JULY 27TH. - ST. IVES, CORNWALL.

At 2.41 in the afternoon the St. Ives coastguard reported that a vessel four miles west of the Longships had a case of appendicitis on board in urgent need of attention. There was a light northerly wind and the sea was smooth. At 3.15 the motor life-boat Caroline Oates Aver and William Maine was launched with a doctor and an ambulance man on board. Meanwhile the vessel had been directed to St. Ives Bay, but visibility was so poor that it was not until 5.15 that the life-boat found her. She was the American steamer David L. Swain, and it was her captain who was ill. The doctor was put on board and then the captain was taken into the lifeboat, brought ashore, and sent to hospital. The David L. Swain continued on her way and the life-boat returned to her station at 6.35.

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