Bay of Biscay

[Des Taff Jenkins]

Hi Richard.
Sent you private mail, odd I couldn't find Quartermaine in the drop down list so sent it to plain Richard which I hope is you as it headed the list, if not will get a curious e-mail from some one else.
Cheers Des

[Doc Vernon]

This is Richard's details Des!
http://www.merchant-navy.net/forum/members/5939.html

[happy daze john in oz]

A region that was at one time in the news almost daily has it would appear disappeared or lost its threat. The Burmuda Triangle was all the go back in the 80's, where is it now?

[Richard Quartermaine]

Hi Richard.
Sent you private mail, odd I couldn't find Quartermaine in the drop down list so sent it to plain Richard which I hope is you as it headed the list, if not will get a curious e-mail from some one else.
Cheers Des

Des,
Just click on this for contact webmaster . this can also be found on my 'Home Page'.
Cheers, Richard

[Ivan Cloherty]

A region that was at one time in the news almost daily has it would appear disappeared or lost its threat. The Burmuda Triangle was all the go back in the 80's, where is it now?

It's gone the way of the Dodo bird, except its whirlpool went round in ever decreasing circles and it disappeared up its own orifice

[j.sabourn]

#53... John it was an equilateral triangle the same as used in Pool or snooker for holding their balls in,( the Synthetic ones ) and some enterprising individual saw the use of and is now on his snooker table in his games room. Cheers JWS

[Colin Wood]

Sounds like the same storm I encountered as 3rd. mate on the Scottish Prince. Every ship we could see , from Liners to fishing vessels were hove to, when Oporto Radio sent out the weather as 'Gentle Zephers'. The shouts of disgust were louder that the wind. Shortly after, an amendment to the weather came through saying gale force winds were imminent.

[John Arton]

One of the worst storms I was in was when I was on 5000 ton chemical tankers running around the U.K. and N. Europe. Coming down from Norway one trip got hammered by a hurricane when we were off the Texel, rolling 30 degrees each side even though we were hove too.
Another area where you could encounter huge seas was at the entrance to the Bristol Channel and at one time in the sailing directions and on the charts of the area there used to be a warning notice regarding the possibility of dangerous seas in the area. My pal on his 5000 ton chemical tanker had the flying bridge wrecked by a sea coming on-board when he was north bound for the Mersey. He wrote to the Admiralty regarding the removal of the warning from the sailing directions and charts, requesting that they re-instated it. Don't think they did though. The abnormal seas would be caused by the seas generated by an Atlantic storm encountering the out-going tidal waters in the Bristol Channel.
rgds
JA

[Brian Charles Williams]

When crossing the North Atlantic light ship we were being battered so much heading West for Newport News that we were taking in water through the prop shaft so the baskets were run up and eventually we ended up in Bermuda for repairs. The longest crossing I had ever experienced going across the pond.
A scary experience but also quite exciting for a young bloke. I was never sea sick before that trip & wasn`t then, just thinking `just hang on & hang on to the life lines when going forard or aft .Now for the `silly bit`......... was as sick as a dog entering Durban with the slightest of swells !!

[Captain Kong]

The Western Ocean in Winter was always Bad,
Here is the Empress of France doing somersaults in December 1956. I climbed the foremast, up the old rigging like a sailing ship, with my old 1930s Kodak Box Camera, had to use two hands to take a photo with those. The accommodation was flooded, Ports all smashed and sea pouring in. No sleep for a week.
Brian