Penlee, Cornwall - At 7 p.m. on 5th July, 1966, news was received that there was a sick man on board the Liberian tanker Alnair of Monrovia, which was some distance out. The life-boat Solomon Browne was launched at 4.25 a.m. on 6th July in a moderate north-westerly wind and a slight sea. It was two hours after low water. She proceeded to Newlyn where a doctor and two ambulance men were embarked, and then sailed to her rendezvous with the tanker. The lifeboat came alongside the tanker, five miles south of Penzance, at 5.35. The patient was taken on board and landed at Newlyn at 7 o'clock. The life-boat arrived back on station at 8.15..