoxswain decided to take the men off. The wind had rapidly increased, and was now blowing a hurricane, but it had veered to the west and this gave the. life-boat some shelter under the steamer’s starboard bow. The life-boat was rising and falling heavily alongside the steamer, held by one head rope, with her engines working, and it needed an hour to take off 31 of the American seamen by a rope ladder. All the time this was being done the steamer pumped out fuel oil. Some of it was washed aboard the life-boat and her crew found it very difficult to stand on her deck. It was now close on two in the morning and the life-boat made for home. It was a difficult journey, for the life-boat was so packed with men that the second-coxswain at the wheel could not see ahead, and had to have two look-outs. During the whole passage, head to wind and sea, the life-boat was continuously swept by the seas and she only just missed striking an old wreck. She safely reached Walmer at three in the morning. Four days later the Abraham Baldwin was refloated and went on her way.

The 31 lives taken off her by the life-boat were considered to have been landed and not rescued.

It was a service carried out in difficult conditions with great skill and judgment, and the Institution made the following awards : To Second-coxswain (acting-coxswain) F.

UPTON its thanks inscribed on vellum ; To him and each member of the crew a special reward of £1 in addition to the ordinary scale reward of £2 15s. 6d. Standard rewards to crew and launchers, £35 12s. 6d. ; additional rewards to crew, £8 ; total rewards, £43 12s. 6d.

A letter was also written to the branch specially commending the motor-mechanic, C. P. Cavell, and G. Riley and W. Riley, the two members of the crew who acted as lookouts on the return journey and to whose vigilance it was due that the life-boat just missed striking the wreck.

NOVEMBER 10TH. - BERWICK - ON - TWEED, NORTHUMBERLAND. A t 10.10 at night the coastguard reported the motor fishing vessel 1078, on Admiralty service, ashore on Spittal Point. A moderate south-west wind was blowing, with a moderate swell. The motor life-boat J & W was launched at 10.35 and found that the vessel’s engine had broken down. She had a crew of thirteen. She refloated, and the life-boat took her in tow, bringing her safely into harbour shortly after midnight. - Rewards, £16 4s.

NOVEMBER 13TH. - WELLS, NORFOLK.

At 5.50 in the evening the coastguard reported a landing craft in need of help outside Wells harbour. A strong north-west wind was blowing, with a rough sea ; it was raining and visibility was nil. The motor life-boat Royal Silver Jubilee 1910-1935 put out from harbour at 6.10. She saw a light and found L.C.T.908 ashore on the east side of the harbour itself, but the sea was too rough to approach her that way, so she reentered the harbour and approached from the inside. She let go an anchor, but it fouled and she herself grounded. At low water the life-boat crew laid out, their anchor to windward once more and helped the crew of the landing craft lay out their own anchor. When the tide made, the lifeboat took up a position inside the harbour and showed a light to guide the vessel if she refloated. She did not get off, and the lifeboat, after remaining until after high water,returned to her station, arriving at eight o’clock next morning. L.C.T.908 refloated later. The life-boat had been out at night in bad weather for fourteen hours, and an increase in the usual money award on the standard scale was made to each member of the crew. - Standard rewards to crew and helpers, £29 7s. 6d. ; additional rewards to crew, £4 10s. ; total rewards, £33 17s. 6d.

NOVEMBER 14TH. - KIRKCUDBRIGHT.

During the afternoon a returning fishing boat reported that another fishing boat, with two men on board attending to their lobster creels, was in difficulties. A south-east gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea. The motor life-boat Morison Watson was launched at four o’clock, and half an hour later found the small boat sheltering off Ross Island. She had lost her rudder, her anchor was not holding, and she had been holed. The lifeboat took off the two men and towed their boat to Kirkcudbright, arriving at nine that night. - Rewards, £11 16s.

NOVEMBER 16TH. - DUNMORE EAST, CO. WATERFORD. At 3.35 in the afternoon coastwatchers at Brownstown Head saw a boat in difficulties in Tramore Bay and informed the life-boat station. A strong south-south-east wind was blowing, with a very rough sea. The motor life-boat Annie Blanche Smith was launched at four o’clock, and found the trawler Lena, of Waterford.

She had a crew of two. They had had difficulty with their trawl and their engine had been stopped by water coming in through a hole in the boat’s side. The life-boat took them on board and took the Lena in tow, but had to give it up, and the boat was blown on to the rocks near Tramore and became a total wreck. The life-boat reached her station again at 7.15 that evening. - Rewards, £14 2s.

NOVEMBER 18TH.. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE. At 11.27 at night the coastguard reported that a fire had been seen nine to ten miles north-west of Kinnaird Head. A light wind was blowing, with a moderate sea, and the night was dark. The motor life-boat John and Charles Kennedy was launched at 11.41 and searched until morning in company with an R.A.F. boat.

At daybreak she found the wreckage of an aeroplane and oil, but no sign of life. She took some wreckage on board and reached harbour again at 10.30 next morning. - - Rewards, £22 9s. 6d.

NOVEMBER 20TH. - SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. At 10.45 in the morning the life-boat crew were assembled, as anxiety was felt for the motor fishing coble Gratitude, which was at sea. A north-east gale was blowing, with heavy broken water. The motor life-boat Herbert Joy II was launched at eleven o’clock and found the coble about a mile and a half off Castle Hill. She had a crew of three. The life-boat passed life-belts to them and escorted the boat to harbour, which they reached at one o’clock that afternoon.- Rewards, £21 2s.

NOVEMBER 20TH. - PORTRUSH, CO. ANTRIM.

At 11.45 in the morning the motor life-boat T.B.B.H. was launched in a northerly wind and a heavy sea. She found the motor fishing boat Hazel, in difficulties, one mile west of Ramore Head. She had a crew of three. Her engine had been flooded when heavy seas broke on board. The lifeboat took her in tow and brought her into harbour, arriving at 12.20 that afternoon.- Rewards, £6 12s.

NOVEMBER 21ST. - PORTRUSH, CO. ANTRIM.

At 10.53 at night the naval officerin- charge at Londonderry asked that the lifeboat should go to Magilligan Point, Lough Foyle, and a wait orders. A moderate southerly wind was blowing. The motor lifeboat T.B.B.H. was launched at 11.20 and arrived and dropped anchor at 2.30 next morning. At 8.30 she weighed anchor and went alongside a Canadian navalship H.M.C.S. Jollettie. A tug had arrived to tow the Jollettie, and the life-boat put her captain on board the tug. As her services were no longer needed she returned to her station, arriving at 11.40 that morning. - Rewards, £22 9s. 6d.

NOVEMBER 22ND. - ARRANMORE, CO. DONEGAL. At 12.15 in the morning the lookout post reported flares to the north of the island. A strong southerly gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea. The motor life-boat B.A.S.P., on temporary duty at the station, was launched at one o’clock and found, five miles to the north, the motor fishing boat Finross from Cruit Island, with a crew of five. She had been overtaken by bad weather while herring fishing, and her crew, after getting their nets aboard, were unable to start the engine. Realising that they were drifting to sea with the ebb tide the men burnt their shirts soaked in paraffin to attract attention. With some difficulty the life-boat took the Finross in tow and brought her into Burtonport at seven o’clock that morning. She reached her station again at eleven o’clock. - Rewards, £26 2s. 8d.

SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT PADSTOW NOVEMBER 23RD. - PADSTOW, CORNWALL, AND CLOVELLY, DEVON.

At 2.30 in the morning the Padstow coastguard telephoned that news had been received from the naval authorities at Falmouth that a ship was ashore at Knap Head, near Welcombe Mouth. A fresh westerly wind was blowing, with a rough sea and very heavy, blinding squalls of rain. At 3.30 the No. 1 motor life-boat Princess Mary was launched. The second motor-mechanic was in command, as he had greater experience than the coxswain and second-coxswain, both of whom had only recently been appointed. The information was also sent to Clovelly and the motor lifeboat City of Nottingham put out at three o’clock. She reached Welcombe Mouth two hours later. There she found the Norwegian steamer Sjofna, of Oslo, loaded with china clay and bound from Fowey to Larne. She had a crew of nineteen. She was inside the breakers under high cliffs, one mile south of Knap Head. The Clovelly life-boat could not make contact with her and stood off to await daylight.

At 6.25 the larger Padstow life-boat (she was a 60-feet boat as compared with the 35 feet of Clovelly) arrived. She had had 28 miles to travel. She found the Sjofna broadside on to the seas, which were pounding her. All her crew had taken refuge on the bridge. It was still quite dark and as there was a reef of rocks near the steamer the actingcoxswain decided to wait. As soon as day came he anchored and dropped down stern first towards the wreck.

All the time the life-boat was swept by heavy following seas, and one broke right on board her, injuring one of the crew. As each sea broke, the motor-mechanic steamed up to meet it, so as to take the strain off the cable.

When the life-boat got near enough she fired two lines from her linethrowing gun. Each fell over the steamer, but the crew were unable to get hold of them in the heavy seas breaking on board. The acting coxswain then hove up his anchor and anchored in a fresh position, from which he could drop down nearer to the steamer’s bridge. The life-boat was now so close inshore that she was bumping heavily on the bottom in the trough of the seas. The line-throwing gun again fired two lines and this time the Sjofna’s crew were able to seize them and make them fast. By means of these lines a breeches buoy was rigged between the steamer and the life-boat and seven men were dragged to the life-boat through the seas.

Then the line, which had been chafed, was carried away. As the life-boat had no more lines to fire, the acting coxswain went out through the breakers to the Clovelly life-boat, which was standing by, and borrowed her linethrowing pistol. He did not need to use it, however, for he saw that the coastguard life-saving apparatus company had now got a line on to the steamer from the top of the cliff’s and was taking off the twelve remaining members of her crew. The life-boat then made for Padstow, which she reached at 3.45 in the afternoon. She had been out for over twelve hours.

The Clovelly life-boat got back to her station at 4.15 in the afternoon ; she had been out for over thirteen hours.

The Padstow acting coxswain acted with great courage and skill in taking this 43-ton life-boat right into the heavy surf. The Institution made the following awards : To ACTING-COXSWAIN WILLIAM ORCHARD, the silver medal for gallantry, with a copy of the vote inscribed on vellum. He was also awarded the Miss Maud Smith reward for courage in memory of John, 7th Earl of Hardwicke, given for the bravest act of life-saving of the year by a life-boatman.

This is the award for 1945, the year in which the medal for this service was awarded ; To JOHN T. MURT, coxswain, and JOHN H. ROKAHR, motor-mechanic, the thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum ; To MR. R. R. WILTON, honorary secretary, a letter of appreciation ; To the acting-coxswain and each member of the crew a special reward of £2 in addition to the usual reward on the standard scale ; To the Clovelly coxswain and each member of the crew a special reward of £1 in addition to the usual reward on the standard scale.

Padstow : standard rewards to crew, £8 9s. 6d. ; additional rewards to crew, £14 ; total rewards, £22 9s. 6d.

Clovelly : standard rewards to crew and helpers, £48 7s. ; additional rewards to crew, £8 ; total rewards, £56 7s. Total rewards for both life-boats: £78 16s. 6d.

A letter was received from the Norwegian Government expressing its most sincere thanks.

For their outstanding and arduous services during a period of sixteen hours’ continuous duty the Hartland life-saving apparatus company were presented with the shield given eachyear by H.M. Coastguard for the best service of the year by the life-saving apparatus.

NOVEMBER 24TH. - FILEY, YORK-SHIRE. The motor life-boat The Cuttle was launched at 12.35 in the afternoon in a strong north-north-west wind, with a rough sea, to the help of the local fishing boats. As most of the regular members of the crew were out fishing an acting-coxswain took charge. She escorted ten boats into harbour and did not get back to her station until 5.15.

- Rewards, £18 0s. 6d.

NOVEMBER 25TH. - YARMOUTH, ISLE OF WIGHT. During the afternoon of the 24th of November the Admiralty salvage officer requested that provisions and sundry small gear for salvage purposes should be taken to the S.S. Cantal. She had gone ashore some time before and her crew were running short of food. No other suitable boat was available, and at eight o’clock in the morning of the 25th the motor life-boat Greater London (Civil Service No. 3), on temporary duty at the station, was launched. She took with her a salvage officer, put him, the provisions and the gear on board the Cantal and returned to her station, arriving at 11.15. - No expense to Institution.

NOVEMBER 25TH. - NORTH SUNDERLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND. The motor life-boat W.R.A. was launched in a heavy sea at 1.30 in the afternoon and stood by at the harbour mouth while the local fishing boat Silver Scale came in. She returned to her station at 2.45. - Rewards, £13 4s.

NOVEMBER 26TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.

At 5.5 in the afternoon the coastguard asked for the life-boat to go out and escort in the naval harbour launch. A westsouth- west wind was blowing, with a heavy swell on the harbour bar. The No. 1 motor life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth was launched at 5.20 and found the launch D.421049 about two miles north-north-east of Whitby. She had put out to sea again when the coastguard had signalled to her not to attempt to enter harbour. The skipper was anxious to get in as his boat was small and the weather getting worse. Escorted by the life-boat the launch got in without mishap at 6.35.- Rewards, £14 18s. 6d.

NOVEMBER 27TH. - ARKLOW, CO. WICKLOW.

A returning fishing boat reported that another fishing boat, the St. Gerrard, had broken down. A south-south-west wind was blowing, with a very rough sea, and the weather was getting worse. The motor lifeboat lnbhear Mor was launched at six in the evening, and twenty minutes later reached the St. Gerrard half a mile south of the harbour. She had a crew of three. The life-boat took her in tow and brought her in at seven o’clock. - Rewards, £4 10s. ; and property salvage case.

The following life-boats were launched, but no services were rendered for the reasons given :

NOVEMBER 3RD. - BEMBRIDGE, ISLE OF WIGHT. Two men had been reported in difficulties near some rocks, but nothing was found and it was presumed that porpoises had been mistaken for men. - Rewards, £6 3s.

NOVEMBER 4TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK.

The life-boat went out to help in an attempt to salve a steamer which had been stranded since 1939. On the 20th of October she had gone out for the same purpose. The operaions were again unsuccessful. - Property salvage case.

NOVEMBER 6TH. - SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE.

A red flame, thought to be from a burning aeroplane, had been seen, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £21 7s.

NOVEMBER 6TH. - NEWHAVEN, SUSSEX.

A tank landing craft had gone ashore, but the water was too shallow for the lifeboat to get near. Eventually the crew of the landing craft were able to walk ashore.- Rewards, £17 17s.

NOVEMBER 6TH. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO. WEXFORD. A fishing boat had been reported in difficulties, but her anchor held and she sailed home on the following day. - Partly paid permanent crew.

Rewards, £6 18s. 6d.

NOVEMBER 8TH. - PEEL, ISLE OF MAN.

At 8.45 at night the coastguard reported a red flare, and a few minutes later the position was given as north-west-by-west, ten miles from Peel. A very strong north-west wind was blowing, with a very rough sea and some rain. At 9.45 the motor life-boat Helen Sutton was launched, manned by only five men instead of seven. She went on the course given for fourteen miles but saw only a convoy and a corvette. She returned at 3.40 next morning. An air-sea rescue boat which had also gone out was recalled on account of the weather. The life-boat’s crew of five had been out for six hours at night in very bad weather, and an increase in the usual money reward on the standard scale was made to each of them. - Standard rewards to crew and helpers, £22 4s. 6d. ; additional rewards to crew, £3 2s. 6d. ; total rewards, £25 7s.

NOVEMBER 11TH. - RAMSGATE, KENT.

The Dutch steamer Fagerbro had gone ashore on the Goodwin Sands and survivors in a ship’s boat had been reported missing, but the life-boat saw nothing of them. Later it was learned that all survivors had been found.

- Rewards, £14 17s.

NOVEMBER 14TH. - BROUGHTY FERRY, ANGUS. A naval landing craft had stranded, but her crew were saved by the coastguard life-saving apparatus. - Rewards, £6 18s.

NOVEMBER 14TH. - SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE. Airmen from a crashed bombing aeroplane had landed on a sandbank, but were rescued by another vessel before the life-boat arrived. - Rewards, £15 16s.

NOVEMBER 15TH. - ARKLOW, CO. WICKLOW.

A fishing boat at anchor had gone ashore when the rope broke, but she did not need the help of the life-boat. - Rewards, £15 10s. 6d.

NOVEMBER 17TH. - LERWICK, SHETLANDS.

A British Warwick aeroplane had made a forced landing on the sea, but while the life-boat was searching she learned, by wireless, that the crew had been rescued.- Rewards, £20 0s. 6d.

NOVEMBER 17TH.. - HASTINGS, SUSSEX.

At 9.5 in the morning the coastguard telephoned that a naval landing craft between Hastings and Fairlight was making bad weather. Seventeen minutes later he reported distress signals from the vessel. She was going ashore between Pett Level and Winchelsea.

A strong southerly wind was blowing, with a very rough sea. The motor life-boat Cyril and Lilian Bishop was launched at 10 o’clock and went to the position given off Pett, but she saw nothing. The landing craft had in fact gone ashore at Galloways and the twenty-nine men on board had been able to get to land. The life-boat searched nearly to Rye Harbour and when two miles south-west of it she capsized, turning completely over. The coxswain and two others were washed out, but all three were saved.

Another man had his nose broken. When the life-boat righted herself the engine was easily restarted, and the life-boat arrived back at Hastings at 1.10 that afternoon. The lifeboat had received some damage and was placed off service. It had been a trying ordeal for the crew, and the helpers on shore had been wet through twice. An increase in the usual money award on the standard scale was made to each member of the crew and to the helpers. - Standard rewards to crew and helpers, £31 5s. ; additional rewards to crew and helpers, £24 14s. ; total rewards to crew and helpers, £55 19s. The man who broke his nose was compensated.

NOVEMBER 17TH. - SELSEY, SUSSEX.

A landing craft had gone ashore, but became high and dry at low water and her crew walked ashore. - Rewards, £10 18s. 6d.

NOVEMBER 17TH. - DOUGLAS, ISLE OF MAN. An object bearing a light had been reported, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £17 12s. 6d.

NOVEMBER 17TH. - YARMOUTH, ISLE OF WIGHT. At 8.15 in the morning the coastguard telephoned that a small vessel was making signals of distress off Blackwood Point, Brook. A fresh south-west gale was blowing, with heavy squalls and a heavy breaking sea. The motor life-boat Greater London (Civil Service No. 3), on temporary duty at the station, was launched at 9.5 She made a long search, but found nothing, and reached her station again at 3.10 that afternoon.

An increase in the usual money award on the standard scale was made to each member of the crew. - Standard rewards to crew and helpers, £6 ; additional rewards to crew, £3 10s.; total rewards, £9 10s.

NOVEMBER 18TH. - WICK, CAITHNESSSHIRE.

Several ship’s boats and wreckage had been reported, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £19 13s. 6d.

NOVEMBER 1 8TH. - THE MUMBLES, GLAMORGANSHIRE. The American steamer Santa Cecilia, of New York, had collided with the American escorting destroyer Camp, but other vessels took them in tow. - Rewards, £10 4s.

NOVEMBER 19TH. - PORT ERIN, ISLE OF MAN. A ship’s boat had been reported adrift, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £15 9s.

NOVEMBER 19TH. - NEWBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE. An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £10 8s.

NOVEMBER 20TH. - BARRA ISLAND, HEBRIDES. An air-sea rescue launch’s engine had broken down, but she was able to repair it and go on her way. - Rewards, £7 5s.

NOVEMBER 20TH. - FLAMBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. Two fishing cobles were out in a very rough sea, but one got to Flamborough unaided and the other made for Bridlington. - Rewards, £13 7s. 6d.

NOVEMBER 21ST. - LYTHAM-ST. ANNES, LANCASHIRE. An aeroplane had been reported in distress, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £20 6s.

NOVEMBER 21ST. - BROUGHTY FERRY, ANGUS. A Royal Naval Air Service aeroplane had crashed in the sea, but the pilot was rescued by a small boat from the shore.

- Rewards, £13 13s. (See Easthaven, “Services by Shore-boats,” 1945, page 55.)

NOVEMBER 22ND. - BARMOUTH , MERIONETHSHIRE, AND PWLLHELI, CAERNARVONSHIRE. An Admiralty minelayer had run aground, but her crew were saved from the shore by the coastguard life-saving apparatus. - Rewards, Barmouth, £8 6s. ; Pwllheli, £9 19s. 6d.

NOVEMBER 22ND. - PORT ASKAIG, ARGYLLSHIRE.

A steamer had gone ashore, but her crew were rescued by breeches buoy from the shore. - Rewards, £15 7s. 6d.

NOVEMBER 22ND. - FALMOUTH CORNWALL.

A launch from a motor vessel had been reported adrift, but she was picked up by an American landing craft. - Rewards, £13 14s. 6d.

NOVEMBER 25TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK.

A fighter aeroplane had been reported to have crashed in the sea, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £16 8s. 6d.

NOVEMBER 2 5TH. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE. A H.M. trawler had been reported in need of help, but while searching for her the life-boat was recalled by wireless as her services were not needed.- Rewards, £18 14s.

NOVEMBER 29TH. - KILLYBEGS, CO.

DONEGAL. A report had been received that a Flying Fortress aeroplane had come down as she was short of fuel, but she reached her base. - Rewards, £6 13s.