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Highlander

ESCORT FOR YACHT REPORTED DRIFTING Barry Dock, Glamorganshire. At 10.50 on the morning of the 24th March, 1962, the coastguard at Nell's Point informed the honorary secretary that a message had been received from the Flatholm lighthouse that a small half-decked yacht, which had left Flatholm for Cardiff, appeared to be drifting down channel with engine trouble on the ebb tide. The coastguard could see the yacht two miles south of the look-out. The life-boat Rachel and Mary Evans was launched at 11.4 in a gentle easterly breeze and a smooth sea. She found the yacht Highlander, whose crew of three informed the coxswain that their water pump had broken down but that the fault had been repaired. The life-boat escorted the yacht into Barry Dock and reached her station at 12.15..