TWO CANOEISTS DROWN Barry Dock, Glamorganshire. At 5.16 on the afternoon of Friday the 23rd August, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a man at Penarth had reported to the police that three men in two canoes appeared to be in difficulties between Penarth and Flatholm.

The coastguard sent a man to investigate and later reported that the men were in fact in difficulties. The honorary secretary ordered the life-boat Edmund and Mary Robinson, on temporary duty at the station, to be launched at 5.42 p.m. He also informed the Cardiff pilot boat which rendered assistance. A helicopter also helped in the search. It was the first hour of the flood with a strong breeze from the south-west and rough seas. At 6.20 the life-boat found a man in the sea and asked the helicopter to pick him up and take him to hospital. The man was found to be dead on arrival. A small boat found another man but there was no trace of the third. The life-boat searched until nightfall and returned to her station at 10.10 p.m..