Douglas, Isle of Man.—At 6.40 on the evening of the 19th of May, 1955, the Ramsey coastguard telephoned that a small motor boat had broken down four miles east of Onchan Head. A quarter of an hour later the life-boat Millie Walton was launched. The sea was choppy, a fresh north-north-west breeze was blowing, and it was two and a half hours before high water.

The life-boat came up with the local motor boat Miranda, whose crew of two were on a pleasure trip, five and a half miles east-by-north of Douglas Head. The boat was drifting, and the life-boat towed her to Douglas, ar- riving at 9.5. The owner expressed his thanks.—Rewards to the crew, £6 13,5.; rewards to the helpers on shore, £3..