JANUARY 16TH. - RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN. At 12.30 P.M. the officer in command of the R.A.F. station asked for the life-boat to go to the help of an R.A.F. speed-boat, with a crew of three, which was in distress off Ramsey, and also to put men on board two other speedboats which were at anchor.

A N.N.E. gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea. At 1 P.M. the motor life-boat Lady Harrison was launched, through very heavy seas breaking on the beach. She escorted the launch into harbour, but in the heavy seas it was not possible to put crews on board the two launches at anchor. The life-boat returned at 2.30 P.M. but she could not be rehoused until 5 P.M. - Rewards, £11 12s..