DOCTOR PUT ABOARD MOTOR VESSEL Penlee, Cornwall. At 2.30 on the afternoon of the 9th September, 1962, the honorary secretary was informed that the motor vessel Uskport, on passage from Newport, Monmouthshire, to Tunis was approaching Mount's Bay with a man on board who had had an internal haemorrhage. There was a moderate south-west breeze with a moderate sea. The tide was ebbing. At 5.30 the life-boat Solomon Browne was launched and made for Newlyn to pick up a doctor and a stretcher. She met the Uskport four miles south of Penzance.

The doctor was put on board, and shortly afterwards the sick man was lowered into the life-boat, followed by the doctor. The life-boat then returned to Newlyn, where an ambulance was waiting to take the sick man to hospital.

Because of the heavy swell on the slipway at her station the life-boat was moored at Newlyn. She reached her station at four o'clock the next afternoon..