DECEMBER 2ND. - ST. IVES, CORNWALL.

At 6.15 in the morning the coastguard reported that a vessel three miles south-east of St. Ives Head had signalled that she was sinking. A moderate north-west wind was blowing, with a rough sea. The motor life-boat Caroline Oates Aver and William Maine was launched at 7.10 and found the Dutch motor vessel Reiger, of Zuidbroek.

She had been beached in a sinking condition in Carbis Bay, and was awash forward, but her crew of twelve, who were in no immediate danger, did not wish to leave her. The lifesaving rocket apparatus was also standing by.

The life-boat brought ashore the ship’s chief officer so that he could telephone to London.

She reached her station at 8.40. - Rewards, £11 13s..