RESCUE FROM TRAWLER At 5.18 a.m. on i7th March, 1964, the signal station at St. Peter Port informed the honorary secretary that Niton radio had broadcast a "Mayday" for the Bel- gian trawler Oceanic which was sinking in a position 11 miles north-west of Jersey.

The life-boat Euphrosyne Kendal set out at 5.45 in a south-easterly wind of gale force and a very rough sea. The tide was flooding. First indications suggested that the Oceanic was north of Jersey but several broadcasts from the trawler gave the life-boat coxswain the opportunity to use the direction-finding equipment and a position north of Guernsey was confirmed at 6.50. Several other vessels in the vicinity were unable to see anything and local aircraft attempted to help but poor visibility with driving rain made their task very difficult. The Oceanic was found 14 miles north-west by west of Platte Fougere lighthouse and her crew of four were rescued by the life-boat crew. The life-boat suffered no damage and reached her station at noon. The Shipwrecked Mariners Society attended to the survivors when they landed and a message received via Cherbourg and Jersey stated that the trawler had sunk in the early afternoon..