{"id":352245,"date":"2026-01-04T20:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T20:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/352245\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T20:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T20:39:08","slug":"mother-named-as-victim-of-withernsea-drowning-daughter-still-missing-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/352245\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother named as victim of Withernsea drowning, daughter still missing | UK News"},"content":{"rendered":"

A mother has died and her daughter remains missing after getting into trouble in the sea off the East Yorkshire coast.<\/p>\n

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

The force previously said Mark Ratcliffe, a member of the public, also died trying to assist with the rescue.<\/p>\n

The 67-year-old’s family remembered him as a “true selfless hero with a heart of gold”<\/a> as they paid tribute on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n

“So many lives are now shattered that you’re gone,” they continued. “You were loved by so many people, and we will all miss you forever.”<\/p>\n

\"Grandfather<\/p>\n

Image:
\n Grandfather Mark Ratcliffe was pulled from the sea on Friday. Pic: Humberside Police<\/p>\n

Both families continue to be supported by specially trained officers.<\/p>\n

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

\"Searches<\/p>\n

Image:
\n Searches have been carried out in ‘extremely difficult’ conditions. Pic: HM Coastguard <\/p>\n

A rescue operation involving the local coastguard and RNLI rescue teams, Yorkshire<\/a> Ambulance Service, an air ambulance, Humberside Police and Humberside Fire and Rescue was launched.<\/p>\n

The RNLI said the conditions during the search had been “extremely difficult, with 3m waves, strong winds and very cold air temperatures”.<\/p>\n

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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

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…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":352246,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-352245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}