Dyson Family of Worcestershire
© Jeff Dyson - November 2006
The press report was as follows;
EIGHT Brighton policemen, Corporation beach workers and boatmen formed a 60 ft. Human chain to rescue a Frenchman who went overboard from his yacht today. He was one of four French people who leapt for the shore when their white 24 ft. yacht was beaten on to the beach, opposite Royal Crescent Hotel, Brighton, by heavy rain and a rising tide.
Insp. William Cowan, of Wellington Road police station, said: " Four people were on the yacht, one of them a woman. They are in the Royal Sussex County Hospital recovering." The yacht, flying a blue sail, was first sighted in trouble between the two piers shortly after 6 a.m., about half a mile out.
Insp. Cowan said: " We tried to call out a helicopter, but it was much too rough. So we got quite a few policemen out while the boat was washed up near Peter Pan's Playground.
"They linked up in a human chain, and a young policeman from A Division, P.C. Dyson, got
right in the water. We were all up to our waists at least. P.C. Dyson got hold of the man, who
was wearing a lifejacket, and we pulled him in."
Insp. Cowan was directing the operation with Insp. Richard Clay. While they were in the sea the other two men and the woman, wrapped in oilskins, huddled together on the beach.
GOOD WORK
Said Insp. Cowan after changing his clothes and sending the other officers to clean up: " We were absolutely soaked through to the skin. It was a good piece of work from the officers; they are all pretty good men.”
" We could not find out quite what happened when we were actually on the beach, as the people from the yacht did not speak English. We think they left a North Coast port last night."
A Mr. Bennett, brother-in-law of one of the yachtsmen, went to the Royal Sussex County Hospital from his home in Roseberry Avenue, Worthing. It was not known whether the yacht planned to put in along the coast so that the crew could visit Mr. Bennett.
The rescued people were: Jacques Leger, aged 39, of Villebon au Yvette, Mr. Bennett's relation; Pierre George Lucien Morris Barre, aged 36, of Caen, near Cherbourg; his wife Evelyn, aged about 35; his brother, Jacques Edmund Arthur Omer Barre, aged 39, of Pantin, Paris.
EIGHT Brighton policemen, Corporation beach workers and boatmen formed a 60 ft. Human chain to rescue a Frenchman who went overboard from his yacht today. He was one of four French people who leapt for the shore when their white 24 ft. yacht was beaten on to the beach, opposite Royal Crescent Hotel, Brighton, by heavy rain and a rising tide.
Insp. William Cowan, of Wellington Road police station, said: " Four people were on the yacht, one of them a woman. They are in the Royal Sussex County Hospital recovering." The yacht, flying a blue sail, was first sighted in trouble between the two piers shortly after 6 a.m., about half a mile out.
Insp. Cowan said: " We tried to call out a helicopter, but it was much too rough. So we got quite a few policemen out while the boat was washed up near Peter Pan's Playground.
"They linked up in a human chain, and a young policeman from A Division, P.C. Dyson, got
right in the water. We were all up to our waists at least. P.C. Dyson got hold of the man, who
was wearing a lifejacket, and we pulled him in."
Insp. Cowan was directing the operation with Insp. Richard Clay. While they were in the sea the other two men and the woman, wrapped in oilskins, huddled together on the beach.
GOOD WORK
Said Insp. Cowan after changing his clothes and sending the other officers to clean up: " We were absolutely soaked through to the skin. It was a good piece of work from the officers; they are all pretty good men.”
" We could not find out quite what happened when we were actually on the beach, as the people from the yacht did not speak English. We think they left a North Coast port last night."
A Mr. Bennett, brother-
The rescued people were: Jacques Leger, aged 39, of Villebon au Yvette, Mr. Bennett's relation; Pierre George Lucien Morris Barre, aged 36, of Caen, near Cherbourg; his wife Evelyn, aged about 35; his brother, Jacques Edmund Arthur Omer Barre, aged 39, of Pantin, Paris.