NAVAL RATING TRIES TO SWIM TO SHIP Weymouth, Dorset. At 12.8 early on the morning of the 8th July, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary medical adviser that a naval rating had decided to swim to his ship H.M.S.

Rothesay, which was in Portland harbour five miles away. He had entered the water at 11.45 that night and nothing had been seen of him since. At 12.15 the life-boat Frank Spiller Locke left her moorings in calm weather and a smooth sea. The tide was ebbing. The life-boat found the naval rating half a mile southeast of Weymouth and took him on board. He was taken to his ship, and the life-boat reached her station at 1.55.

A letter of appreciation was received from the captain of H.M.S. Rothesay..