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Ramadhan

Penlee, Cornwall - At 5 p.m. on loth September, 1966, the life-boat was asked to take a sick man off the motor vessel Ramadhan which would be arriving in Mounts Bay at about 8.45. The life-boat Solomon Browne was launched at 7.30. It was low water. She proceeded to Newlyn to pick up a doctor and ambulance crew, and left Newlyn at 8 o'clock. She met the vessel five miles south of Penzance, took off the sick man and returned to Newlyn where the patient was transferred to an ambulance. The life-boat was back at Newlyn and ready for service at 10 o'clock..