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On the evening of the 27th November it was reported that a member of the Board of Trade life-saving rocket apparatus crew had fallen over a cliff and been seriously injured, and that it was necessary to get him to the mainland for hospital treat- ment. As both steamers serving the island were at Penzance, it was decided to take him in the motor life-boat Cunard. She was launched at 8 P.M. in a very strong west breeze, with a rough sea, and arrived at Penzance just before one in the morning. She left again at 2.35 A.M., and returned to her station at 9.30 A.M.—No expense to the Institution..