JULY 31ST. - ST. IVES, CORNWALL. At 5.45 in the afternoon a message was received from the coastguard that a minesweeper was approaching, and needed a doctor for a case of suspected appendicitis. A light northeast wind was blowing, and the sea moderate.

At 6.15 the motor life-boat Caroline Oates Aver and William Maine was launched with a doctor on board, and found H.M. Minesweeper Grenadier. The sick man was put on board the life-boat, brought ashore, and taken by ambulance to hospital. The lifeboat returned to   r station at 8.45. - Rewards, £8 4s. 6d.