WESTHAVEN, ANGUS. At three o’clock in the afternoon of the 19th of August, 1944, a sudden change in the strength and direction of the wind raised a rather heavy sea which was breaking with great force over the rocks.

The wind was blowing in squalls. About 3.15 two boys and a girl set out in a small boat to retrieve their own boat which was moored between the rocks at Westhaven. While they were changing from one boat to another, both boats were swamped and the one they were in capsized. It threw them into the sea.

Both boys were drowned, but the girl managed to hold on to a pole fixed at the spot. The accident was seen by two men at 3.30. They immediately put out in a rowing boat, and by their prompt action saved the girl.

She had received a severe buffeting and was suffering badly from shock. The two boys were not seen again until their bodies were recovered at low water. - Rewards, £2.

SELSEY, SUSSEX. On the 28th of August, 1944, a Stirling aeroplane, owing to engine trouble, crash-landed on the sea seven or eight miles from land, and at eight o’clock her six men in their rubber dinghy were seen by two fishermen, both old life-boatmen, who were out in a l3-feet out-board motor boat to re-bait their lobster pots. A fresh to strong westerly wind was blowing ; the sea was rough. The fishermen were three miles west of Thorney coastguard station when they saw the airmen. They went at once to their help. With considerable difficulty they got the six men into their boat, but had to abandon the rubber dinghy. With eight men on board the 13-feet boat was well loaded, and it took her an hour and a half to reach shore, as her petrol was exhausted and the men had to row. They also had to bale all the time. - Rewards, £2 15s., with 2s. 6d. for fuel used and £1 15s. for repairs of engine.

DUNTULM, SKYE. About 10.40 at night on the 13th of September, 1944, a British Wellington bomber burst into flames and crashed in the sea three miles west of Rudha Hunish. A light south-east wind was blowing and the sea was smooth. Seven men put out in two rowing boats from Duntulm.

They found nothing and arrived back at 1.40 next morning. Later a body and wreckage were found by an air-sea rescue boat. - Rewards, £7.