St. Ives, Cornwall.—At 5.30 on the morning of the 30th of September, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that H.M.S. Wave, a minesweeper, was driving ashore at Porthminster beach, St. Ives Bay, and that the coastguard shore life-saving team had been called out. The life-boatmen assembled at 5.39 in an east-north-east gale with a moderate sea, and got the life-boat ready for launching, but the Wave ran on Pednolver rocks at the entrance to St. Ives harbour. The tide was ebbing, but her crew of ninety-eight were in no immediate danger, and the life-boat was kept on her slipway, in case she should be needed on the next tide. The Wave's crew connected wires from the ship to the pier, and the life-boatmen helped them, using the life-boat's gear and tractor. Some of the Wave's crew stayed in her, but the remainder were taken ashore by the life-saving team and, as the weather improved, the life-boat was re-housed at 4.45. At the request of the Admiralty Salvage Officers the life- boatmen, head launcher and tractor stood by on shore from midnight until two o'clock the next morning, but they were not needed. Salvage opera- tions continued on the 2nd and at two in the afternoon, at the request of the salvage officers, the life-boat Edgar, George, Orlando and Eva Child was launched. The sea was calm with a light westerly breeze blowing, and the life-boat stood by the Ware while she was refloated and berthed in harbour.

The life-boat reached her station again at 7.45.—Rewards, £43 10s..