Port Erin, Isle of Man - At 5.35 p.m.

on 21st July, 1969, the life-boat coxswain noticed that a dinghy with three people on board was in difficulties in Port Erin bay. The life-boat Matthew Simpson was launched at 5.50 in a fresh south westerly wind with a rough sea. It was shortly after high water. The life-boat came up with the dinghy at 6 o'clock. Therewere two boys and a young man on board. They were suffering from exhaustion, and the dinghy was in danger of being swept towards the rocks under Bradda. A line was secured and the dinghy was taken in tow to Port Erin. The life-boat returned to her station at 6.30..