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St.Ives 37' Oakley Lifeboat Frank Penfold Marshall Launched on February 17 to Take Morley Phillips Honorary Medical Adviser to a Dutch Trawler Johanna North Ofst I

St Ives 37' Oakley lifeboat Frank Penfold Marshall launched on February 17 to take Dr Morley Phillips, honorary medical adviser, to a Dutch trawler, Johanna, north ofSt Ives Head with an injured seaman on board. In west-north-west severe gale force winds and high seas, Dr Phillips and two auxiliary first aiders boarded Johanna and gave first aid before transferring the patient to the lifeboat to bring him ashore to hospital. The following week, in darkness, she was logo out to land a totally blind engineer from the Dutch trawler Ondenening I in a force 6 south-easterly strong breeze and very rough seas. photograph by courtesy of W. Thomas.

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