Fishguard, Pembrokeshire - At 8.20 p.m. on 4th August, 1966, a body was seen drifting off Cat rock in Newport bay.

At 8.35 the life-boat Howard Marryat was launched one hour before high water.

There was a fresh south westerly wind with a choppy sea. The body was recovered and handed over to the police.

The body was of the man missing from a capsized dinghy, for which the life-boat and two helicopters had searched on 26th July, 1966. The life-boat arrived back at her station at 10.35..