HELP FOR SICK MAN At 9 p.m. on the same day the port medical officer told the honorary secretary that the motor vessel La Colina would be arriving off Mounts Bay at 11 o'clock, bringing a sick man on board who needed hospital treatment. There was a moderate west-south-westerly breeze with a rough sea, and it was almost high water. The life-boat Solomon Browne, with a doctor on board, left at 10.15 from Newlyn and met the vessel seven miles south-west of Penzance. A pilot and the doctor went on board and in Mounts Bay, where the sea was calmer, the sick man was transferred to the lifeboat.

When the life-boat reached Newlyn, the sick man was transferred to a waiting ambulance at 12.30 a.m. The life-boat was left on moorings at Newlyn for the night because of the severe weather conditions and rehoused at 10.30 when the weather moderated..