APRIL 17TH. - DOUGLAS, AND RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN. At 5 P.M.. a message was received at Ramsey from the coastguard that an aeroplane had sighted a vessel showing distress signals about five miles to the southeast of Ramsey, and at 5.40 the motor lifeboat Lady Harrison was launched. A moderate southerly wind was blowing, with a slight sea, and there was drizzle and rain. At about 7 P.M. the life-boat found the vessel, the motor vessel Carita. Her engines had broken down, and just before the life-boat arrived she had been taken in tow by a coaster. She needed no further help, and the life-boat returned to her station, arriving at 8.30 P.M., while the coaster towed the Carita to Douglas. Meanwhile messages from the Castletown and Ramsey coastguards had been received at Douglas, and at the request of the chief naval officer the Douglas motor life-boat Manchester and Salford was launched at 6.30 P.M. She found the Carita in tow, and reported this by wireless to the chief naval officer, and was asked by him to stand by the Carita until she reached Douglas Bay. This the life-boat did, and returned to her station at 9 P.M.- Rewards : Douglas, £7 15s. 6d. ; Ramsey, £12 5s. 6d..