St. Ives, Cornwall. At 8.15 a.m. on 20th January, 1965, the honorary secretary received a request from a doctor in St. Ives for the use of the St. Ives lifeboat to take an injured seaman, with suspected fractured ribs, from the Belgian trawler Jacqueline and land him at St.

Ives for transportation to Penzance hospital.

He immediately informed the coxswain who fired the maroons, mustered the crew, and the life-boat George Elmy, on temporary duty at the station, launched at 8.35 with the doctor on board.

After the seaman had been examined by the doctor he was taken on board the lifeboat, firmly strapped to a stretcher, and conveyed to West Pier where an ambulance took him to Penzance hospital, arriving at 9.9 a.m..