Penlee, Cornwall - At 7.30 p.m. on 9th March, 1966, a telephone message was received that the life-boat Solomon Browne was needed to meet the British ship Silver Comet, as there was an injured man on board who needed hospital attention. At 12.45 a-m- on I0tn March the life-boat was launched in a light westerly breeze. It was low water. The lifeboat reached the ship four miles south of Penzance, where the man was transferred, and then went on to Newlyn, arriving at 2.30. The life-boat returned to her station, arriving at eight o'clock..