{"id":673949,"date":"2026-01-04T20:05:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T20:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/673949\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T20:05:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T20:05:13","slug":"mother-named-as-victim-of-withernsea-drowning-daughter-still-missing-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/673949\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother named as victim of Withernsea drowning, daughter still missing | UK News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A mother has died and her daughter remains missing after getting into trouble in the sea off the East Yorkshire coast.<\/p>\n<p>Humberside Police have said the body of Sarah Keeling, 45, was pulled from the water in Withernsea on Friday evening, adding that searches are ongoing for her 15-year-old daughter, Grace.<\/p>\n<p>The force previously said Mark Ratcliffe, a member of the public, also died trying to assist with the rescue.<\/p>\n<p>The 67-year-old&#8217;s family <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/man-who-drowned-while-trying-to-save-two-people-from-sea-named-by-family-13490287\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">remembered him as a &#8220;true selfless hero with a heart of gold&#8221;<\/a><\/strong> as they paid tribute on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So many lives are now shattered that you&#8217;re gone,&#8221; they continued. &#8220;You were loved by so many people, and we will all miss you forever.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sdc-article-image__item\" loading=\"lazy\" intrinsicsize=\"768x432\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/skynews-mark-ratcliffe-humberside-police_7126011.png\"   alt=\"Grandfather Mark Ratcliffe was pulled from the sea on Friday. Pic: Humberside Police\" data-testid=\"article-image-image\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        Image:<br \/>\n        Grandfather Mark Ratcliffe was pulled from the sea on Friday. Pic: Humberside Police<\/p>\n<p>Both families continue to be supported by specially trained officers.<\/p>\n<p>Officials were first alerted that three people had got into trouble in the water off the East Yorkshire coast shortly after 3pm on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sdc-article-image__item\" loading=\"lazy\" intrinsicsize=\"768x432\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/skynews-humber-missing-coastguard_7125338.jpg\"   alt=\"Searches have been carried out in 'extremely difficult' conditions. Pic: HM Coastguard \" data-testid=\"article-image-image\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        Image:<br \/>\n        Searches have been carried out in &#8216;extremely difficult&#8217; conditions. Pic: HM Coastguard <\/p>\n<p>A rescue operation involving the local coastguard and RNLI rescue teams, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/topic\/east-yorkshire-7391\/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Yorkshire<\/strong><\/a> Ambulance Service, an air ambulance, Humberside Police and Humberside Fire and Rescue was launched.<\/p>\n<p>The RNLI said the conditions during the search had been &#8220;extremely difficult, with 3m waves, strong winds and very cold air temperatures&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more:<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/more-snow-warnings-issued-as-cold-snap-continues-13490249\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More snow warnings issued<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/man-charged-with-escaping-prison-on-new-year-s-day-as-convicted-murderer-and-other-inmate-remain-at-large-13490342\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Two inmates at large after NYD escape<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Temperatures in the seaside town fell to below freezing over the weekend, with the Met Office predicting a peak of 2C on Saturday, although forecasters said it would feel like -4C.<\/p>\n<p>The bodies of Ms Keeling and Mr Ratcliffe were recovered on Friday evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A mother has died and her daughter remains missing after getting into trouble in the sea off the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":673950,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[748,393,4884,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-673949","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-northern-ireland","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=673949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/673950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}