Penlee, Cornwall. At 5.30 on the evening of the 4th of January, 1961, the honorary secretary was informed that the motor vessel Mille Heering of Copenhagen would be off Penlee about 11.45 and that medical help was needed.

When the life-boat Solomon Browne was launched at 10.30 there was a lightnortherly wind with a smooth sea, and it was low water. The life-boat em- barked a doctor at Newlyn and made for the rendezvous arranged with the Danish ship. The doctor was put on board, and after receiving medical treat- ment the man was transferred to the life-boat. He was landed at Newlyn at one o'clock in the morning. The life- boat returned to her station and was rehoused at nine o'clock..