Posted by Andrew Craig-Bennett on September 28, 2007 at 23:58:25 from 195.93.21.2 user ACB.
I fear this may be a bit anorak-ish, but it has just struck me that when the "GOBLIN" sails from Pin Mill she passes an Argentine steamer discharging grain into barges on the Butterman's bay buoys.
Approaching Harwich on the return from Flushing, three days later, she meets the barque "POMMERN", of Gustav Erikson's fleet, being towed to sea in ballast - having just completed discharging her cargo of grain.
She would have lain on the Butterman's Bay buoys to do that, and she would have needed more than three days to do it.