St. Ives, Cornwall. At 9.19 on the night of the 14th of March, 1958, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a man was adrift in a small boat in St. Ives Bay. At 9.35 the life-boat Frank and William Gates, on temporary duty at the station, was launched in a smooth sea. There was a gentle south- easterly wind and the tide was flooding.

The life-boat reached the position and found that the man was a member of the crew of the motor vessel Erkalm. He was helped to reboard his vessel, which also took on board the small boat, and the life-boat returned to her station, arriving at 11.30. Rewards to the crew, £7 10s. ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £11 15s..