OCTOBER 29TH - 30TH. - PORT ST. MARY, ISLE OF MAN. The laden Norwegian tanker Spenanger, of 7,248 tons, bound from Milford to the Clyde with an escort, got off her course and ran on the Carrick Rock, in Port St. Mary Bay. The weather was hazy, with a light E.N.E. wind and a slight sea.

The coastguard reported the vessel aground at 2.40 A.M. and twenty-five minutes later the motor life-boat Sir Heath Harrison put out. The master of the tanker asked her to return ashore and ask for immediate help from the naval authorities. This the life-boat did. She then returned to the Spenanger, and stood by until 7 A.M., when she returned to her station. The tanker discharged part of her cargo of crude oil, but a tug, which arrived at noon, failed to get her off. At two in the morning of the 30th the life-boat again put out and took a naval officer to the Spenanger, as her stern had shifted. Another tug now came, and the life-boat remained standing by in case the tanker should capsize when an attempt was made to re-float her, but the tugs got her safely off, and she was able to go on her way escorted by the tugs.

The life-boat returned to her station, arriving at 3.30 A.M. - Rewards, £34 11s. and £28 1s..