HEROIC DEEDS 



the pilot being reseued by another enemy machine. 

 This machine was in turn attacked by the drifter 

 and both pilots were taken prisoners, the machine 

 being so badly damaged that it sank while being 

 towed into harbour. The remaining three enemy 

 seaplanes made good their escape. The I.F.S. was 

 built in 190S at Grimsby, and was registered and 

 owned at Yarmouth. Amongst the officers upon 

 whom decorations were conferred by the King at 

 Buckingham Palace, on November 14, 191 7, was 

 Lieutenant Bell Irving, who received the Distin- 

 guished Service Cross and Bar. 



The second achievement in connection with enemy 

 seaplanes, which had become very active over the 

 waters, was by an armed trawler, the announce- 

 ment being made by the Admiralty on July 10. 

 The statement merely intimated that the Commo- 

 dore, Lowestoft, reported that at S p.m., on July 9, 

 H.M. armed trawler Iceland, Lieutenant P. Doug- 

 las, R.N.R., in command, destroyed two enemy sea- 

 planes and brought four prisoners back into port. 

 The Times correspondent at Lowestoft gave some 

 interesting supplementary details. He said that 

 the two seaplanes, carrying torpedoes, were bent on 

 the destruction of craft in the North Sea. One of 

 them came clown, and, it was said, discharged a 

 " torpedo " at a passing steamer. The weapon 

 missed its mark, and by that time the patrol vessel 

 had come within striking distance. 



The seaplane, after missing its quarry, tried to 

 rise, but there was a choppy sea on, and the waves 



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