Fleetwood Mac

[Lewis McColl]

Hard to believe coming up to 50 years since this was released, not quite nautical theme but I am sure many of us have stood and admire these graceful creatures.

https://youtu.be/fXeKi6ZkbOw

[Bengy Roberts]

Hard to believe coming up to 50 years since this was released, not quite nautical theme but I am sure many of us have stood and admire these graceful creatures.

https://youtu.be/fXeKi6ZkbOw

Times FLOWN by BENGY

[Jim Dixon]

Thought on first sight that this was a nautical attempt with Mac Fisheries out of Fleetwood

[Lewis McColl]

Good one Jim, Had one once landed on the boat deck and it made it's way to the wing of the bridge. Really bad weather so was sheltering, the watchman kept it well fed. To get it airbourne again was interesting,3rd mate tried to catch it, nearly took his finger off. Watchman caught it. He threw a blanket over it and managed to get it on the bridge wing rail removed the balnket and jumped over the side last minute opened it's wings and away it went.

[Keith at Tregenna]

LUEN, Chief Officer, JAMES EDWARD, S.S. Harlingen (London). Merchant Navy. 25th November 1939. Age 43. Son of Albert Edward and Rebecca Luen; husband of Violet Victoria Luen, of Barry, Glamorgan. Father of Mary and June. Commemorated at Tower Hill Memorial, Panel 55.

At one time Jim cared for an albatross that landed on deck suffering from exhaustion, but recovered. There is a campaign to save the Albatross, spear headed by an Ellen MacCarthy. So impressed with his kind act, they asked permission to use the photograph in a brochure.

The link below to a PDF includes a picture of Jim Luen, taken off the Straits of Magellan off Cape Horn. 1939 on board the Harlingen. It must have been a short period before he was washed over board. The albatross had a wing span of 18 foot.

http://www.ss-tregenna.co.uk/Pdf/BDH%20JIM.pdf

[happy daze john in oz]

Hard to believe coming up to 50 years since this was released, not quite nautical theme but I am sure many of us have stood and admire these graceful creatures.

https://youtu.be/fXeKi6ZkbOw

I thought that was where Kong goes for his holidays??

[Doc Vernon]

Interesting PDF File thanks Keith
Cheers

[Doc Vernon]

Fleetwood Mac another great Band from that era!
Enjoy
https://www.pastemagazine.com/blogs/...-all-time.html

[Captain Kong]

I was on the SUEVIC 1955, on the Monkey Island Look out, weather atrocious, a huge Storm, going through the BASS STRAIT and in the darkness a flash of light as an Albaross shot past the fore mast and hit me, I did four somersaults and there was a clang as it hit the funnel, the Albatross was dead on the after deck, ten foot wing span. it had been carried away by the wind speed , I was black and blue ALL Over and had to go to hospital in Sydney, with a dislocated should, a few inches higher it would have removed my head,
Brian

[John Arton]

I was always told that as a seafarer it was bad luck to capture and kill an Albatross. Yet when transcribing the diary of an 18 year old women's diary (its on the site somewhere) voyage from Swansea to Frisco on a sailing vessel in 1878, she regularly records catching (and eating) Albatross.
rgds
J.A.