Port Erin, Isle of Man. At 11.29 on the night of the 2nd of August, 1959, the coastguard told the motor mechanic that the Swedish ship Kengis had taken a yacht in tow and was making for a position one mile west of Port Erin. The vessel had requested that the tow should be taken over by a life-boat, and at 11.45 the life-boat Matthew Simpson was launched. There was a moderate north-westerly wind and sea, it was ebb tide, and the weather was overcast. The life-boat took the yacht Cuan of Down- patrick, which had four men on board, in tow, and reached her station at 12.21.

The yacht had had an engine failure on passage from Douglas to Dublin. Re- wards to the crew, £7 ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £4 4s..