Beaver Ash
Penlee, Cornwall - At 6.20 p.m. on 19th November, 1966, the honorary secretary was informed that the life-boat would be needed to bring a sick man ashore from the m.v. Beaver Ash, The life-boat Solomon Browne was launched at 7 o'clock. It was three hours after low water. The life-boat embarked a doctor and ambulance men at Newlyn and then met the Beaver Ash four miles south of Penzance at 7.45. The patient was transferred to the life-boat and landed at Newlyn at 8.35. The life-boat remained in Newlyn harbour until the weather moderated, when she was rehoused at 10.30 a.m. on 2Oth November..