St. Ives, Cornwall. At two o'clock on the morning of the 20th of December, 1958, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a trawler was in distress forty miles north-north-west of St. Ives Head. The life-boat Edgar, George, Orlando and Eva Child was launched at 2.35 in a very rough sea. There was a south-south-westerly wind of near gale force and an ebb tide. At 3.46 a message was received that the German vessel Helga Schroeder was standing by the trawler Autumn Sun of Yarmouth twenty-seven miles north-north-west of St. Ives Head. The life-boat arrived alongside the trawler, which had shipped a great deal of water, but the trawler's crew did not wish to abandon her. At the skipper's request the life-boat escorted the trawler to the shelter of St. Ives. Because more than one member of the trawler's crew was injured, the life-boat sent a radio message asking for a doctor and an ambulance to be in attendance at the quayside. The fire brigade also awaited the berthing of the trawler to pump out the water. The life-boat finally reached her station at 12.38. Rewards to the crew, £18 10s. ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £12 13s..