LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Advanced search

Iliad

Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 3.40 on the afternoon of the 10th September, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht had capsized near Monkstone Point. At 3.50 the life- boat Henry Comber Brown was launched in a moderate south-easterly breeze and a smooth sea. The tide was flooding.

On reaching the position the coxswain found the three occupants of the yacht Iliad on the rocks near by. They were taken on board the life-boat, which reached her station at five o'clock. The yacht was a total loss..