Skegness Magazine

A HULL cargo ship, which anchored off  Sea View pullover to pick up fresh vegetables, was the talk of the beach on Tuesday.

Locals with binoculars gathered on the beach to survey the Alice PG, while two crew members were in Skegness looking for potatoes and cabbages.
Little did they know that 23-year-old Mr Richard James, of St Andrew’s Drive, Skegness, was thinking they might be the Russians and another person that they might be sneaking drugs ashore.
“On the other hand,” said Richard, “I thought they had gone for a quick pint. ”
Nevertheless he was worried enough to flag a Panda car and arouse the curiosity of the Skegness police.
A search began for the two sailors who had rowed ashore and Richard and the officer eventually spotted one of the men complete with leggings outside the town’s Post Office.
Questions were asked and papers checked before the sailors could row back to Alice with their carrier bags of fresh vegetables. But as they rowed, their dinghy, which had been watched by the police for safe keeping, they drifted south with the tide and shipmates had to haul them in.
As for the Hull crew, they spent the afternoon lying up waiting for orders from their owners.
They stopped for food just off Sea View pullover, an official anchorage.

Source: Skegness Standard 12th February 1982