SEARCH FOR SEAMAN At 2 p.m. on loth June, 1964, the coastguard asked 'the honorary secretary if the life-boat would launch to search for a seaman who was missing from the Belgian trawler Zeebrugge 476 which had sunk at 9.20 a.m. two miles north-east of the Inner Dowsing lightvessel. The trawler had a crew of three, and two men had been rescued by a sister ship. The lifeboat Charles Fred Grantham was launched at 2.15 in a light northerly breeze and a slight sea. It was IJ hours after low water.

Assisted by a helicopter and a Shackleton aircraft, the life-boat searched until 7 p.m.

when the helicopter returned to base. The life-boat, the Shackleton and a fishing vessel continued for a further two hours but found nothing. The life-boat returned to her station at 8 p.m..