Penlee, Cornwall - At 6 p.m. on ist August, 1967, the coxswain was informed by the honorary secretary that two seriously injured men aboard the tanker Tahchee of Panama required hospital treatment. A rendezvous was arranged for 8 o'clock. The life-boat Solomon Browne was launched at 7.30. It was three hours after high water. She proceeded to Newlyn to pick up a doctor and ambulance crew. She met the tanker six miles south of Penzance and the two men were transferred to the life-boat, which took them to Newlyn where an ambulance was waiting to take them to hospital.

Owing to the state of the tide the lifeboat remained at Newlyn overnight and returned to her station at noon on 2nd August..