Penlee, Cornwall. At three o'clock on the afternoon of the 25th June, 1961, the honorary secretary received a message that the life-boat would be needed to meet the motor vessel La Colina of London off the Wolf Rock lighthouse and take off a badly injured seaman. There was a light north-westerly breeze with a smooth sea. It was low water when the life-boat Solomon Browne was launched at eleven o'clock at night to embark a doctor and an ambulance crew at Newlyn. The life-boat met the motor vessel at the point agreed, and the doctor went on board her. The seaman, who had dislocated his shoulder, was then transferred to the life-boat. Mean- while a further message had been received from Land's End radio that the Swedish steamer Mergus was approach- ing Wolf Rock, and that one of her crew suffering from a poisoned arm needed medical attention. After leaving the La Colina the life-boat closed the Mergus. Within half an hour the sick man was transferred, and the life-boat made for Newlyn, where the two patients were landed and removed to hospital. The life-boat then returned to her station, arriving at 4.20..