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A Cautionary Tale

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 January 2010

P. R. J. Reynolds
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I Suppose this incident might be entitled ‘How not to find a lightship’. It took place in the 1930s while I was serving in the M.S. Potter, one of the United States Line's long-haul cargo motorships of the period. She was a three-island, fivehatch ship which could lift eight-thousand tons and move it at eleven knots. She was my home for five years and wound up as part of a breakwater at the Normandy beachhead.

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The Journal of Navigation , Volume 26 , Issue 2 , April 1973 , pp. 245 - 247
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Navigation 1973