JANUARY 3lST. - DOUGLAS, ISLE OF MAN. At 11 A.M. the Ramsey life-boat station reported that a vessel with a barrage balloon attached was drifting towards Maughold Head, but that owing to the state of the tide the Ramsey life-boat could not launch. A north-easterly wind was blowing, with a moderate sea. The Douglas motor life-boat Manchester and Salford was launched at 11.25 A.M., and at 1.5 P.M. found the motor vessel Saturnus, almost aground at Port Moor. She had been on fire. Her wheelhouse and the hatches of the hold had been completely destroyed and her crew had abandoned her. Two naval officers had gone on board her, and they were there when the life-boat arrived. The engine-room was still smouldering but the engines were running.

The officers had stopped them, and then found that they could not start them again.

The life-boat took the Saturnus in tow, and brought her in to Douglas at 5.30P.M.

Tributes were paid by the naval and air force officers to the excellent work of the life-boat crew. - Property salvage case.