Penlee, Cornwall. At 2.45 on the afternoon of the 16th June, 1961, a message was received that there was a sick child aboard the Greek motor vessel Doriefs, who ought to be brought ashore. The vessel was making for Penzance. The weather was fine, there was a light south-westerly wind, and the sea was smooth. At 4.30 the life- boat Solomon Browne was launched on a flooding tide. She made for Newlyn to embark the port medical officer, and after leaving Newlyn at 4.45 she met the Doriefs three miles south of Penzance.

A sick child was taken off and landed at Newlyn. The life-boat returned to her station at 6.30..