Port Erin, and Port St. Mary, Isle of Man.—About 5.35 on the afternoon of the 27th of May, 1956, a man informed the coxswain that he had seen from Cradder Head a steamer aground on the Calf of Man. At 5.55 the life-boat Matthew Simpson was launched in a calm sea. A light north-easterly breeze was blowing, the tide was ebbing, and there were fog banks.

The life-boat found the S.S. Crestville, of Liverpool, with twelve people on board, aground on a boulder beach.

Her stern was still afloat, but she was unable to pull herself off on the ebb tide. She was in no immediate danger, and the life-boat stood by. At 9.15 the Port St. Mary life-boat Civil Ser- vice No. 5 put out and half an hour later she too reached the position.

Both life-boats helped to refloat the i Crestville on a flooding tide. They then returned to their stations, Port Erin arriving back at 12.5 early on the 28th and Port St. Mary at 12.15.

—Rewards: Port Erin. Property Sal- vage Case; first information money, 10s. Port St. Mary, rewards to the crew, £9 16,s<..