At 4 p.m. on 29th September, 1966, a sick man on board the m.v. Dunedin Star,of London, needed to be brought ashore.

At 9.45 the Solomon Browne life-boat was launched. The tide was ebbing. A doctor and ambulance crew were embarked at Newlyn and the life-boat met the Dunedin Star four miles south of Penzance. The sick man was taken on board the life-boat and she returned at midnight to Newlyn.

The life-boat was moored for the night and was rehoused at 5.20 p.m. on 3oth September..