INJURED CHINESE SEAMEN TAKEN OFF SHIP Penlee, Cornwall. On the 1st September, 1962, news was received that the motor vessel Ben Hope was approaching Penzance with two injured men on board. They had been severely burnt in an accident in the engine room. At 2.30 in the afternoon the life-boat Solomon Browne was launched in a moderate south-south-east breeze, a choppy sea and a flooding tide. She picked up a doctor and a stretcher at Newlyn and met the Ben Hope five miles south of Penzance at four o'clock.

The doctor was put on board, and at 4.35 he and the two injured men, who were Chinese, came on board the lifeboat, which landed them at Newlyn at five o'clock. The life-boat then returned to her station, arriving at 5.30..