Former trawler is new link with Lundy

This photograph looks down on the deck of the ‘Lundy Gannet’ preparing to make her maiden trip to Lundy as the new link between the mainland and the Island. Before she left on Wednesday’s morning tide the Rev. R.C. Dixon (Vicar of Appledore and Priest-in-charge of Lundy) blessed the vessel on its new mission.

Those in the picture, gathered round the hold from left to right are: Mr Dan Crawford, retired trawler skipper, who brought the craft round from Scarborough; Mr W. Pickett, Customs and Excise Officer at Appledore; Mr Peter M. Lecky, deckhand; Mr Trevor Davey, of Bucks, coxswain of the Clovelly lifeboat, who is the new skipper; Mr Stanley Smith, who manages the Marisco Tavern on Lundy and the Rev. R.C. Dixon.

Gazette article 29 June 1956