Posted by Laurence Monkhouse on January 21, 2007 at 22:19:59 from 80.3.128.6 user Laurence_.
In Reply to: Re: The Untold Stories - Re: When did Swallow get swamped? posted by Alan Hakim on January 21, 2007 at 17:43:26:
This all fits.
The fortnight between WD and SW is the clincher. We can debate the plumbing at Beckfoot as freely as we like, but the tides are explicitly stated in both books and are a fundamental fact of nature.
If somebody could look in the archives and find the Nautical Almanach for 1932 (or 1931) they could check the tide tables and find out the exact dates on which these events happened.