FOUR SHIPS AND AIRCRAFT SEARCH FOR BOY St. Peter Port, Guernsey. At 1.34 on the morning of Thursday the 22nd August, 1963, a message was received from the signal station that the Alderney harbourmaster had reported that a boy was missing in a dinghy from the yacht Rona. He had last been seen at nine o'clock the previous evening. It was thought that he had been blown out of the harbour and was drifting off Alderney.

It was decided to make a search at daybreak. At five o'clock the life-boat Euphrosyne Kendalwa.s launched and in a moderate westerly windandmoderatesea made a wide search. It was low water.

An aircraft, a naval vessel, the Rona and another yacht also searched, but the boy was found by another boat four miles north-west by north of Cap le Hague.

The life-boat was recalled to her station, but when she was one mile north of Alderney she came up with the Rona towing the yacht Theodore. At the request of the Rona the life-boat escorted them to Alderney after which she returned to her station, arriving at 4.25 in the afternoon..