APRIL 18TH. - PEEL, ISLE OF MAN. At 8.55 P.M. a message was received from the coastguard that flares had been seen four miles off Orrisdale Head. A light southerly breeze was blowing with a calm sea.

The motor life-boat Helen Sutton was launched at 9.25 P.M. and found the motor fishing boat Cicely of Castletown, with a crew of four. Her engine had broken down. The life-boat towed her into harbour and returned to her station at 1.15 A.M. the following morning.- Rewards, £l5 3s. 6d..