Alme
CAULIFLOWER JETTISONED FROM DUTCH VESSEL St. Helier, Jersey. At 8.50 on the evening of the 24th January, 1962, the harbour office informed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel A Ime of Rotterdam was asking for immediate help as her deck cargo of cauliflower had shifted and she was listing dangerously to starboard. Her position was three miles west of Corbiere. The life-boat Elizabeth Rippon left her moorings at 9.6 in a southwesterly wind of near gale force and a rough sea. It was high water. The life-boat reached the position given and went alongside the Alme. The coxswain used parachute flares to light up the deck so that the work of jettisoning the cargo could be safely carried out. When this had been done the vessel righted, and after the master had thanked the coxswain for standing by, the Alme continued on her passage to Portsmouth. The life-boat returned to her station, arriving at 1.30 in the morning..