A contemporaneous report by the United States Coast Guard can be found towards the bottom of: You need Acrobat reader to open and read it.
November 2001: I am taking the unusual step of "leaking" an article by Jim Layton from the latest TEES PACKET (journal of the Teesside Ship Society/Teesside Branch of the World Ship Society) for November 2001 before it has even been fully distributed to members and subscribers.
I have to ask myself, can it really be 50 years? But yes, it is, and my memory goes back that length of time to events as they felt to a young boy just a few weeks over 6 years of age which I still firmly believe played their part in my interest in ships starting within the next 10 years.
Spellbound, yes I was! Captivated and enthralled would also have been accurate. The front page headlines, full-page spreads, and photographs, of the newspapers of the day still form an impression in my memory.
Now let Jim remind us of the story.
On only one point do I beg to differ. At the end Jim comments that by the early 1990s Captain Carlsen and the FLYING ENTERPRISE were long forgotten. No, this is one middle-aged ship enthusiast who has not forgotten!
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