SICK MAN LANDED FROM U.S.

TROOPSHIP Penlee, Cornwall. At 9.30 a.m. on Wednesday the 21st of August, 1963, the second coxswain received a telephone message from the honorary secretary that the United States troopship Upshur, four miles south of Penzance, required the help of a doctor. The lifeboat Solomon Browne was launched at 10.30 a.m. and proceeded to Newlyn to pick up a doctor and stretcher and came alongside the troopship at 11.30 a.m.

There was a gentle breeze from the west-south-west and a slight sea on the half ebb tide. A sick man was transferred to the life-boat, which arrived at Newlyn at 12.15 p.m. The life-boat was rehoused at 4.15 p.m..