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Sheba III

NO STEERING Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 11.35 a.m. on yth July, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the cabin cruiser Sheba HI was secured to the Helwick lightvessel and was unable to steer because of rudder trouble. The tide had been rising for an hour and it was blowing a near gale from the south-west with a very rough sea. At 11.44 the lifeboat Henry Comber Brown was launched, reaching the cabin cruiser at 1.39 p.m.

A member of the life-boat's crew helped the two members of her crew to bring her under control and she was taken in tow.

At 4.50 they reached the harbour..