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Clan Maclver

SICK MAN At 1.30 p.m. on nth March, 1966, the coxswain received a telephone call from a doctor that the life-boat Solomon Browne was needed to bring a sick man off the motor vessel Clan Maclver. At 3.30 the life-boat was launched in a strong breeze from the north west and a choppy sea. It was low water. She went to Newlyn to pick up the doctor and ambulance crew, and left Newlyn at four o'clock, reaching the motor vessel at 4.30 four miles south of Penzance. The life-boat returned to Newlyn with the sick man on board at 5.30 p.m..