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Jenesta

Plymouth, Devon - At 8.50 p.m. on 16th April, 1966, the naval authorities informed the honorary secretary that a red distress signal had been sighted due east of Penlee, near Renny Rocks. It was confirmed that the casualty was a yacht, and the life-boat Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse left her moorings at 9.5. in a moderate east-north-easterly wind and a moderate sea. The yacht jfenesta, which had had engine failure and had become becalmed, was reached at 9.30. The crew asked to be towed in, so a line was passed to her and the life-boat towed her to Millbay Docks. The life-boat returned to her station at 10.35..