Bottle News.

[John Albert Evans]

Yesterday I read an article in the paper about a little girl who wrote a note to her Grandma who lives in the Channel Islands and she put it in a bottle which threw it into the English Channel at Bournmouth.
Five months later the same little girl received a letter from a lady living in Adalaide, Australia who had picked up her bottle on her local beach. It had travelled 10000. miles in 150 days thats about 66 miles per day, not bad for something without a sail or engine.

QUESTION.

Don't be shy now and OWN UP now, how many of you old sea dogs have put a mesage in a bottle and thrown it into the sea anywhere in the world. I have. I never got a reply but did you.

John

[Captain Kong]

I did it once on my way to the Cape on the Dunedin Star in 1956, south of the equator. No answers. YET,
Brian.

[cappy]

i may be wrong but find it very very hard to believe the bottle could have gone that far in that time
some of runcimans and hains could hardly go that fast lol perhaps some navigator could confirm
sorry to see kong only did it once what a shame with all those lovely ladies all over the world
regards cappy from shields

[Tony Morcom]

I have to say that I agree with you Cappy. If it had been picked up on the East Coast USA it would be more believable. I think that the paper got its facts wrong sorry to say John. Mind you its a nice little story. We used to live right by the beach in West Sussex and often threw bottles into the sea. We never got a reply and sad to say never found one that had been sent from else where.

[John Albert Evans]

Lighten up gentlemen I find it hard to believe myself, all that distance in such a short time (66miles per day) but I thought I would put it on here and it would be a bit of light banter to find out if anyone of here had done it, the message in a bottle thing, I bet 95%+ have but are to shy to admit it.

John

[cappy]

i can only claim that american 5th amendment on that one lol cappy

[Chris Allman]

John, I remember putting a message in a sugar cane brandy bottle, the contents of which I had recently consumed and chucking it in the Caribbean Sea off Barbados where I had bought it. What I wrote on the message I cannot remember having been well oiled at the time, which probably accounts for the fact that I never received a reply.

Chris.

[Peter Trodden]

Well Lads, I am the first success story ('till now) "Newfoundland" May '65 After departing Liverpool and stowing the mooring ropes down no/1 hatch, quite a few bottles of export Scotch came up with us. Every night on passage to St John's me and my 2 Bootle ship mates would have 1 or 3 nips. When the Bottle was empty we would put our names,addresses on note paper,then toss it over the wall. This is were it gets a bit Fuzzy, we did 2 trips in Her and empty bottles followed our wake. Nov,65 I payed off an Iron Ore Boat and at home was a letter for me. It was from a girl in Newtownards who said she visits her Grandma at weekends at her home in Donaghadee, and one day walking along the beach found a bottle. The thing is, whitch bottle on whitch night fetched up on that beach in Northern Ireland.
ttfn.Peter.

[happy daze john in oz]

I have put a number of bottles into the sea with messages but to date no takers. As to the first story, that rate is far faster than the Post can do, and without a stamp on it.

[Gulliver]

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