Port St. Mary, Isle of Man.—At 9.17 on the morning of the 3rd of June, 1951, the Castletown coastguard tele- phoned that a boat was in difficulties off Langness. Fifteen minutes later the life-boat K.T.J.S., on temporary duty at the station, was launched in calm weather. Two miles east ofLangness Lighthouse she found the motor boat Angela, of Peel, with a crew of two. They said their engine had broken down while they were on passage from Birkenhead to Peel. The life-boat took the motor boat, which had been adrift for over twelve hours, in tow, and brought her into Port St.

Mary at midday.—Property Salvage Case..