Small pamphlet with historical information belonging to PLT0710. The pamphlet describes the rescue and the depiction on the bowl: 'The St George Rescue. In the bay of Douglas, Isle of Man, before dawn on 20 November 1830, in rising storms, the chain of the anchored mail steamer 'St George' gave way and she was hurled on to St Mary's Rock.
Sir William Hillary and seventeen other volunteers pulled for the wreck in an open boat. After failing to approach from windward, ignoring the selfless entreaty of the captain of the 'St George' that they should not even attempt so perilous a course, they backed between the steamer and the rocks. In rolling seas, the lifeboat's rudder was beaten off, six of her ten oars smashed and her upper works badly damaged. Sir William Hillary, swept overboard, was taken from the water with six of his ribs broken.
For two hours, in worsening seas, men fought to extricate the boat to leeward. Finally, she was cast off. Twice she pounded on the rocks but the violence of the sea swept her over the reef and, mercifully, drove her broadside on to the sheltered side of St Mary's Rock. Every man of the 'St George's' crew of twenty-two was saved.