SEPTEMBER 18TH. -PORT ERIN, AND PEEL, ISLE OF MAN. At 11.21 in the morning the Castletown coastguard reported to the Port Erin life-boat station that the Peel life-boat, had launched at eleven o’clock to search for the herring drifter Manx Lass, of Peel, which was overdue. A strong southsouth- east breeze was blowing and the sea was rough. Mist had reduced visibility to a quarter of a mile. It was thought advisable for the Port Erin motor life-boat to join in the search, and at 12.21 the Matthew Simpson was launched. She found the herring drifter half a mile north-east of the Calf of Man, with her nets foul of her propellers. She had been helpless for about fourteen hours, and had lost all her fishing tackle. The life-boat escorted her into Port Erin Bay and the lifeboatmen helped to clear her propellers. The life-boat then returned to her station at one that afternoon, and the herring drifter left for Peel at 1.30.

In the meantime the Peel life-boat was still searching and, finding nothing, she returned to her station at 7.40 that evening. - Rewards: Port Erin, £5 14s. 6d. ; Peel, £14 18s. 9d..