Re: The Untold Stories - Re: When did Swallow get swamped?


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Posted by Laurence Monkhouse on January 14, 2007 at 07:38:35 from 80.3.128.6 user Laurence_.

In Reply to: The Untold Stories - Re: When did Swallow get swamped? posted by Ed Kiser on January 13, 2007 at 18:57:41:

One event that is totally undocumented is that time between WD and SW. We are led to believe that the time between these two stories is very brief, perhaps taking place almost immediately. In WD, John lost Jim's anchor. Yet in SW, the Goblin was once again outfitted with an anchor that was not referred to as the kedge anchor, so it seems that an official anchor was once again on board. It is not defined as to whether it was a newly purchased one to replace the old one, or whether by dredging they were able to recover the lost one. Wondered where that anchor came from...

I don't see a great problem with this. Daddy was the newly appointed Commander (Executive Officer) of the great Royal Naval Rating training school at Shotley (HMS Ganges) and was clearly on close and friendly terms with the Captain. Recovery of a lost anchor would have been just the sort of 'training exercise' which could have been set in motion at a moment's notice - a quick order to a Chief Petty Officer Instructor and the job would have been done in a couple of hours. It would have been a very good training exercise too.

There was, anyway, a period of time between the actions of the two books. On the day that the Goblin drifted out to sea high water was about 1400 hours (WD Chap VII) On the day that they sailed to Secret Water high water was about 1415 (SW Chap II). The time of high tide is a little under an hour later each day, and so repeats itself every fortnight (very generally speaking), so that the voyage to Secret Water must have taken place exactly fourteen days after they drifted out to sea, twelve days after their return. Plenty of time to recover the anchor.




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