Port Erin, Isle of Man. At 1.20 on the afternoon of the 15th September, 1961, the police passed on to the honorary secretary a report that someone was thought to be injured on the Calf of Man, as men had been seen making signals. A fresh to strong south- westerly wind was blowing, and the sea was rough. At 1.40 the life-boat Glencoe, Glasgow, on temporary duty at the station, was launched on the flooding tide, with a doctor and a police constable on board. When the life-boat reached the Calf of Man it was found that no one had been injured, but that a warden, two ornithologists and two students were without food. Because of the weather conditions they were strongly advised to return to Port Erin.

This they decided to do, and the life- boat landed them at Raglan pier. The life-boat returned to her station at 3.10..