NIGHT SEARCH FOR MOTOR BOAT Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. At 11.45 p.m. on Thursday the 8th of August, 1963, the Nells Point coastguard told the honorary secretary that the Ghanaian ship Tano River had reported sighting a small craft sending distress signals by lamp a mile from Sand Point off Middle Hope. The life-boat Calouste Gulbenkian was launched at 12.8 in a strong north-westerly wind and moderate sea. It was two hours after high water. The life-boat searched for the motor boat all night with the help of parachute flares without success. At daylight they found the motor boat Osprey of Cardiff; took the crew of two on board and returned with the motor boat in tow at seven o'clock in the morning..