Port Erin, Isle of Man.—At 1.30 on the afternoon of the 22nd of November, 1954, the coxswain reported that the Warden of the Calf of Man, who had been stranded at Port St. Mary for six days by bad weather, was anxious to return to the island because his wife was an expectant mother and had no one with her. As no other boat was available, the life-boat Matthew Simp- son was launched at 3.30 at low water.

There was a heavy swell, and a gale was blowing from the south-west.

The life-boat took the warden to a creek on the leeside of the Calf of Man, where he was able to jump ashore.

She then returned to Port St. Mary because the weather was too bad to allow her to be re-housed at Port Erin. She arrived at Port St. Mary at 5.10 and was taken back to her station the next morning. A helicop- ter took the warden's wife off the island a week later when her child was born.—Rewards, £13 16s..