CANOE CAPSIZED Boulmer, Northumberland. At 4.55 p.m. on 3 ist May, 1964, an Alnmouth resident told the honorary secretary that a canoe appeared to be in difficulty at the mouth of the River Aln. Shortly afterwards the canoe, which had aboard two occupants, capsized and the life-boat Robert and Dorothy Hardcastle was launched at 5.13. There was a light north-north-easterly wind, a moderate sea, and a flooding tide. A R.A.F. helicopter from Acklington rescued the men before the life-boat reached the river mouth, and the life-boat returned to her station at 6 p.m. The local coble Girl Joan also put out..