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Igonda

Plymouth, South Devon.—At 7.52 on the morning of the 29th of July, 1956, the Rame Head coastguard reported that a yacht was showing distress sig- nals near Penlee Point. The life-boat Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse put out at 8.15. There was a rough sea with a strong westerly gale blowing and a flood tide. The life-boat came up with the yacht Igonda, of Portsmouth, with two men, a woman and a ten- month-old child aboard, half a mile east of Pier Cellars. A hawser was got aboard the yacht, which was towed to Cawsand Bay, where the woman and her child were transferred from the yacht to the life-boat. The yacht was then secured by another rope and towed into Millbay Docks. The life- boat arrived back at her moorings at 10.30.—Rewards to the crew, £10 16s..