THREE RESCUED Port Erin, Isle of Man. At 1.41 a.m.

on 24th May, 1964, the Castletown coastguard told the honorary secretary that the local motor boat Bradley was reported to have broken down if miles west of Chicken Rock lighthouse. At 2.10 the life-boat Matthew Simpson was launched.

There was a light breeze, the sea was calm and the tide was three hours ebb.

The life-boat found the Bradley with three men on board two miles west of the lighthouse. The life-boat rescued them, towed the boat to Port Erin and returned to her station at 3.54..