SECOND SERVICE TO NORWEGIAN MOTOR VESSEL Penlee, Cornwall. At 8.15 on the morning of the 27th February, 1963, the port medical officer telephoned to say that the motor vessel Livanita of Grimstad, which had a sick man on board, was approaching Mount's Bay.

He asked if the life-boat would put off to her with a doctor on board, and at eleven o'clock the life-boat Solomon Browne was launched. There was a strong south-easterly wind and a rough sea, and the tide was ebbing. The lifeboat embarked a doctor at Newlyn, and put him aboard the Livanita six miles south of Penzance. The patient, a Spaniard suffering from internal bleeding, was then transferred to the lifeboat, which returned to Newlyn, where an ambulance was waiting, at 1.20. The Barry Dock life-boat had been launched to the same Norwegian motor vessel nine days earlier..