Shorehani Harbour, Sussex. At 2.25 on the afternoon of the 5th of January, 1959, a message was received from Niton radio that a Greek seaman aboard the S.S. Panaghia had been taken ill and needed medical attention. At 2.55 the life-boat Rosa Woodd and Phyllis Lunn was launched with two doctors on board in a slight swell. There was a light south-south-westerly breeze and a flood tide. The life-boat found the steamer six miles south-south-west of the harbour and the two doctors were put aboard to attend the sick man.

He was then transferred to the life-boat, which landed him at 5.10. The man had acute appendicitis and was taken to hospital. Rewards to the crew, £10 10s. ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £4 5s..