Port St Mary The Royal National Lifeboat Institution has had a lifeboat and station in Port St Mary since 1896. The current lifeboat, the Gough Ritchie II, lies to a permanent floating mooring inside the outer breakwater. The village is home to the Port St Mary Golf Links, the Island's sole 9-hole golf course, and also , a primary school opened in 1993-1994. The Isle of Man Yacht Club is also based at Port St Mary harbour. Chapel Bay, a sandy beach in the upper part of the village, is used for recreation and bathing in the summer months. Port St Mary Town
Hunt the Wren monster rat, for the wren.' By the 1890s the practice of capturing a wren was seen as rare and instead just the wren pole was being taken around the houses with singing. By the 1900s the practice remained common, with numbers of separate groups going around to Hunt the Wren in Onchan, Castletown, Douglas, Peel, Port St. Mary and Kirk Michael, and one group going to Hunt the Wren in Ramsey. Despite reports of it as 'dying out' in the 1930s, the practice of singing around the houses with the wren pole was still taking place in 1975, though it