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Benimora

Fishguard, Pembrokeshire. At ten o'clock on the night of the 7th of September, 1959, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht was overdue on passage from Milford Haven to Fishguard and that a woman had reported seeing a red light to sea- ward between Strumble Head and Porth-Dewi. The life-boat Howard Marryat was launched at 10.31 in dense fog. There was a calm sea with light airs. The tide was half flood.

With the help of radar bearings passed by cross-channel steamers leaving and making for Fishguard, the life-boat found the yacht Benimora with a crew of two. She was drifting and lost in the fog, and the life-boat escorted her to Fishguard harbour. The life-boat reached her station at five o'clock in the morning. Rewards to the crew, £12 10s. ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £3 12s..