Penlee, Cornwall. At 5.10 on the afternoon of the 25th of September, 1960, the port medical officer told the honorary secretary that a baby had been born on the m.v. Fravizo and that the master had asked for a doctor as soon as possible. It was arranged that the life-boat Solomon Browne should meet the vessel at 11.30 one mile south- east of the Wolf Rock. The life-boat was launched at 9.15 at high water in a slight to gentle easterly breeze with a moderate sea. She embarked a doctor and a midwife at Newlyn and on reach- ing the motor vessel put them on board.

The motor vessel made for Mount's Bay, where the water was smoother.

There the mother and the baby were transferred to the life-boat. They were landed at Newlyn at 3.15 in the morning and taken to hospital. Owing to bad weather the life-boat remained at New- lyn. Rewards to the crew, £16; rewards to the helpers on shore, £7 13s..