The Mona’s Queen anchor memorial service is at 2pm on Monday, May 29.

First held in 2012 after the anchor was returned to the island having been raised from the sea bed at Dunkirk, where the ship was lost during the mass evacuaion of Allied troops in 1940.

It is now at Kallow Point in Port St Mary, where the service will be held.Altogether eight Steam Packet ships were involved in the operation; three of the vessels were lost at Dunkirk with heavy loss of life, many of them Manx. They rescued 25,000 troops

The service commemorates all Steam Packet personnel lost in combat and at sea.