Brian did he do it with a plane or a ship? What ship, and what year?
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Brian did he do it with a plane or a ship? What ship, and what year?
It was Richard Branson, owner of Virgin Group of companies.
He was on the Virgin Atlantic Challenger II it was 1986 The bessel was a fast ferry type of vessel. he had a couple of passengers on board to make it legal.
Under the business giant's ownership, the Virgin Atlantic Challenger II took the record for the fastest Atlantic crossing – three days, eight hours and 31 minutes – in 1986. The 72ft vessel was commissioned by Branson for the historic Blue Riband Transatlantic Challenge.
I taking an ESSO tanker round the Scilly isles bound for Ireland when he appeared going very fast on my port bow, . Plotted him on my RADAR and we were on a collsion course, He was the give way vessel.
I called him on VHF and Branson answered, I asked his intentions and he told me who he was and he only had minutes to spare to get the Record.
So I told him to carry on and I would slow down and even stop to let him get ahead, He did and won the Trophy.
I never got a "thank you."
Brian