APRIL 23RD. - ST. IVES, CORNWALL.

At 4.23 in the afternoon a message was received from the naval authorities at Penzance, through the coastguard, that a vessel was in distress through enemy action, thirteen miles north-north-east of St. Ives Head. The east-south-east wind was light, but the sea was rough. At 4.42 the motor life-boat Caroline Oates Aver and William Maine was launched, and found that the S.S. Riverton, of Newcastle, had been torpedoed, and had been taken in tow. The survivors were aboard the Admiralty tug Director, but the captain of the Riverton would not allow them to be taken on board the life-boat and brought ashore. As naval and other vessels were in attendance the life-boat returned to her station at 9.20, but the naval authorities asked her to remain afloat, as she would probably he needed during the night. When, later, the Riverton was being brought into St. Ives Bay, sinking, the life-boat put out again and brought ashore 34 of her men, in two trips. Four of them had been lost. The life-boat returned to her station at six next morning. - Rewards, £32 4s..