PILOT VESSEL AND TANKER IN COLLISION Humber, Yorkshire. At 5.50 on the morning of the 12th January, 1963, the coastguard informed the coxswain superintendent that the pilot vessel /. H.

Fisher and the tanker Esso Glasgow had been in collision. Later a message was received from the Humber Conservancy Board that the pilot vessel was sinking.

The life-boat City of Bradford III was launched at 6.20 in a light north-westerly breeze and a slight sea. It was an hour before high water. The life-boat made for the position, which was a mile and a half south-west of Chequer float, and came up with the Esso Glasgow. The coxswain was told that the pilot vessel was making for the beach. The life-boat went inshore and found two ship's boats with eleven survivors on board from the /. H. Fisher and three empty life-rafts. The pilots would not leave the boats and the life-boat escorted them to Spurn Point. On the way a pilot was put aboard a Russian vessel by the life-boat. The life-boat reached her station at 7.35, and the ten pilots were taken to the homes of the life-boat crew..