Penlee, Cornwall - At 8 p.m. on 24th August, 1966, the honorary secretary informed the coxswain that the life-boat would be needed at 7 a.m. on 25th August to land a sick man from a Norwegian motor vessel. At 6.45 the life-boat Solomon Browne was launched in a light east south easterly breeze and a calm sea.

She embarked a doctor and ambulance crew at Newlyn, and at 9.30 met the iron ore ship Beltana eight miles south of Penzance light. The life-boat returned with the patient to Newlyn at 10.45, an^ arrived back at her station at 11.30..