The Laxey Towing Company has also been involved with various salvage operations including the administration and eventual disposal of the wreck of the Scottish scallop dredger, Solway Harvester.

Its primary area of operation covers a sizeable part of the eastern segment of the Irish Sea from Douglas, Isle of Man; to Liverpool Bay, North Wales and Anglesey, the Fylde and Cumbrian coasts, the Solway Firth and southwest Scotland.

His final duty in post involved his piloting the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company's new-build Ro-pax ferry Manxman into Douglas upon her arrival following her voyage from the Hyundai Mipo Dockyard, Ulsan, South Korea.

The operation to make the situation safe involved the Sunrush, which was on station for a considerable period whilst attempts were made to secure the linkspan, which at one stage was in danger of coming into contact with the Douglas Sea Terminal.

It was also during the early part of the 1980s that the Laxey Towing Company expanded its sea-going cargo services, operating from numerous ports around the northern area of the Irish Sea to Douglas and Castletown.

Larger sea-going barges were acquired which were also able to use the shallow water port of Castletown, a fact which was very much to the advantage of coal merchants GMS Fuels which found the service of great use in supplying their Douglas and Balthane depots.

[2] The Mona's Isle encountered significant trouble berthing at Douglas, and so again the tugs of the Laxey Towing Company were called upon to render assistance with both the Union and Salisbury involved in the operation.

Allied to this, the company still undertakes a wide and varied operation ranging from harbour maintenance in the form of dredging to offering tender services to the numerous cruise liners which now visit Douglas.

In 2001 the Laxey Towing Company set about re-establishing a service predominately aimed towards tourists to the Isle of Man,[4] with the re-introduction of coastal cruises during the summer visiting season.

[5] Following the subsequent raising of the Scottish scallop dredger the Solway Harvester, the vessel lay tied up at Douglas Harbour during a protracted and laborious legal wrangle.