Port Erin, and Port St. Mary, Isle of Man.

—About 4.30 in the afternoon, on the 6th of September, 1950, the Ramsey coastguard telephoned the Port Erin life-boat station that the fishing re- search motor vessel William Herdman, of Liverpool, was in difficulties between Chicken Rock and Langness Lighthouse.

At 4.47 the life-boat Matthew Simpson was launched in a very heavy sea with a strong southerly gale blowing; and at 4.50 the Port St. Mary life-boat The Newbons, which the coastguard had informed at four o'clock, left her moorings, too. It was raining heavily.

The Newbons found the motor vessel, with a crew of five and two biological scientists on board, between two and three miles south-east of Port St.

Mary breakwater. She was almost un- manageable, but The Newbons succeed- ed in escorting her to harbour. She then returned to her station at 6.15.

The Port Erin life-boat was recalled and she reached her station again at 6.45. The Marine Biological Station at Port Erin expressed their apprecia- tion.—Rewards: Port Erin, £14 15*.; Port St. Mary, £8 18s. 6d..