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HELICOPTER AND BOATS SEARCH FOR SURVIVORS Fleetwood, Lancashire. At 3.25 p.m.

on Saturday the 14th September, 1963, the honorary secretary was told by the coastguard that the ship Collena had reported that the yacht Tanera had overturned off Wyre Light. The Collena had picked up two survivors but there were still three people missing. Most of the regular life-boat officers and crew were at sea when the life-boat City of Bradford II, on temporary duty at the station, put out at 3.40. The life-boat picked up the bowman from a yacht and started searching. The Collena, and later three pleasure boats manned by some regular members of the life-boat crew, also helped in the search. It was low water with a smooth sea and a moderate breeze from the west, A helicopter from Anglesey also joined the search, which was abandoned at dusk as, the missing people were without life-jackets. The two survivors were transferred to the life-boat from the Collena and the lifeboat returned to her station at 8.10 in the evening..