The small New Haven freight boat Eleanor Peck, leaving her pier, No. 25 East River; the Fulton ferryboat Somerset, and the tugboat A. Young, with a canalboat in tow, got into a tangle at 8 o'clock ...

"It's a bit of a drama already." Fellow florist Marc Simon, who owns Floralies in St Helier, said he relied on a freight boat every morning to deliver fresh flowers from the Netherlands.