CLONTARF, Co. DUBLIN. On the evening of the 2nd of June, 1945, a sailing boat from the Clontarf Boat Club capsized north of North Bull. A moderate south-west wind was blowing with a moderate sea, and the weather was thick. Four sea scouts, seventeen to fifteen years old, and a man of forty put out in a rowing boat, and, with the help of members of the yacht club, who were out in sailing boats, picked up the two occupants of the capsized sailing boat, who had climbed on the rocks. They also brought in their boat. The Poolbeg life-boat was called out but she was not needed. - Rewards, £2 10s. (See Poolbeg, “Accounts of Services by Life-boats,” page 31.) COVE, EAST LOTHIAN. During the afternoon of the 13th of June, 1945, eight soldiers went out for pleasure in a rowing boat. A strong north-west wind was blowing, with a choppy sea. The wind carried them out to sea. Five men put out in a motor fishing boat and rescued the soldiers, by now exhausted, about two miles off Cove harbour.

The soldiers were landed and given hospitality by fishermen. The St. Abbs and Dunbar life-boats were launched, but they were not needed. - Rewards, £2 10s., and 2s. 6d.

for fuel used. (See St. Abbs, and Dunbar, “Accounts of Services by Life-boats,” page 32.) ROCKFIELD, ROSS AND CROMARTY. At five in the afternoon of the 18th of June, 1945, a Barracuda aeroplane crashed in thesea a mile east of Rockfield. A moderate south-west wind was blowing, with a slight sea. No one saw the accident, but on seeing smoke rising from the sea four men put out in a rowing boat. They found only a rubber dinghy and a seat. A destroyer, an air-sea rescue-boat and aeroplanes also searched.- Rewards, £2.

MINEHEAD, SOMERSET. At 4.45 in the afternoon of the 23rd of June, 1945, the Minehead life-boat coxswain received an urgent telephone call from Blue Anchor that a child on a rubber float was being blown out to sea. A light southerly wind was blowing, the sea calm. With another man he put out in a motor boat and went the four miles to Blue Anchor Bay, but the child had already been rescued by people from the shore. - Rewards, 15s., and 5s. for fuel used.

NEWQUAY, CORNWALL. On the evening of the 26th of June, 1945, the police reported to the coastguard that wreckage had been seen a mile and a half east of the harbour. Mr.

E. Giles, honorary secretary of the life-boat station, which had been recently closed, heard at six o’clock. He enlisted the help of the ex-second-coxswain and his motor boat, and the two put out within fifteen minutes. A fresh north-west wind was blowing, with a moderate sea. They found wreckage, apparently of a canoe, close in shore, but that was all. - Rewards, a letter of thanks to Mr. Giles and 12s. 6d. to the ex-secondcoxswain.

PORTH-Y-NANT, CAERNARVONSHIRE. At 9.47 in the evening of the 28th of June, 1945, the Porthdinllaen coastguard received a message from Mr. E. A. Dean, quarry manager, that two boys were in difficulties on a raft about one mile seaward from Porth-y- Nant Pier. The sea was calm, with a light easterly wind blowing. At the request of the coastguard, Mr. Dean and his son put off in his motor boat. They picked up the two boys, and their raft - made out of barrels and wood taken from the quarries - and towed it to Porth-y-Nant. - Rewards, £1, and 4s. for fuel used.

HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY. At five o’clock in the afternoon of the 6th of June, 1945, a small boat with four people, one a small boy, on board, capsized near Black Perch, in Holyhead outer harbour. A light southwest wind was blowing and the sea was smooth. Two men put off from the shore in a rowing boat and hurried to the spot some 300 yards away. The small boy was hanging on to a boat. A woman was being supported by a man, who, after the woman had been picked up, joined the small boy. The woman’s husband was then picked up.

Three more men put out in another boat and brought in the two persons clinging to the boat. But for the prompt rescue of the woman and the efforts of the men to revive her while still in their boat, her life might have been lost. - Rewards, £1 5s. to the crew of the first boat ; and £1 2s. 6d. to the crew of the other boat.