ALBERT COTTIER, assistant motor mechanic of the Ramsey (Isle of Man) life-boat station, lost his life, together with five other men when a rowing boat capsized on the 8th of March, 1956. An unsuccessful search by the Ramsey life-boat was made and is reported on page 261.

Of the other men who lost their lives, Eric James Lyall had gone out a number of times in the Ramsey life- boat, and Eric Lyall, Senior, who was a supplementary coast watcher, and Arnold Brew frequently acted as helpers at launches..