No day to be at sea

UK readers share their images of yesterday's storm and spring tide combination

Blowing dogs off chains it was across the UK and north France yesterday. Over in France severe conditions caused a trawler to sink while a Dutch-registered ship (ironically called Artemis) was blown up on to a beach off Les Sables d'Olonne. Off the Isle of Wight, tugs were dispatched to rescue a tanker that was drifting...

Along the south coast of the UK the high score wind-wise was just over 90mph at the Needles yesterday while at midday Channel Light vessel was recording gusts of up to 72 knots and off Land's End at 0900, Seven Stones saw gusts of up to 86 knots with the barometer down to an ear popping 965mB.

More photos on page 2....