Re: caroline
Posted by Captain Pugwash on April 4, 2018, 9:14 am, in reply to "
Re: caroline"
Well said Mark. All this this "he-said, she-said" about events in the now distant past is ridiculous, pathetic even. One thing that has always puzzled me about the grounding though. I wonder if anyone on board the Ross Revenge on the night she lost her anchor and ended up on the Goodwin Sands regrets going to bed instead of keeping an anchor-watch (basic seamanship) during an extremely bad gale. To remain asleep during the 15 mile drift when the Ross would have been tossing around in a very unusual manner, not hear the noise of a helicopter overhead and only waking up after she actually made contact with the sandbank takes a special kind of stupidity. It was only luck people did not die that night. Personally as a practical seaman, I'd be ashamed of myself, even to this day. Perhaps blaming Peter Moore for everything that's happened since is an attempt to distract from the shame of that stupidity when it really mattered.
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