Posted by Peter Ceresole on February 28, 2010 at 17:58:11 user PeterC.
In Reply to: Re: PM review on Amazon posted by Peter Ceresole on February 28, 2010 at 17:13:20:
Actually, between the fact that the Pommern called at Ipswich in 1936, and the Bawdsey towers were erected around then, AR must have done his recce about '36, and seen both.
So your square rig anorakery and my radar anorakery seem to say 1936. Certainly no earlier. Which makes the rest of of the normally estimated time scales kind of wonky, when you think that SD nails itself firmly to August 11th, 1931.
That is, provided we are being truly anoraky.
Hmmmm. Good fun. But does it matter? I repeat; I don't think that AR gave a jot. After all, the '30s were full of tensions of which I'm sure the naval Walkers would have been aware, yet apart from their father being called to the Admiralty before his Shotley posting, the world outside the children's activities hardly impinges at all. There is the moment at the cairn in SD when they find the tin with Bob Blackett's signature ('He was father' in a queer voice) and I remember that we've discussed the significance of that here- did he die after the war of 'flu, or in the war itself? But AR leaves us no clues and seems not to have cared about the context. If he didn't care about it, should we?