SCALED THE CLIFFS At 4.40 p.m. on 8th September, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small boat which had left Laxey at n a.m. was missing, with two adults and two children on board. There was a moderate sea with a corresponding wind. At 5.12 the life-boat Annie Ronald.

and Isabella Forrest, on temporary duty at the station, was launched on an ebbing tide. The coastguard radioed the life-boat to say that the boat had been beached in Bulgham bay and a man had scaled the cliffs to summon help. When he returned with the police the life-boat had already taken a woman and the two children to Queen's pier, Ramsey. The life-boat returned to her station at 8.45..