SEARCHED IN VAIN Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. At 7.50 a.m. on 20th June, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the Weston police had reported that an elderly man was missing from a small fishing ketch somewhere between Avonmouth and Portishead, and the life-boat's aid was requested. At 8.20 the life-boat Calouste Gulbenkian was launched. The tide was approaching low water, the sea was choppy and there was a moderate breeze. After a fruitless search in company with a helicopter, the life-boat was recalled and at 11.35 sne returned to her station..