Penlee, Cornwall. On the 16th Decem- ber, 1961, the port medical officer in- formed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Naess Pioneer of London, which was 120 miles from the Scilly Isles, was making for Mounts Bay to land her master, who was very ill. She had engine trouble, and her expected time of arrival was not known. At three o'clock on the afternoon of the 18th December the motor vessel was reported to be three miles south of Penzance, and the life-boat Solomon Browne was launched in a fresh east-south-easterly wind and a moderate sea. It was one hour after high water. The life-boat made for Newlyn to embark a doctor, a relief master and an engineer. She went alongside the Naess Pioneer and put the relief master and the engineer aboard.

The sick master and a Dutch doctor, who had gone aboard the previous day, were then transferred to the life-boat,which reached Newlyn at 4.30. The master was taken to hospital. The life- boat remained at Newlyn until the 27th January, as weather conditions pre- vented her from being rehoused at her station earlier..