At ii p.m. on 3rd January, 1965, a message was received by the honorary secretary that a sick man needed to be landed from the German motor vessel Clipper at approx. 4.15 a.m. The life-boat Solomon Browne launched at 3.10 proceeded to Newlyn in a gentle north easterly breeze and a slight sea where she picked up the doctor and ambulance crew at 3.30. The sick man was taken off the motor vessel at 4.25 six miles south of Penzance and the lifeboat returned and reached Newlyn at 5.10. The life-boat was moored at Newlyn until she was re-housed at 2.30 p.m..