Penlee, Cornwall. At 6.50 on the morning of the 12th of September, 1959, the port medical officer at Penzance informed the honorary secretary that a member of the crew of the motor vessel San Blas of Stockholm was ill and needed medical attention. At 7.35 the life-boat W and S was launched in a calm sea. There were light easterly airs and it was low water. The life-boat embarked the doctor and ambulance men at Newlyn and then made for the position at which she was to meet the vessel three miles south of Penzance.

The sick man, who was suffering from appendicitis, was transferred to the life- boat and landed at Newlyn at 8.45, where he was taken to hospital. The life-boat reached her station at 9.30.

Rewards to the crew, £7 ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £5 8s..