Port Erin, Isle of Man.—-At 2.40 in the afternoon, on the 16th of September, 1950, the coxswain reported that two hours earlier two men had set out in an outboard motor boat to rescue a dog trapped on the cliffs north of Fleshwick beach. They had not returned, and people were anxious for their safety.

The honorary secretary, Mr. A. Q.

Russell, went immediately to Fleshwick where he found the men trying unsuc- cessfully to pull to the shore in a rough sea and rising south-south-east gale.

Their motor had failed. Mr. Russell telephoned for the life-boat, and at 3.25 the Matthew Simpson was launched.

A message was flashed to the men by a motor car's headlights that she was on her way, and the men rowed into a cave to wait for her. The life-boat rescued them, took their boat in tow, and reached her station again at 4.45.

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