The Wave Rescue in England, 1952
Jan. 10, 1952 - St. Ives, Cornwall, U.K. - Women and girls helped to rescue 62 men yesterday from the 1, 000 ton vessed Wave, which was driven ashore by a gale at St. Ives, Cornwall. They hung on to the surging ropes while fishermen, policemen and shopkeepers hauled the men ashore. Showers of oil from the ship swept over the quayside, and a doctor went among the drenched rescuers wiping it from their eyes. The Wave, a fishery protection vesses, was driven on to the rocks only 20 feet from houses in the town
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