Port Erin, Isle of Man. At 5.30 on the morning of 19th April, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that the Dutch motor vessel Tuskar of Groningen was being aban- doned by her crew in a position 15 miles south-west of Chicken Rock. At six o'clock, when the life-boat Matthew Simpson was launched, there was a moderate south-easterly wind with a slight sea and the tide was half ebb.

Shortly after the launch a message was received by the life-boat that the Tuskarhad sunk four miles west-south-west of Chicken Rock and that her crew had been picked up by the cable-laying ship Ariel. The life-boat met the Ariel one mile west of Port Erin and the Tuskar's crew and one member of the Ariel's crew were transferred to the life-boat.

They were landed at Port Erin and the life-boat returned to her station at 8.40..