RESCUE OF A WOMAN AND DOG Port Erin, Isle of Man. At three o'clock on the afternoon of Wednesday the llth of September, 1963, the Ramsey coastguard told the honorary secretary that a woman was stranded on the cliffs at Bradda Head. She was reported to be about 40 feet up and could not get any farther up or down. The life-boat Matthew Simpson was launched at 3.15 p.m. with a boarding boat in tow. At the scene of the casualty two life-boatmen went ashore, climbed the cliff and found, to their surprise, that the woman had a large dog with her. By means of a rope both the woman and the dog were helped down the cliff and into the lifeboat.

The woman and her dog were landed at Port Erin jetty at four o'clock and the life-boat was rehoused an hour later. A man who had successfully climbed the cliffs in advance of the woman made a donation to branch funds and a gift to the life-boat crew. The life saving team had also been alerted, but the lifeboat had rescued the woman before they reached Bradda Head..