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Himeros

Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 5.40 on the evening of the 17th of June, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a motor boat was in distress half a mile east of St. Govan's Head. Five minutes later the life-boat Henry Comber Brown was launched in a choppy sea, with a moderate westerly wind blowing and an ebb tide. The life-boat found the motor boat Himeros with the second coxswain and a woman on board on passage from Saundersfoot to Pembroke Dock. A fuel pipe had broken, and after the woman had been transferred to the life-boat the motor boat was taken in tow to Tenby. The life-boat reached her station at nine o'clock. Rewards to the crew, £9 16s. ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £4 Is..