Port Erin, Isle of Man.—At about 3.10 P.M. on the 24th July, 1938, just as the annual sacred service at the life-boathouse was beginning, news was received that a sea-plane had come down three or four miles off Port Erin.

A S.W. breeze was blowing. The sea was smooth. No signals were seen from the sea-plane, but the motor lifeboat Ethel Day Cardwell was launched at 3.15 P.M., and found her to be a Royal Air Force machine bound from Invergordon to Mount Batten, Plymouth.

The officer in command said that he had had trouble with the starboard engine. The life-boat towed her into the bay, where she was anchored at about 4.30* P.M. A little later the wind freshened, and it was thought that it would be safer for the life-boat to take the sea-plane to Port St. Mary, where there was more shelter. This she did, leaving Port Erin at about 7 P.M. and arriving back at 9.30 P.M.

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