St. Ives, Cornwall.—At 7.40 in the morning on the 31st of May, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that a tanker had been reported aground at Porth- meaor beach. At 8.3 the life-boat Edgar, George, Orlando and Eva Child was launched, in a slight swell. She found the motor vessel Sand Runner, •of Goole, in no immediate danger, but as the tide was ebbing fast, the master asked her to put out again on the flood tide. Accordingly she returned to her station at nine and left again at 2.40 in the afternoon to stand by the Sand Runner. She passed a tow rope from her to a fishing vessel, with whose help she managed to refloat the tanker.

The life-boat reached her station again at 5.30 that evening. — Rewards, £15 18*. 6d..