Archive help needed!

[ronsurf]

I'm not sure if this is in the right place, so I'll move it if need be:

I'm trying to find a source of archive newspapers from the 1960's. My gf's father was telling me a story about when the yacht he was sailing was run down in the middle of the night by a massive Russian freighter in (he says) 1967. The event caused a hullaballo as the ship had no watch, and a cleaner happened to see the flare and alerted the crew. The freighter turned around and rescued the sinking yacht and took it back to Dover where it was repaired (to a much higher spec!) by the Russian Government. The captain of the freighter is still probably working in the salt mines in Siberia.

Anyway, the story was on the front page of the 'Daily Herald' and I'd love to find him a copy, even an electronic one. Does anyone know where there may be a UK newspaper archive?

I've looked on Wikipedia which says the Daily Herald ran until 1964, when it became The Sun. So either he got the year or the paper wrong. I suspect the year is mis remembered....

Any help or pointers welcomed!

 

[prv]

When I still had access to Warwick University's library subscriptions, I used to often use the Times's searchable online archive. If you can get at this (maybe a large public library?) then you might be able to nail down the year and a few more details, assuming they published at least a small story at the same time as the Herald's front-page spread.

Pete

 

[philld]

I'd start here The British Newspaper Archive. If that fails then I'd contact the British Library http://www.bl.uk/.

Cheers
Phil

 

[Spirit of Glenans]

This event might well have also been reported in the contemporary issue of Yachting Monthly. Perhaps they have an archive.