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Where is it #945 ?
Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 9:47 pm
by marisca
Only one rule - Border Maid ain't allowed in this one.
Taken last Tuesday ....
just before the Kir was served prior to luncheon.
Re: Where is it #945 ?
Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 10:58 pm
by Ocklepoint
56 01 22 N 03 06 42 W
Looking east of south
Re: Where is it #945 ?
Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 11:09 pm
by Fingal
It's visible from my kitchen window...
Re: Where is it #945 ?
Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 11:21 pm
by Ocklepoint
Can't see anything out my window at present
Re: Where is it #945 ?
Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 11:22 pm
by Ocklepoint
And are we not approaching the anniversary of the loss of that fine ship
Re: Where is it #945 ?
Posted: Thu Dec 17, 2009 12:14 pm
by Fingal
Ocklepoint wrote: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?
Re: Where is it #945 ?
Posted: Thu Dec 17, 2009 12:45 pm
by 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
Re: Where is it #945 ?
Posted: Thu Dec 17, 2009 1:02 pm
by Mark
So where is it? What's the ship?
Re: Where is it #945 ?
Posted: Thu Dec 17, 2009 3:02 pm
by 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.
Re: Where is it #945 ?
Posted: Thu Dec 17, 2009 3:05 pm
by Mark
marisca wrote:You've had the Lat/Long
Re: Where is it #945 ?
Posted: Thu Dec 17, 2009 11:05 pm
by Fingal
Ocklepoint wrote: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....