St Ives' lifeboat picks up poorly French fisherman.

The St. Ives Lifeboat, The Princess Royal, yesterday went to the aid of a member of the crew of a French fishing trawler, Iroise from Concarneau.


The St. Ives Lifeboat Station received a call at 3.30 pm yesterday from the Launch Operations Manager of the Penlee Lifeboats to say that a French trawler, registered at Concarneau in Brittany (one of France’s largest fishing ports) had reported that a member of its crew was sick and in need of urgent medical attention. The trawler was some 40 miles off St. Ives but came into the bay where The Princess Royal, with Coxswain Tommy Cocking at the helm, rendezvoused with the vessel and effected the transfer of the crewman to the Lifeboat.


The sick seaman was safely taken to the St. Ives Lifeboat Station where an ambulance was waiting to take him to hospital.