INJURED MAN ON TANKER Penlee, Cornwall. At midnight on 28th August, 1965, the honorary secretary notified the coxswain that the tanker Verconella was making for Mounts Bay with a badly injured man on board.

Arrangements were made for the lifeboat Solomon Browne to meet the tanker at 7.30 a.m. on the 29th with a doctor.

She launched and met the Verconella four miles south of Penzance. The injured man was transferred and landed at Newlyn at 9.50. The life-boat reached her station at 10.30 a.m..