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Clarkeden

INJURED SEAMAN Penlee, Cornwall. At 9 p.m. on i8th November, 1964, the honorary secretary told the coxswain that the motor vessel Clarkeden was approaching with an injured man aboard. At 12.45 a.m. the life-boat Solomon Browne was launched into a slight sea and gentle southwesterly breeze. It was two hours after low water. At Newlyn the life-boat picked up a doctor and ambulance team. She then made for the Clarkeden which she met about four miles south of Penzance. At 1.40 the doctor went aboard the Clarkeden, and it was decided to land the injured seaman. At 2.38 the life-boat returned to her station..