Halcyon Memories
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Dismasting - 1959
Monday 30th October 2006
Taken from the Warsash School Of Navigation Archive, December 1959:
The Halcyon was on the last day of the fourth cruise this season when approaching Spithead in a moderate breeze with all canvas set. The mainmast carried away approximately thirty feet above the deck when the vessel was roughly four miles south of the Nab Tower. The damaged mast and gear was cleared, and the vessel reached her moorings on the Hamble under her own power without assistance and, fortunately, without damage to the vessel or injury to any of the crew.