Penlee, Cornwall. At nine o'clock on the morning of the 19th September, 1961, the honorary secretary was in- formed that the motor vessel King Charles of London was making for Mount's Bay with a sick man on board, who urgently needed a doctor. The life-boat Solomon Browne was launched at 10.30 in a moderate south-westerly breeze and a moderate sea. It was one hour and a half before high water. The life-boat put into Newlyn to embark a doctor and met the King Charles five miles south of Penzance. The patient was transferred to the life-boat, which reached Newlyn at one o'clock. The sick man and the doctor were landed, and the life-boat remained at Newlyn until eight o'clock the next morning because of the weather conditions..