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G.S. Livanos

Penlee, Cornwall- At 3 p.m. on loth April, 1966, the honorary secretary was informed that the life-boat's services had been requested at 11 o'clock to take a sick woman off a Liberian tanker. The lifeboat Solomon Browne was launched in a moderate breeze from the south east and a rough sea. It was one hour before low water. She proceeded to Newlyn to embark a doctor, nurse, and ambulance men. At 11.25 sne left Newlyn and moved to a position six miles south of Penzance, reaching the tanker G.S. Livanos at 12.45 a.m. The doctor and ambulance men were put on board and the tanker steamed further into the bay to sheltered waters, where the patient, doctor, and ambulance men were transferred to the life-boat and landed at Newlyn at 2.45. The life-boat remained at Newlyn, finally returning to her station at 10 o'clock..