Port St Mary main road to Port Erin. To commemorate the 70th anniversary of her sinking, the starboard anchor of "Mona's Queen", an Isle of Man Steam Packet Company vessel lost off Dunkirk during Operation Dynamo on which many seamen from the Port St Mary area served, was raised on 29 May 2010 and returned to the Isle of Man to form the centerpiece of a permanent memorial. On 29 May 2012, a memorial featuring the restored anchor and commemorating the losses in 1940 of "Mona's Queen", "King Orry" and "Fenella" was opened in a ceremony at Kallow Point in Port St Mary,
St. Mary, Star of the Sea (Baltimore, Maryland) Port Covington on the south end of the peninsula became a big source of population influx. The two communities established parishes to serve their rapidly growing numbers. The parish of St. Mary, Star of the Sea was founded in 1868 to serve the local Irish Catholic community by Father Peter McCoy, Pastor of St. Lawrence Church, now Our Lady of Good Counsel Catholic Church (Baltimore), in Locust Point. The new Irish Catholic parish was founded a few blocks away from the German Catholic parish of the Holy Cross that was build just a few years prior. The first stage of