May 05, 1954 - The Alveena Saga Ends With A Sailor's Tribute - Magnificent! Hundreds...

May 05, 1954 - The Alveena Saga Ends With A Sailor's Tribute - Magnificent! Hundreds of Breton fishermen gathered on the stone jetty at the little harbour of Concarnean, France, yesterday, to acknowledge the courage and seamanship of two men and a woman from Britain. They watched 31-year old Cowes boat builder, Mr. Wallace Clark, step ashore with Mr. and Mrs. Norman Hunter from the 35 ft. yacht Alveena, which had tossed helplessly at the whim of Atlantic storms for 60 hours. They heard one of the three any:” We shall sail her back alone on Friday”. Then from M. Louie Peron, certain of the French trawler L'Amazone, which towed the Alveena to safety, the Bretons heard:” After what they have been through this is magnificent. For those 60 hours the Alveena had been drifting helplessly, her rudder broken, her engine out of action, and her radio ruined by salt water. Mr. Peron first sighted the yacht, apparently deserted, 29 miles off the Scillies on Tuesday morning. A storm was raging. Then came the rescue. The L'Amazon, protected from the waves by bulk of the Liberian steamer Olympic Hill, edged close and threw a line aboard. And as the yacht was towed past the Olympic Hill, Mrs. Hunter held to a chart hearing a lip-sticked request for the captain to telephone an” all's well” message to Mr. Clark's brother in Cowes