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Dave Fleming
08-17-2003, 03:20 PM
Sunken Lightship (http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/17/nyregion/17FEAT.html)

[ 08-17-2003, 03:21 PM: Message edited by: Dave Fleming ]
NormMessinger
08-17-2003, 03:31 PM
That's some story.
Dave Fleming
08-17-2003, 04:12 PM
Funny thing too Norm aka O&O Midwest, that is not to far from where the Tale, The Boat On The Brooklyn Pier takes place.
oldriverat
08-17-2003, 09:56 PM
I don't like comin up here too much cuz the folks up here just ain't very nice, ya folla? :D Just thought I'd stick my head in and say hey to old man Fleming. Hey old man. smile.gif
Dave Fleming
08-17-2003, 10:27 PM
O&O Wannabee, just go back to the stimulation of the bilge and start making your OAK mast.
Bhwaaahhwaa!!!!!!!
oldriverat
08-17-2003, 10:43 PM
See wud I mean? They just ain't very nice. tongue.gif
On Vacation
08-17-2003, 10:56 PM
Originally posted by Memphis Mike:
See wud I mean? They just ain't very nice. tongue.gif These folks won't even let me see the story.
Dave Fleming
08-17-2003, 11:43 PM
These folks won't even let me see the story Geeze, fellas I have been a subscriber to the NYTimes site for over 6 years and to the best of my recollection received NOTHING from signing up.
No spam, no adverts, no whatevers, just the news ma'am, as the NYT sees it of course.
O&O East is a less than entheusiastic(sp) reader too. It does lean periously to one side of the political spectrum but, that doesn't bother this ***apolitical*** child at all.

So ya takes yer chance and sees what ya gets, folla?
JimConlin
08-19-2003, 01:17 AM
The other bummer to being stationed on a lightship was that every now and then, they'd be hit by large ships which had homed too accurately on the lightship's horn or radiobeacon. Not a comforting idea.
Andrew Craig-Bennett
08-19-2003, 07:24 AM
British lighthouse crews used to get twopence an hour extra in fog, because they had to live with the earsplitting din of the fog signal.

One of ours sank in very different circumstances. In the night of November 27th 1953 the South Goodwin light ship parted her cable in a severe storm. She was located by the Dover lifeboat the next morning, on her beam ends on the sands she had been marking; the crew of seven were dead. The affair is a bit of a mystery because she did not drop her reserve anchor; the weather was truly dreadful at the time.
MJC
09-22-2003, 06:52 PM
Two things you don't do with/to former lightship crewmen:

1. don't play any kind of cards with them.

2. don't serve them fish for dinner.