AFTER HEART ATTACK Penlee, Cornwall. At 8 p.m. on I2th October, 1963, the port doctor told the honorary secretary that he had received a message from Niton radio station that the United States motor vessel American Merchant had a man on board who had suffered a heart attack. He required immediate hospital treatment. The doctor had arranged to meet the ship five miles south of Penzance. There was a light south-westerly breeze with a slight sea.

It was low water. The life-boat Solomon Browne was launched at 8.15 and sailed to Newlyn to embark a doctor and stretcher. The life-boatleft Newlyn at 8.45 and came up with the American Merchant at 9.30. The patient was transferred to the life-boat, which arrived back at eleven o'clockinNewlyn where an ambulance was waiting. The patient died before reaching hospital. The life-boat remained on moorings at Newlyn during the night and was rehoused at 10.30 a.m. on the I3th..