Penlee, Cornwall. At eight o'clock on the evening of the 27th of September, 1960, the honorary secretary informed the coxswain that the life-boat Solomon Browne would be required to take a sick man off the Swedish tanker Belmare.

The life-boat was launched at ten o'clock in a gentle-to-moderate south-easterly breeze with a moderate sea. It was high water. The life-boat met the tanker as arranged, five miles south of Penzance at 8.35. The man had died, and his body was landed at Newlyn at midnight.

The life-boat remained at Newlyn owing to weather conditions and was rehoused the following day. Rewards to the crew, £8 8s.; rewards to the helpers on shore, £6 18s..