The morning after scene

on Sunday of the wreckage of the ‘Rossekop II’ from which, in a hazardous operation in the darkness of just after midnight, seven adults and three children were winched aboard an RAF helicopter from Chivenor and landed safely ashore.

Receiving a severe pounding in the surf, having gone ashore near the estuary bar, parts of the vessel were later found scattered a considerable distance along Saunton Sands beach.

Gazette article dated 10 November 1972