OFF COAST OF CORNWALL
SHIPS IN DISTRESS SEVEN LIFEBOATMEN DROWNED fU.P.A.— By Electric Telegraph— Copyright! (Received 24th January, 9.0 am.) LONDON, 23rd January. It is believed that seven persons were drowned when the St. Ives (Cornwall) lifeboat was lost in a terrific northwesterly gale to-day. The remaining member of the crew, named Freeman, was washed ashore injured. The crew was practically the same as those who on 31st January, 1938. went out to the steamer Alba, when the lifeboat capsized. but all were saved.
The lifeboat was launched at 8 a.m. in response to a summons from a steamer in distress between St. Ives and Land's End. It mak the full fury of the gale when it left the shelter of St. Ives’ Bay. A red flare indicated that the lifeboat needed help, but after that there was no sign. It is believed that a huge sea washed out seven of the crew, the majority of whom were married men with families. Freeman was able to cling to the boat which was later washed ashore.
The Padstow lifeboat also put out to a steamer which w’as disabled because of the gale and the Penlee lifeboat is searching for the crew of the St. Ives’ boat.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 24 January 1939, Page 5
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