BHC3714

HMS 'Wave' Ashore at St Ives, 1952 Long Caption: A depiction of the Royal Navy 'Algerine'-class minesweeper HMS 'Wave', M385, which broke her moorings at St Ives, Cornwall, in a storm in the early hours of the morning of 30 September 1952. She was holed and flooded when she went ashore on rocks at Westcott's Quay near the Arts Club. The crew were evacuated by breeches buoy and the ship was eventually winched off the rocks by two boom-defence vessels after being ingeniously re-floated by having a barrage balloon stuffed into the hole at low tide and then partly inflated. Credit line: © National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London. Reproduced with kind permission of Diana V. Smith and Daphne E. Brown Object: BHC3714 Artist: Ellis Silas Date: 1952 Medium: oil on canvas Size: 503 mm x 650 mm Click here to buy a bespoke print of this image.