Port Erin, Isle of Man.—At 3 A.M. on the 4th April the coastguard reported that a steamer off the Calf of Man was sounding her siren, as if in distress. The wind was light and the sea smooth, but there was a very thick fog. The motor life-boat Ethel Day Card-well was launched at 3.30 A.M. and found the s.s. Ben Varrey, of Ramsey, making for Port Erin, going very slowly. Shewas bound from Garston for Peel with a cargo of coal, but had struck the Stack Rock and was leaking badly.

The life-boat escorted her into harbour, and returned to her station at 4.20 A.M.—Rewards, £13 16s..