Carrier recovery with a difference

[Ian Patrick]

Last weekend saw the recovery of a carrier hull that has been marooned on an island in a river for the best part of 50 years. The owner of the carrier told us of it whereabouts and informed us that it had been used as a logging tractor following the war and had been driven onto the island over a timber bridge that had since been washed away. Access to the island was only possible via boat.

The recovery operation commenced by cleaning out the hull of years of leaf litter. It was then dug out of the ground and winched by hand over a distance of about 80m to a suitable launching spot on the river’s edge.