Glasgow And Ships Of The Clyde

Car ferry GLEN SANNOX rescues a man from the water off Isle of Arran

   The Caledonian Steam Packet car ferry GLEN SANNOX was on passage on her evening trip from Fairlie to Brodick (Isle of Arran)

and was nearing Brodick when a passenger rushed to the bridge telling of seeing a person in distress in the water off Corrie.

   GLEN SANNOX was immediately turned and saw a man wearing

a lifejacket and struggling in the freezing sea.

   A lifeboat was lowered and the man, aged 29 years, was pulled

from the water and brought onto the ship.

   He told of paddling his canoe off Corrie (a small village a few

miles north along the coast from Brodick) and the canoe filled

with water and sank.   He had been some time in the sea and

was suffering from exhaustion and hypothermia (a dangerous

drop in body temperature) and the water, even at that time of

year is very, even bitterly cold.

   When GLEN SANNOX arrived at Brodick the man was taken

ashore and removed by ambulance to the Cottage Hospital at

Lamlash for treatment.