Can anyone ??

[Captain Kong]

A few photos of Lou here, I have many more of our meetings. in Liverpool and at home in DUNEDIN.

[Doc Vernon]

Came across this Video Clip while searching ,amazing what comes up.
I am so pleased that I managed to get this to add to my list of Memorabilia.
Cheers
Those Pics I uploaded well this is a clip about them.

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I have sent this Link to Penny at Southampton Archives as I am sure if she does not have it ,it will be something to add to the S'oton War Archives!

[Captain Kong]

Excellent, Vernon

[Doc Vernon]

Even more now coming to hand from Penny at Southampton great stuff she is doing!
Cheers
Same Pic but from News Clipping Southern Daily Echo 1945

pow's Southampton Returning 1945.jpg

[Steve Ellis]

Here's another clip from The Hampshire Telegraph. Plenty of other text supporting the photo.BL_0001973_19451012_182.pdf

[j.sabourn]

#25.... that small article about radar and hopes that the shipowner would implement on all their ships is interesting. As believe the admiralty did pay for the built in degaussing on all new buildings up to at least the late 50s and probably into the 60s, so wouldn’t be surprised if the shipowner was reimbursed to a certain extent for any radar put on British merchant ships, maybe unbeknown to the public in general. Anyone know the truth in this matter. Radar when it was first put on British merchant ships to my memory was like a white elephant and most were loath to use it. Today a ship would not go to sea without it, if some had their way. JS

[j.sabourn]

Ref. To the early radar sets on merchant ships. I have a faint recollection that some were on hire from Marconi. In which case. As second mate it wasn’t your responsibility to maintain and used to heave a sigh of relief. When it wasn’t on hire from Marconi the most maintainance ever done on same was to clean the slip rings and change the brushes on the set itself, and check the wave guide for visual damage. Most masters wouldn’t use in any case and was only kept for emergency situations. Was only considered an aid to navigation and probably still is but like all things people. Get dependent on it. Was always considered as an aid to a collision. JWS.

[Captain Kong]

The first RADAR I saw was on the old Franconia, of Cunard.
it had a small 6 inch diameter screen, fixed head up. range 12 miles. must have been one of the Early ones from WW2.

[j.sabourn]

The initial radars were all relative bearings and targets had to be plotted for course speed and nearest approach. The first advance on this was a chinograph pencil whichenabled you ro plot directly on to a special screen on the ppi tube. If you were up with plotting 3 targets at the same time was pushing it. Then came true motion and took most of the work out of the watching for other ships and trying to plot them. Today there are collision alarms and all sorts on the modern radar. Ranges are much longer, I have seen well over a hundred targets around the Singapore straits , and if good visibility preferred to put the radar on stand by and go on the rule of the Road and deal with every. One as. It came up. Old habits die hard. One mans meat is another. Mans poison. JWS

[j.sabourn]

As per title Can Anyone... remember if the Mediterranean Sea is taken from the Greek or the Latin word meaning I think sea in the middle of the land. JWS.