Posted by Peter Ceresole on October 23, 2013 at 14:31:46 user PeterC.
In Reply to: Re: Favourites posted by Roger Wardale on October 23, 2013 at 10:36:55:
[I believe it...] likely that "Wild Cat's" diversion to Cowes was based entirely on the Pilot Book, as his steamer was unlikely to go inside the Wight.
For some reason I had always believed that the passage down channel was based mostly on the 'Channel Pilot'. It would certainly have provided all the technical details of the lights and so forth, and AR was perfectly at home providing the atmosphere.