Owned neg with copyright

Completed 1960
Subsequent History:
73 BETEIGEUZE

Disposal Data:
fire 45nm NNW Trevose Head 8.9.70 & made into an inland-waterways sand carrier 1973

Details of fire from HMS Cavalier website

HMS Cavalier was with the Aircraft Carrier HMS Ark Royal in early September 1970 when she intercepted an SOS during night exercises. In a very heavy storm in the Bristol Channel a Scottish coaster, Saint Brandan, was on fire. The crew had been taken off by a French trawler and the vessel abandoned, apparently about to sink. However, the ship stayed afloat and after standing by for 36 hours, still in heavy weather and with the derelict coaster nearing the rocky Welsh coast, HMS Cavalier succeeded in putting a boarding party on board and secured a towing hawser. The two ships made slow progress away from immediate danger and finally reached safety at Milford Haven 52 hours after the original SOS. For the remarkable seamanship displayed in this operation the ship's company of HMS Cavalier later found themselves with a £11,000 salvage award for their troubles!