MAY 8TH. - ST. IVES, CORNWALL.

Shortly after 4 A.M. a message was received from the naval authorities, through the coastguard, asking for the life-boat to meet a trawler due at St. Ives at 5 o’clock with survivors on board from a sunken ship, some of them wounded, and the motor life-boat Caroline Oates Aver and William Maine was launched at 4.45 A.M. A light S.S.E. breeze was blowing, but the sea was rather rough.

The life-boat took out a doctor and ambulance men and met H.M. Trawler Pearl.

She had on board survivors from H.M.S. Viva II, which had been attacked and sunk while on escort duty. After putting the doctor and ambulance men on board, the life-boat returned ashore, took out respiratory apparatus and then landed five of the survivors.

At six in the morning she put to sea and searched a wide area for more survivors, but found none, and returned at 2.40 P.M.

In the meantime a steamer landed three men whom she had picked up. The Viva II, in the early months of the war, was under the command of Captain R. L. Hamer, R.N., D.S.O., the Institution’s deputy chief inspector of life-boats, who won the D.S.O. while serving in her. - Rewards, £10 7s. 6d..