Penlee, Cornwall.—On the afternoon of the 13th of October, 1955, the Port Medical Officer reported that a man in the S.S. Manolito, of Costa Rica, had been injured. At 4.15 the life-boat W. and S. was launched and went to Newlyn for a doctor. At five o'clock she embarked him. Then in a calm sea and thick fog she searched for the steamer. The life-boat communicated with the Lands End radio station, using her radio telephone, and passed a message to the ^lanolito to blow a signal on her siren to indicate her position. The life-boat felt her way to her and found the steamer at 7.15 about six miles south of Penzance.

She put the doctor on board and later re-embarked him and the patient and returned to Newlyn, arriving at 9.15.

The fog was too thick to allow the life-boat to be rehoused, and she remained there until the next day.

The owner made a donation to the funds of the Institution.—Rewards to the crew, £14 5s.; rewards to the helpers on shore, £9 18s..