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A Rowing Boat (10)

AUGUST 3RD. - PORT ST. MARY, ISLE OF MAN. In the afternoon the motor lifeboat Sir Heath Harrison had just returned from an exercise when a telephone message was received from a private resident that a rowing boat, with two women on board, was in difficulties near Kentraugh. A strong south-west wind was blowing, with a heavy ground swell. The life-boat left at 3.30 and fifteen minutes later found the rowing boat one mile east of the breakwater. She was being blown on to a rocky shore. The people in her were visitors from Manchester. The life-boat took them on board and, with their boat in tow, arrived back at 4.30. - Rewards, £8 1s. 6d..