Possible Clues:

• Number for a hospital on channel island saved us from 1 down, as it were
• Rescue vessel in drama circling a small island
• Antediluvian enterprise
• This got too, too loaded, perhaps
• Bore a beastly burden on board
• Old Testament boat
• Could a beastly car go in there
• Hank's oar operating old boat
• Bible boat
• Old ship close to Cuba in drama north of island