Fremad Rescue - Barbados 1974

 

While anchored off the yacht club in Bridgetown, Barbados one afternoon, we were notified by the crew of a passing sloop, that another Baltic Trader - Fremad, hailing from London, was drifting out to sea and had signaled for assistance. Her engine would not start she was not able to sail very effectively to windward and she desperately needed a tow. Apparently, her anchor line had parted sometime during the previous evening and the ship had begun to drift slowly out on the tide and was now five to six miles offshore.  With a very limited Klaraborg crew, we raised the hook, fired up our trusty GM 371 engine and motored out to rescue the crew of Fremad. This is what it looked like. Ove Linner at the helm, our Swedish flag flying jauntily in the breeze as we towed Fremad back to safe harbor.