Hi Shipmates,

I have read the comments on this thread with interest. Although the product of another age, I confess that the wonders of modern technology never cease to amaze me. Living here in Oz I was not able to view the T.V. programme referred to, but, hopefully, it will be available to us in the near future.

By strange coincidence, I have recently contemplated posting on site an account of my time spent in the Baltic Sea on the run up to Leningrad during the winter of 1963-4 (hopefully, I will do so at some time in the future). I mention this simply because my tale does include a close-up encounter with the Russian ice-breaker 'Lenin'. If, as Dennis W.suspects, the ice-breaker referred to in the T.V. programme is the 'Lenin', I offer the following snippet of information. The 'Lenin'was built in 1957 and was, in fact, the world's first atomic-powered surface vessel, preceding the U.S. vessel 'Savannah'. Privileged to see her in action I was in total awe, but, as with all things, her capabilities have since been rendered obselete.

................regards, Roger.