Penlee, Cornwall. At 9.55 on the evening of the 25th May, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that the fishing boat Susan was burning flares off Cudden Point. A fresh east-north-east wind was blowing with a choppy sea, and the tide was flooding.

At 10.5 the life-boat Solomon Browne was launched. She found the Susan with a man and a boy on board about two hundred yards south-east of Cudden Point. Her engine had broken down and she was leaking badly. The life-boat rescued the two people, put two men aboard and towed the Susan to Newlyn, arriving at 12.20 early the next morning.

The life-boat remained at Newlyn andreturned to her station at 4.30 that afternoon..