Where is it #945 ?

[marisca]

Only one rule - Border Maid ain't allowed in this one.

Taken last Tuesday ....


just before the Kir was served prior to luncheon.

[Ocklepoint]

56 01 22 N 03 06 42 W

Looking east of south

[Fingal]

It's visible from my kitchen window...

[Ocklepoint]

Can't see anything out my window at present

[Ocklepoint]

And are we not approaching the anniversary of the loss of that fine ship

[Fingal]

And are we not approaching the anniversary of the loss of that fine ship

Indeed we are, 30 years, doesn't time fly? Perhaps we shouldhave a pairty?

[Ocklepoint]

Which version of the Chris Rea song were they singing?

"Driving home for Christmas" or "Driving home for New Year"

That passage, the South Channel/Narrow Deep is well buoyed now, I wonder what it was like 30 years ago

Pairty, Christmas starts Tuesday mid day

[Mark]

So where is it? What's the ship?

[marisca]

You've had the Lat/Long - should have banned Ocklepoint as well as Border Maid (for all the good that did).

Ship is the Fishery Protection Vessel Switha that hit the rocks SE of Inchkeith in the Forth on 31st January 1980 in a snowstorm and was then blown up later that year.

[Mark]

You've had the Lat/Long

[Fingal]

Which version of the Chris Rea song were they singing?

"Driving home for Christmas" or "Driving home for New Year"

That passage, the South Channel/Narrow Deep is well buoyed now, I wonder what it was like 30 years ago

Pairty, Christmas starts Tuesday mid day

My copy of Admiralty chart No. 114B Fisherrow to Port Edgar (corrected to end of 1963) shows a lit Stbd hand buoy with a whistle in the same position as at present, and a lit Pt hand buoy at North Craig, much closer to the hazard than the modern equivalent. It was however a dark and stormy night....