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SCARBOROUGH, Thursday June 11, 1987: Scarborough's 37ft Oakley class lifeboat Amelia searches with the station's D class inflatable boat for a 13-year-old Grimsby schoolboy, swept from the Royal Albert Drive slipway by a large wave into rough seas at North Bay. The search lasted for more than three hours and also involved a helicopter from RAF Leconfield, police and auxiliary coastguard shore parties, but no trace of the boy was found. Jonathon Riley was with a party of 26 schoolchildren and five teachers from Havelock School, Grimsby, on an educational visit to Scarborough, when he disappeared. photograph by courtesy o/Scarborough Evening News.