Port St. Mary, Isle of Man.—At 1.15 in the morning of the 13th of June, 1947, the Castletown coastguard reported that a boat entering Castletown Bay was burning a flare. She was close inshore and it was thought that she would reach the beach, but at 1.45 the coast- guard reported again that she had gone on to the Seal Rocks, still burning flares, and that her crew were calling- for help. The motor life-boat Sir Heath Harrison was launched at 2.30, but the . bowman's foot was badly crushed under a wheel of the carriage and he had to be taken to hospital.

The life-boat made for the Seal Rocks in a fresh easterly breeze and slight sea and found the motor yacht Rosina with two on board, aground, with her engine-room awash and her propellers damaged. She was in danger of sinking. The life-boat pulled her clear of the rocks and towed her to the harbour, arriving back at her station at 5.30.—Rewards, £22 19s..