On the evening of the 21st of January, 1955, the St. Mary's, Scilly Islands, life-boat was called out to go to the help of a Panamanian steamer.

After a dangerous passage among rocks and in dense fog the life-boat rescued the whole of the steamer's crew of twenty-five. For a full account of this service, for which Coxswain Matthew Lethbridge was awarded the bronze medal, see page 50..