tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27287644953954899142024-03-16T01:11:09.340+00:00Dave Perry's logbookDavid Perryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08820865982786898527noreply@blogger.comBlogger149125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2728764495395489914.post-60246955322789106732024-02-21T14:56:00.002+00:002024-02-21T14:56:54.933+00:00Inscribed Stone Boulby Cliffs<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjww7m6MCrS6Fpmi4LKVI8LR5s3jXYzb-No8XSh14IKPo9GNB8DSlY5jPd5tW9_MhaHazOiMBUI9gtejLLBDzEKabGKN7WpRVg8mzV2aB7rTR2B_mrxNL0gpWTZVwn7EuIWLRgOmRRcF3AAcdn_kEhF8BVk-KPY3-mKV1Y0uAB4g0kay9dRREw8iwkAjhI/s758/410951547_1006107810488834_3948141426546763422_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="758" height="254" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjww7m6MCrS6Fpmi4LKVI8LR5s3jXYzb-No8XSh14IKPo9GNB8DSlY5jPd5tW9_MhaHazOiMBUI9gtejLLBDzEKabGKN7WpRVg8mzV2aB7rTR2B_mrxNL0gpWTZVwn7EuIWLRgOmRRcF3AAcdn_kEhF8BVk-KPY3-mKV1Y0uAB4g0kay9dRREw8iwkAjhI/w400-h254/410951547_1006107810488834_3948141426546763422_n.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;">There are probably hundreds of memorial stones scattered around our national park. Most commemorate the death of someone on or near that particular spot. There are far fewer stones consisting of a verse to a loved one. Here's quite a lengthy one and is situated at the top of Boulby Cliff and can be seen by anyone walking the cliff top footpath.</span></div><p></p><div style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;">For the full story (<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a class="x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x1ejq31n xd10rxx x1sy0etr x17r0tee x972fbf xcfux6l x1qhh985 xm0m39n x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz xt0b8zv x1fey0fg" href="https://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/man-chiselled-words-love-cliff-15323913?fbclid=IwAR3Aw9NkeDdLb9oqMEnAbcjfpSb2POvECrHOycHYIBIHHnFf0XqCRYdeIgk" rel="nofollow noreferrer" role="link" style="border-style: none; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--blue-link); cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">https://www.gazettelive.co.uk/.../man-chiselled-words...</a></span>)</div>David Perryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08820865982786898527noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2728764495395489914.post-55401803777268551782023-07-19T19:32:00.005+01:002023-10-10T07:22:38.887+01:00Morse Code as a Language ?<p> </p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">At its very basic, morse is a way of representing alphabets containing letters, numbers and some punctuation by dots & dashes which can be read or understood by visual or audio methods. Its a way of representing letters by sound. Learning to write the alphabet is not learning a new language - it simply represents the letters in a language you already know.</span><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">People will some times claim that a message sent in morse such as:-</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">"GM OM, TKS FOR RPRT FB UR RST 559 OP IS FRED FRED ES QTH IS LONDON HW CPY?" is universally understood and thus is a distinct language of its own. However all these abbreviated words are based on English words which have been abbreviated. The order in which they have been sent is also based on the English language. Yes, most hams around the world will understand what is being sent in the above language for the simple reason they have learned what words they represent and the what they mean.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The grammar used to convey meaning is in the depends on the language being used - not the method of communicating it. Send morse in Arabic and you are using Arabic words & grammar. Send morse in English and you're using words & English Grammar. Likewise a Swedish & English operator communicating in morse would need to use one common language otherwise they cannot communicate anything beyond basic information. The structure of all morse QSOs is largely based on the language of one of the operators. If you don’t know that language you won’t be able to understand it. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">If morse was a universal language you would be able to understand what two operators were saying when they were discussing something in their own language. An English operator for example might be able to write down a discussion between two German operators but unless they understood German they'd likely have no understanding of what was said. If you listen to non English operators communicating between themselves you mostly will hear them using their own common language, such as French, German etc., and unless you know those languages you simply won't understand what is being communicated.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> Learning morse can be difficult for many reasons but learning morse is simply learning to represent the 26 letters (in English), numerals, & punctuation by combinations of short and/or longer sounds, commonly known as dots and dashes. In this it is no different than learning the written alphabet we use in many languages to represent the sounds which make up any particular word or thought.</span></div>David Perryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08820865982786898527noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2728764495395489914.post-35579602341311515462023-07-11T16:53:00.006+01:002023-07-11T16:55:54.724+01:00Fred Neegan Cree Indian <div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaQIi1JZ7DWqRHR77r_NMZ5JbgXM1AmR9ni8r_tIcG6AwYTHdD6Ip96o5EHpRtHpPQdhea6luF6cy5SRW81YEMYkbgY2lHsPWk0uGt2TtYgL7STJOjzCkmnDG6RJN2r82IjLI2gafR9tS_-vJmZxc0qLcjh_iDPGMafIjBGRJGJbTh2yR19UAhloA_oXk/s639/IMG_0738.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="639" data-original-width="383" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaQIi1JZ7DWqRHR77r_NMZ5JbgXM1AmR9ni8r_tIcG6AwYTHdD6Ip96o5EHpRtHpPQdhea6luF6cy5SRW81YEMYkbgY2lHsPWk0uGt2TtYgL7STJOjzCkmnDG6RJN2r82IjLI2gafR9tS_-vJmZxc0qLcjh_iDPGMafIjBGRJGJbTh2yR19UAhloA_oXk/w240-h400/IMG_0738.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;">I'd met Fred briefly in Mattice several years before. We'd just finished a trip down the Missainabi and Fred approached me and asked me if there was enough water. Although I'm not normally intimidated, I was this time. What on earth do you say to someone whose and extremely good canoeist and has paddled this river hundreds of times?</span></span><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">This gentleman of the river knows far more about surviving in the wild and/or bushcraft than most folk.
Fred is Ojibway/cree indian from Mattice on the Missinaibi River in Ontario. He's spent most of his life in the woods and on the river, paddling & hunting, guiding parties of both hunters and canoeists. He knows this river and some other local rivers better than any other living human. The great boreal forests hold no fear for Fred, for it is his home. He has two hunting cabins he built along the river. He knows the use of everything in the forest. Every noise he can identify. And if he needs to, he knows how to catch and/or kill it too. Fred is a real hunter and man of the forests. </span><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> He's probably the best canoeist you'll ever meet as well. Ok, he can't or won't have much to say about fancy J strokes, or whether the stroke you've just shown him is a knifed this or reversed that. He probably doesn't really care either. I asked a guide whose paddled with him what his canoeing was like. "He doesn't look like he's paddling" I was told, as his paddling skills are completely effortless. At one time or another Fred has canoed down most of the rapids on the Missinaibi and poled back up them too. I don't know whether Fred cares about grades either. If its a rapid and its canoeable then Fred can run it or pole it. When asked how well he knows the river, he says he knows every stone and rock in it, you know he's not exaggerating!
He's a minimalist too. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">What you see is what you get. Fred's wearing his canoeing gear. And his hunting gear. It was also his shopping gear on this day. Most of his equipment is bought from the local hardware shop in Mattice. No fancy knives or axes for Fred.
He has no web site, doesn't advertise either. But he's well know in the northern boreal forests. He's probably the only living first nation person to have a memorial erected whilst still alive. The landing place for canoeists in Mattice is called 'Fred's Landing'.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> He can carry the heaviest load on portages too. He's 83!! and not about to give up. Whilst we were talking the mention of another guided trip came up which involved long portages over difficult trails. Fred was keen to go, saying; "I want to know if I can still do it".
So if you want to learn how to survive in the forest, learn real bushcraft and canoeing from a real expert, whose been there lived it and done it, contact Fred, now! before its too late.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Since writing this, I've learned that Fred died in 2008 aged 87.</span></div></div>David Perryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08820865982786898527noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2728764495395489914.post-53958794612022289352023-03-14T20:16:00.009+00:002024-03-01T14:22:59.166+00:00'Smugglers' tunnels in Robin Hood's Bay and elsewhere ?<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #050505; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;">There are numerous tales about smuggling in Robin Hood's Bay, Whitby, Staithes & Scarborough. and its often claimed these places contain numerous smuggler’s tunnels. There are a number of documented stories about smugglers and the press gang operating in or from the vRobin Hood's bay and elsewhere.. The few accounts of smuggling were collected by JR Harrison of Whitby and published in the Yorkshire Weekly Post of September, 1936. <br />
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The largest so called smuggler's' tunnel enters the sea at the Wayfoot in Robin Hood's Bay and It was built to cover Kings Beck to allow extra buildings to be built above it.. It was built sometime prior to 1680. </span>The tunnel is only about 100 yards long and dark. There is a junction with another beck, Marna Dale joining it and this stream is the one which enters the village a little way upstream from Albion street. There are two or perhaps three small, now filled in, holes in the roof of the tunnel. Non is larger than 1ft in width. </p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #050505; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;">
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It is the most unlikely place to use for any smuggling. It is dark, often flowing with a decent amount of water and the two or three very small holes, now blocked, are in the roof of the tunnel, just about head hight. They would be far too small to have had someone climb in or out. Only relatively small items could be lifted in easily. You would also need some kind of lighting - and at night any smuggler could be seen by anyone either looking in the tunnel or outside. The tunnel echos noise and rather difficult to use.. It is sometimes claimed that the beck would be used to smuggle goods out of the village. However, the beck is overlooked by the main village road on one side and Chapel Street on the other. I'd also suggest that it would be difficult to use the beck to take any quantities of smuggled goods out of the village. </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #050505; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #050505; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEimNBuNAcqqgswCdzhpf9EX9DlH3rk7Lzwj224tQlkxiGSQMHoKj68Uja1ZbPW6ZIfKiAxnVgvTCCz-YFnYPVydX-svefb6fIlnhnNdCbm0MP27Q_1dYG5ozROWC8_OEnXvFUUGpp3qLKxbFK7PLccL-rxzdetAK-JdlcYZVkzWrTJHyLTehkQONdLG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEimNBuNAcqqgswCdzhpf9EX9DlH3rk7Lzwj224tQlkxiGSQMHoKj68Uja1ZbPW6ZIfKiAxnVgvTCCz-YFnYPVydX-svefb6fIlnhnNdCbm0MP27Q_1dYG5ozROWC8_OEnXvFUUGpp3qLKxbFK7PLccL-rxzdetAK-JdlcYZVkzWrTJHyLTehkQONdLG=w400-h300" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Kings Beck from the bridg</i>e.<br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #050505; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #050505; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #050505; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;">Until until the public sewer was built in modern times all the sewerage was deposited into the beck and many of the houses on Chapel street still have small ‘outhouses’, which once contained toilets. The becks running through the village would be full of human waste. These small tunnels were almost certainly built to carry sewerage from the domestic houses above. <br />
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There’s lots of tales of smuggled goods being passed from house to house from one end of the village to the other. Again this is extremely unlikely and totally impractical. Any smuggler would have to arrange for an occupant of all the houses to be present & ready to pass goods from one house to another - and that is assuming every house would have some kind of hatch to pass things from one house to the other.. It would be an extremely slow event and of course would fail completely if one or more occupants were absent from home. There is also the additional risk that if the Revenue men did a search every house in the chain it would likely have some contraband still in it to be passed to the next house. In the 1700s village it would be much more practical to send someone up the bank and keep watch for the customs/revenue men and give warning to those further down the village.. </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #050505; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #050505; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;">Lots of house owners have said they've discovered blocked up holes in walls and these were used for smuggling These are blocked up windows rendered unusable when the adjoining property was extended upwards, therefore blocking off the light to the the next door property. Planning laws weren't quite what they are now!. </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #050505; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #050505; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;">Likewise a number of people carrying out renovations have discovered </span>below their floors large chambers or rooms often with no obvious entrance/exit. These were almost certainly normal cellars and simply used as a cold store for normal perishable goods and longs since fallen into disuse. Cellars are a common enojugh feature in many houses elsewhere. </p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #050505; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #050505; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;">These and other tunnels are often claimed as smuggler's tunnels without considering any other purpose for their existence. The ones I've seen or actually been in, appear totally impractical for that use. There's a Sutcliffe photograph of Bay taken from the scaur / beach area showing several houses with narrow wooden shoots going over the cliff and exiting onto the beach. These were simply wood or metal shoots for for getting rid of sewerage and or other waste as are the many other 'smugglers' tunnels discovered during building work.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #050505; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #050505; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;">There is ‘talk’, of a similar smugglers tunnel leading from the basement of the Cutty Sark pub in Whitby and other houses, to the harbour . At high tides any tunnel below street level would be subject to flooding. And of course that means you could not enter it from the harbour side either. And of course if it entered the harbour, anyone would be able to see it and of course know about it’s existence - including the customs men. </span>Certainly if I lived in the Cutty Sark which is only a few yards from the harbour I'd find it quicker and safer to use the harbour side itself when the coast was clear.</p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #050505; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #050505; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #050505; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;">Aside from the impractical use of such small tunnels for smuggling purposes we must also consider the extreme difficulties of constructing these tunnels and hiding their construction from the Revenue men, let alone getting permission from other house owners to tunnel under their property. </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #050505; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #050505; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;">Smuggling in the British Isles - A history, by Richard Platt.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #050505; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;">A History of Robin Hood's Bay, by Barrie Farnill, published by the NYMNP</span></p>David Perryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08820865982786898527noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2728764495395489914.post-88990857280050590252023-02-15T20:33:00.002+00:002023-02-16T20:24:56.771+00:00Hitchiking by plane and ship<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:donotoptimizeforbrowser/> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--> <p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #333300; font-family: arial;">Travelling north along the A1 recently, I saw three people stood at the side of the road holding a sign marked ‘Scotland’ as the traffic passed by.<span> </span>You don’t see many hitch hikers these days and these were the first I’d seen for three or four years.<span> </span>Like many folk I’ve done a lot hitch hiking in my younger days and some of it by unconventional means including hitching on a plane, but my wife Trish even managing a trip on an oil-tanker along with her four children.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #333300; font-family: arial;">Both these trips were done prior to 1980.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #333300; font-family: arial;">Hitching by plane</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #333300; font-family: arial;">I worked in the Shetlands and was on a regular flight to Glasgow. I would normally have disembarked and traveled by train to Whitby. O<span>n the plane I</span> ended up sitting next to the stewardess at the rear and when she was done with the trolley we chatted.<span> </span>I wondered where she lived and she said Newcastle.<span> </span>I commiserated on her misfortune<span> </span>on having further<span> </span>to travel when the plane terminated in Glasgow.<span> </span>“Oh, it doesn’t”, she replied, “It’s going on to to Teesside – I'll get off there!.” “Any chance of a lift –I live in Whitby”, I asked, with no hope of being told yes.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #333300; font-family: arial;">To my surprise she said she'd ask the captain then added there would be a few more on board who probably would prefer to get off at Teesside instead of Glasgow.<span> </span>Looking down the cabin I could see several others who would love the chance to continue on to Teesside including at least another two who lived in Whitby. Not wanting to give her too much of an extra work load, I told her, half jokingly, that if we could stay on board I’d do her duties for her, something I could do easily as I’d flown on this route with the same airline nearly 40 times in the last three years.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #333300; font-family: arial;">As she disappeared to the flight deck I didn’t hold my breath, as I thought my cheeky request would promptly be turned down.<span> </span>She returned a minutes later saying that the captain was happy with us staying on board, so several of us remained seated as the aircraft discharged most of the passengers at Glasgow and we took off again<span> </span>for the flight to Teesside. As we readied to take off she proffered the microphone and said, “Go on then!”.<span> </span>I made the usual announcements over the PA and whilst the stewardess remained seated I later took the trolley down the aisle<span> </span>handing out cold drinks to my work mates, receiving many ribald comments along the way.<span> </span>Forty minutes later we were in Teesside airport and the three of us from Whitby jumped into a taxi and were soon in town.<span> </span>Probably the fastest<span> </span>possible trip ever made from the Shetland Isles to Whitby by far.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #333300; font-family: arial;">
</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #333300; font-family: arial;">I thought this mode of transport was pretty unique<span> </span>for hitching until I met Trish some years later and she told me of her trip to the<span> </span>Isles of Scilly, this being even more of an accomplishment as she did it with four young children in tow.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #333300; font-family: arial;"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #333300; font-family: arial;">Trish takes up her story:-</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #333300; font-family: arial;"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #333300; font-family: arial;">We’d often been to the Isles of Scilly by boat, by helicopter and by small plane.<span> </span>But that had been from England and we now lived on the East coast of Ireland and had four young children so it was much more complicated and expensive.<span> </span>It seemed impossible but my then husband who worked for an oil company had a brainwave – he would speak to the captain of one of the tankers that came into the port about getting a lift on board ship<i>.</i><span><span> </span>After conversations with the parent company in Germany the captain agreed that they would take us to and from the Isle of Scilly, but we had to organise a pick up in the Atlantic off the Scillies.<span> </span>It sounded good but was complicated and this was long before mobile phones!<span> </span>Firstly we had to think of how we’d get picked up.<span> </span>Fortunately because we’d been before we had contacts who put us in touch with one of the local fisherman who agreed to pick us up.<span> </span>Easy?<span> </span>Not really because the arrival of ‘our’ tanker, The Aztec, depended on the weather.<span> </span>It would only be alongside in Ireland<span> </span>for as long as it took to discharge the oil and would be off again a few hours later.<span> </span>I had to have everything packed and organised for six of us and be ready for off when I received the phone call.<span> </span>The fishing boat had to be contacted about our ETA and to complicate things even more we were staying on St Martins, a small off island, so had to be taken off the fishing boat into a rowing boat as my then husband had to go to customs on the main island.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #333300; font-family: arial;"><span> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #333300; font-family: arial;"><span>The day and the time came, and we were off, down the Irish sea, and twenty-five miles off the tip of Cornwall to the islands.<span> </span>It was rough and we were seasick but the crew made us welcome and the children had a great time when they weren’t being sick.<span> </span>We arrived and anchored and there was the fishing boat waiting just off the Round Island Lighthouse.<span> </span>Being a tanker it was fairly easy to transfer except that we had a four year old, and a thirteen month old and both had to be handed over to the fisherman.<span> </span>As we approached land a small rowing boat met us and we were rowed ashore whilst my husband headed off to Customs.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #333300; font-family: arial;"><span>Our two weeks holiday started to stretch to three as off shore gales prevented the tanker from approaching the isles.<span> </span>We ran out of money, had to live off rabbits we caught and blackberries and crab apples we picked.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #333300; font-family: arial;"><span>Near the end of the third<span> </span>week a message came through that a tanker, the Sioux was approaching our pick up point. We grabbed our stuff and walked down to the beach and all the locals came down to wave us off.<span> </span>We stood watching with a full moon lighting up the sea and as we climbed into the rowing boat we could see the lights of the tanker as it waited for us off Round Island.<span> </span>Lifting the children into the arms of one of the crew bending over the safety rail, onto the ship in the dark was a bit scary but the children declared it a great adventure!.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #333300; font-family: arial;"><span> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #333300; font-family: arial;"><span>I doubt hitching a lift by plane or ship would be possible now. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p>David Perryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08820865982786898527noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2728764495395489914.post-4576061402001391002023-01-13T20:31:00.002+00:002023-02-01T19:20:14.734+00:00 Buying our house in Ireland<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Six weeks. That’s how long the solicitor in Ireland told us it would take to complete the purchase of our house we’d agreed to buy in Lissacaha, Co. Cork. Before we even put our house on the market in England, someone Trish’s niece knew found out we were moving and offered to buy it. So I gave my employer six weeks notice, packed my bags and six weeks later I set off in our tiny VW campervan with our cat, leaving Mrs P (Trish), who moved into her brother’s house, to complete her degree course in England to join me later. I’d the promise of some work in Ireland as a management trainer, and with the sale of our house quickly completed we’d just got enough money to pay for the house in Ireland and complete the work needed to make it liveable. Until the sale was completed I could live in the campervan if I needed.</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The warning signs came slowly. First the guy who’d promised me the work vanished, taking my reference books and other material I’d lent him with him. </span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The weeks passed by. I heard nothing from the solicitors. Our’s told us he’d heard nothing from the vendor’s solicitor. So I contacted the vendor who lived up the road from ‘our’ house and she assured me things were progressing normally. Rather than live in the camper she agreed to my request to live, temporarily, in the house we were buying from her. More weeks passed without hearing anything. Another reassurance from the vendor, but this time she told me I’d have to move out as her solicitor in the big city of Cork had told her I shouldn’t be in the property.</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">So I collected my few possessions (and our cat!) and moved out. A few more weeks passed without any contact from the solicitors. Our solicitor discovered that the delay was caused because the vendor’s solicitor couldn’t find the title deeds to the property. The vendor assured me the solicitor had them and that she was pushing him into competition.</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Even more time passed. A tiny campervan is not the place to live in and by now i’d learned enough about the vendor from locals to suggest we ‘formalise’ the situation by offering to to rent in the meantime. She accepted immediately and the cat and myself moved back in that day.</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Yet more time passed and hearing nothing from our solicitors I contacted them again and was told in no uncertain terms that not having title deeds to the property meant that parting with your money meant you may end up with no money and no house. He told me clearly that if he was in my shoes he’d walk away from the purchase. I now had no job, no house and our dream was disappearing fast. Another visit to the vendor and again I was told by her that she was definitely wanting to sell the house and she’d been in contact with her solicitor only the previous day to see what was happening. Clearly nothing!. But she handed me a copy of the deeds to the property she claimed she was selling us.</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Further disappointment came when I discovered the threshold for paying stamp duty in Ireland was so low that we’d have to add an additional several thousand pounds which we did not have, to our budget. Our dream was crumbling in front of our eyes as we’d absolutely no spare money and hadn’t anticipated this extra cost. </span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">We’d sold the house in England. We had no house, no job, income or money. Things were not going well. This was overcome by a 'brown paper job', the details of which I won't go into but it amounted to me and the owner going to the bank, drawing out several thousand pounds and giving it to her in cash.</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Trish visited me during a break from her studies. and we went to our solicitor who again spelt out the dire consequences of attempting to buy something without any title deeds. In desperation I handed him the copy of the deeds & property folio map the vendor had given me. He gave them one glance and flicked them onto his desk.. “This isn’t the right property”, he pointed out. I asked him how he knew and he explained the property portfolio number wasn’t the same one as the vendor’s solicitor had been selling. But I knew it was the right house as I could clearly recognise the layout of it on the map. This I told the solicitor. “Are you sure?”, he asked. “OH yes - 100%,” I have qualification in hill/mountain walking, I spend a lot of time map reading in the UK and europe, and then pointed out the relevant features on the property map. He wasn’t convinced and looked in his files for the copy of deed he’d got from Doody’s, the vendor’s solicitor, in Cork. “Look”, he said in triumph, “Her ye are, the property file number is different - your map isn’t the right house”. This time I plucked the copy from him and examined document & map. It was immediately clear to me that the property deeds & map he’d got was in fact the vendor’s own one - the one she was living in now. This I told our solicitor who still wasn’t entirely convinced so I patiently explained that I had no doubt and could easily recognise all the features on both both property maps and I carefully pointed these out on the two respective maps. I had no doubt her solicitor was attempting to sell us the wrong house - her own house!. </span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Rural Ireland is a very parochial place. He gave it some thought and then said he could recall selling the very same house many years ago for a previous vendor and went away to look for the relevant files. A while later he returned and dusted these off on the desk. Sure enough they were identical in layout and proved I was right. </span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The vendor’s solicitor had been trying to sell us the wrong house - the one the vendor was actually living in right now. We called Doody’s in Cork city. Clearly the big man in cork wasn’t used to be being told by by an unemployed Englishman he was selling the wrong house. He spoke to confirm what I’d said. But the matter of the ‘missing’ deeds still remained.</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The vendor wan’t entirely happy with her solicitor and told him she’d trusted him with the deeds long ago when she’d taken out the mortgage on the house she was now living in. Our solicitor had an eureka moment. He asked which house had she taken out the mortgage for and checked with her solicitors to enquire which house he’d registered the mortgage with. It was the wrong house!! All the years she’d lived there and thought she’d actually had a mortgage on her own house whilst in fact her solicitor had taken out a mortgage on ‘our’ property and consequently the deeds were safe in the hands of the mortgage lender. To add to her anger it also meant that the property she’d been living in for many years was never insured as the insurance, tied to the mortgage, was also taken out for the house we were purchasing.</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">A week or two later the house was legally ours.</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">See it here::-<span style="color: #134f5c;">https://www.blogger.com/blog/posts/3144970274483656463</span></span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #134f5c;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">That of course was not the end of the matter. The previous occupant was Ian Bailey, the most infamous self confessed murder in Ireland and he had now he moved a 100m up the road with the women we bought the house from. During his High Court court case where he attempted to sue all the newspapers we had endless visits and interviews with the press, police and overseas film crews. I was even on the front page of on of the irish red-tops.</span></span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #134f5c;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">I wrote a couple of articles about him here:- </span></span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><a href="http://davidwperry.blogspot.com/2009/11/living-next-to-suspected-killer.html">Living next to a suspected Killer</a></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><a href="http://davidwperry.blogspot.com/2009/11/ian-bailey-2.html">Ian Bailey (2)</a></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><a href="http://davidwperry.blogspot.com/2010/04/ian-bailey-3.html">Ian Bailey (3)</a></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">A quick Google for "Ian Bailey Cork, will turn up thousands of posts.</span></span></span></p>David Perryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08820865982786898527noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2728764495395489914.post-67159754737862030412022-04-27T07:11:00.012+01:002023-11-17T20:37:12.263+00:00Learning Morse in the Royal Navy<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: medium;">I joined the Royal Navy as a Radio Operator in 1966.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: medium;">Morse was taught as apart of our Radio Operator training course which lasted about 35 weeks. This included breaks for conventional holidays if they occurred whilst in training. Training ran 5 days per week and the hours were approximately 8am - 5pm.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: medium;">In addition to morse we were also taught subjects such as cryptography, voice & morse procedures, touch typing, message handling, radio organisation Visual/tactical signalling, and so on. Morse was just one of the elements of the course. The morse lessons lasted perhaps an hour or maybe two hours per day. </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: medium;"> I distinctively remember arriving at the RN Signal School, HMS Mercury in near Petersfield Hampshire, on the Friday evening after having completed six weeks of basic naval training (knots, marching, seamanship etc. at another naval establishment). I was interested in how the RN was going to teach me morse. Much to my surprise I found out as soon as we arrived. It wasn’t a sophisticated method. </span><span style="font-size: large;">We were greeted by two of our instructors, who introduced themselves and told us to pair up. They gave each pair a set of flash cards with the CW character on one side and the letter on the reverse. He then told us, “You’ve the weekend to learn the 26 letters". “Get on with it and we’ll be starting on Monday”. We were left much to our own devices for the rest of the weekend. As you would expect, learning morse on our own was rather a lot to expect from a group of teenagers, but I guess it kept us occupied and out of trouble over the weekend. I’m not sure if anyone managed to learn the complete alphabet though. </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: medium;">
<br />
</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: medium;">On the Monday morning the flash cards were taken away and the next few lessons the instructor took us through the morse characters with him sending the individual letters on a key and getting us to learn the ones we didn’t know. I cannot quite remember how exactly how he did this but from speaking to other Radio Operators from around the same time it appeared that instructors all followed one of two methods. One was by going through all the letters comprising of dits (E I S H etc.,), or dashes, etc., then A U V , then perhaps N D B etc., and so on. Other instructors simply chose to start with A B C D and continue through the alphabet.. Either way it was not too long before we all had grasped the sound of the letters of the alphabet as we were encouraged to refer to morse characters by their sounds, such as, 'didah' for the letter A. Once we could read all the letters and punctuations we started listening to pre-recorded tapes..</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: medium;">Not long after the course commenced we were given a morse aptitude test. This consisted of having to listen to morse characters being sent and write down the corresponding sequence of dots and dashes. I cannot remember the speed the characters were being sent at but I was having problems telling dots from dashes. A number of us failed, including me but luckily we were told that it didn’t matter as the Navy was simply trialling the test. All of us managed to complete the course without problems.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-size: large;">I remember very early in the course the instructor playing a tape of morse at 20 wpm and telling us this was the goal we would achieve. I certainly could not recognise or identify dits, dots, dashes, characters or words. To me it sounded unachievable. We certainly did not use Farnsworth or Koch methods of learning.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: medium;">The pre-recorded tapes contained a combination of ; </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: medium;">a) Plain language texts, often from popular or classical books,</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: medium;">b) Foreign language texts, and; </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: medium;">c) Groups of 5 random letters.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: medium;">Random groups and foreign language texts were used as it prevents you from guessing what letter might be coming next. Whilst anticipating what comes next sometimes helps we were taught to write what we heard and therefore avoiding incorrect guesses. This was important. We were required to print what we heard.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: medium;">The emphases was on accuracy and we were clearly being taught to read anything sent in morse code.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: medium;">I cannot remember what speed the first tapes were sent at, but probably less than 10 wpm. But I do know we did start with the characters sent slow enough so everyone could recognise identify what dits and dahs were being sent. </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: medium;"><u><br /></u></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: medium;"><u>We certainly did not use Farnsworth spacing, or Koch </u></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: medium;">Over the coming weeks we were also introduced to punctuation and miscellaneous characters, and the common letters utilised in other languages such as Á È, Ö Ü and so on.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: medium;"> Once the class achieved around 94% or more accuracy the speed of the tapes was increased by one or two wpm. This was achieved by increasing the character speed and reducing the time between letters etc., </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: medium;">As the weeks passed by we also listened to morse being sent by hand on a straight key and to morse being sent over the airwaves, with background noise/static. This of course made it a little harder but more realistic. As trainee RO’s we were also being taught to touch type in another class and once we’d gained a decent ability to touch type we also learned to copy morse directly onto a typewriter. </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: medium;">Or course we had breaks at weekends and holidays. Several days of not listening to morse meant that when we resumed our classes we struggled for a while getting our previous speed back up.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: medium;">Over the 35 weeks the speed was increased until we could all read morse at 20wpm at 98% accuracy. We were required to do two tests, one using a pen and an other test done using a typewriter. </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: medium;"> <br />
As the course progressed we were later taught to send morse by hand. . As we’d also learned about different wireless telegraphy procedures and the format of military signals, these too became a part of both the morse reception and the morse transmission classes. The pass rate for morse transmission was 15wpm @ 80%. This may seem rather low but the RN knew that having reached that degree of proficiency we’d soon became much more proficient when we were posted to our first ships. A year after I joined my first ship my ability to send and received morse had increased considerably and I was able to send on a straight key at over 22 wpm with 100% accuracy. Likewise I could easily copy morse at 25wpm by hand or typewriter.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: medium;"><br />
As far as I can recall no one failed to learn morse or failed the course, and although I remember coming out of some morse lessons rather exhausted I wouldn’t say learning morse was difficult. There was no ‘plateau’ phase often mentioned by people who learn morse on their own. Learning morse was certainly no different from learning to touch type which we did using a method I think may have been the ‘Pitman Method” and much of the typing was done to music with distinct beats. This was quite fun - especially as we were all typing exactly the same scripts at the same time and it was amusing when someone made a mistake and the class rhythm was shaken somewhat.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: medium;">All our instructors were Petty Officers or Chief Petty Officers. As far as I can remember, all of them were also trained and qualified instructors. Without exception they were good instructors, patient and encouraging. We were certainly not shouted at or insulted.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: medium;">Just about every merchant navy operator I have met learned in much the same way. Military training is costly, both in time and money If there was a faster or better method of teaching I’m sure the RN and commercial institutions such as Marconi Marine, would have adopted better ways a long time ago!</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: medium;">NOTES:- 'Instant Character Recognition', & 'Instant Word Recognition', were never mentioned, although I've heard many amateurs use the terms. The ability to recognise characters & words, 'instantly' simply comes with practice and familiarity. </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none; font-size: medium;">Like commercial operators we were taught not to anticipate or guess what was being sent and to write/record what we heard. Having said that the ability to anticipate what is being sent can sometimes be helpful. This is one of the reasons we listened to foreign languages and random groups. We were being taught to read morse at 20 wpm regardless of what was being sent.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"></span>Some differences on learning on your own and learning in a structured group.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="background-color: #fcfcff; font-family: arial;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(20, 20, 20);">As for the so called 'difficulty', of learning morse. I think there are a number of issues for most learners. This is based on a comparison between my experience of learning morse as a 16 yr old in the RN (</span><a class="externalLink" href="http://davidwperry.blogspot.com/2022/04/learning-morse-in-royal-navy.html" rel="nofollow" style="border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; margin: 0px -3px; padding: 0px 3px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Learning Morse in the Royal Navy</a><span style="caret-color: rgb(20, 20, 20);">) and that of hams in my radio club who've tried to learn morse (and failed).</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(20, 20, 20);" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(20, 20, 20);" /><span style="caret-color: rgb(20, 20, 20);">My experience of learning morse is not particularly different from other servicemen or commercial operators I've met over the years.</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="background-color: #fcfcff; font-family: arial;"><br style="caret-color: rgb(20, 20, 20);" /><span style="caret-color: rgb(20, 20, 20);">1. We were mostly teenagers or early 20's </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(20, 20, 20);" /><span style="caret-color: rgb(20, 20, 20);">2. We had to attend lessons</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(20, 20, 20);" /><span style="caret-color: rgb(20, 20, 20);">3. There were no distractions</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(20, 20, 20);" /><span style="caret-color: rgb(20, 20, 20);">4. The instructors were (in my case), also qualified trainers/teachers - they knew how to teach us.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(20, 20, 20);" /><span style="caret-color: rgb(20, 20, 20);">5. The method/s used had evolved over many years and was tried and tested. </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(20, 20, 20);" /><span style="caret-color: rgb(20, 20, 20);">6. The instructors were there in the lesson with you to help, encourage, humour and clarify any issues.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(20, 20, 20);" /><span style="caret-color: rgb(20, 20, 20);">7. You got a job out of it at the end, which for many was the start of a long career.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(20, 20, 20);" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(20, 20, 20);" /><span style="caret-color: rgb(20, 20, 20);">Compared to my experience or knowledge of how hams appear to learn morse.</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="background-color: #fcfcff; font-family: arial;"><br style="caret-color: rgb(20, 20, 20);" /><span style="caret-color: rgb(20, 20, 20);">1. Often a solitary experience = no one to help/clarify, encourage etc.,</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(20, 20, 20);" /><span style="caret-color: rgb(20, 20, 20);">2. Family life gets in the way.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(20, 20, 20);" /><span style="caret-color: rgb(20, 20, 20);">3. Work gets in the way.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(20, 20, 20);" /><span style="caret-color: rgb(20, 20, 20);">4. Other distractions get in the way!!</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(20, 20, 20);" /><span style="caret-color: rgb(20, 20, 20);">5. Numerous choices of learning, many of which appear to be based on someone's experience of learning or trying to learn morse on their own.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(20, 20, 20);" /><span style="caret-color: rgb(20, 20, 20);">6. No particular target to reach.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(20, 20, 20);" /><span style="caret-color: rgb(20, 20, 20);">7. No understanding of what's involved or how long it might take to learn morse.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(20, 20, 20);" /><span style="caret-color: rgb(20, 20, 20);">8. Age! I think the older you are it might just be harder to learn some new skills such as morse.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(20, 20, 20);" /><span style="caret-color: rgb(20, 20, 20);">9. And if you drop out you've still got a life (and job).</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(20, 20, 20);" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(20, 20, 20);" /><span style="caret-color: rgb(20, 20, 20);">Some things are simply easier learned if you are taught how to do them by someone else. Touch typing would be a good example. I can also remember my failed attempts to learn how to Eskimo role a kayak on my own with a 'book of instructions', with me. Then someone showed me - success!!! Driving a car might be another better example</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(20, 20, 20); font-size: 14.666666984558105px;">!!</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="background-color: #fcfcff; font-family: arial;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(20, 20, 20); font-size: 14.666666984558105px;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="background-color: #fcfcff; font-family: arial;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(20, 20, 20); font-size: 14.666666984558105px;">There are some erroneous beliefs about learning morse, which I believe simply make learning it harder. Many hams who learned morse on their own talk about the ability to 'Copy Behind' - copying one or two letters behind what is being sent. </span></span><span style="background-color: #fcfcff;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(179, 0, 179); font-size: 14.666666984558105px;">I'm not a believer in trying - or attempting to "copy behind is either desirable or necessary to teach it. I think it just happens as you gain experience and the speed of the morse increases.". </span></span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br style="caret-color: rgb(179, 0, 179); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;" /><span style="background-color: #fcfcff; caret-color: rgb(179, 0, 179); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;">I can copy over 30wpm. I'd guess I must be 'copying behind', in that as I'm writing down one character the next one is either being sent or has already been sent. I think it is just what automatically happens when you are listening to faster morse especially as your speed increases. You obviously have to write down a character after its been sent (not as its being sent!!), so beyond a certain speed there is an overlap which means your are still writing/typing or even thinking about the character that has just been sent, whilst the next one is being sent.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(179, 0, 179); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(179, 0, 179); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;" /><span style="background-color: #fcfcff; caret-color: rgb(179, 0, 179); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;">Its certainly not something I deliberately do and I'm not aware of it when I'm receiving morse. I've never heard any radio operators or trainers ever mention it.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(179, 0, 179); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(179, 0, 179); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;" /><span style="background-color: #fcfcff; caret-color: rgb(179, 0, 179); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;">So attempting to copy 'behind', is really just an exercise in making it harder for yourself. I'm sure if I deliberately attempted to copy one or two characters behind then my brain just would not manage it. </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(179, 0, 179); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(179, 0, 179); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;" /><span style="background-color: #fcfcff; caret-color: rgb(179, 0, 179); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;">I think copying behind is just what happens automatically and not something deliberate.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="background-color: #fcfcff; caret-color: rgb(179, 0, 179); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;"><br /></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="background-color: #fcfcff; caret-color: rgb(179, 0, 179); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;">Another erroneous belief is telling learners never write anything down and from the start only do 'head copy'. Again this is something that comes automatically. None of the military and civilian operators I know were taught to 'head copy', yet all could if they wished. I think trying to tell new learners of morse to head copy from the start is simply making the learning of morse more difficult because it compels the learner to memorise the letters, words and sentences being sent in their heads when they are still familiarising themselves with recognising the individual morse characters.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; text-decoration: underline;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; text-decoration: underline;"><b>Note: </b></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> My experience of learning morse was just at the start of the decline of widespread use of morse at sea. Older contemporaries of mine were required to read morse at 22wpm, and around 1975 the requirement had dropped from 20wpm to 18wpm. RATT/RTTY & Satellite communications were becoming increasingly fitted to both commercial shipping and military ships Morse was on its way out.</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p>David Perryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08820865982786898527noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2728764495395489914.post-53920958341447295652021-01-18T19:05:00.001+00:002021-01-18T19:05:29.352+00:00Rescue on the Thelon River, NWT Canada<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16.2px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">This incident took part whilst we were on the The Clarke / Thelon rivers in 2007. </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16.2px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16.2px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Not exactly a rescue in the way us British canoeists would know it - but this demonstrates how difficult access/egress is for many of the remoter Canadian rivers.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16.2px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16.2px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16.2px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Our 3rd day of paddling with a small group of paddlers on the Thelon and we encountered ice which went right across the river. A combination of hauling the canoes across the ice and by portage and we were making slow progress. </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16.2px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16.2px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">On the river bank a lone middle aged canoeist was sitting next to her small tent, and her collapsable canoe. Alex our guide went to talk to her. It transpired that she had been having problems with her satellite telephone and she told Alex she was; “waiting for the ice to melt or break up. ”. And had been on the river for three days. We also discovered that she had called Fort Smith Royal Canadian Mounted Police as she wanted ‘rescuing’ as the thought of three or more weeks of isolated paddling through remote wilderness had become far too intimidating for her to cope with and didn’t want to paddle any further, and had given up any idea of paddling to the only settlement on the river at Baker lake a few hundred miles downstream.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16.2px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16.2px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Alex told her that no plane could land on the broken ice, nor on the rapids downstream and that she’d have to paddle back a mile or so where the water was flat enough for a float plane to land safely, but she appeared unwilling to move. She had plenty of food and supplies so we left her where she was knowing she’d made contact with the RCMP in Fort Smith. Alex told us that to ‘rescue’ her would cost her $6000 Canadian dollars for the 2 hour flight from Ft Smith!! </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16.2px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16.2px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Alex told us that Kevin, whom we had met in Fort Smith was flying out to the river and would probably paddle down to help her move her camp to a place of rescue.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16.2px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16.2px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">We paddled on.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16.2px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16.2px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">When we eventually finished our own trip and flew back to Fort Smith we heard the rest of story. It transpired that she was from California and had been rescued the previous year on the Mckenzie River after her collapsable canoe had sunk - and this was the same canoe she was using on the Thelon!!. </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16.2px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16.2px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">A plane had flown out to her the day after we met her, and dropped a message to her telling her she needed to move to a safer place so the plane could land which she refused to do. </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16.2px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16.2px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Later another plane overflew her and reported that she had moved her tent, but not to the correct place and that she could not be seen. At this point it had become apparent to those in Fort Smith that she was in need of mental health care as well, so Kevin took with him a Psychologist & Psychiatrist, and after a days paddle eventual found her and helped her move to a place where a float plane could come and fetch her back to Ft. Smith.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16.2px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16.2px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">When I later called in to North West Air, to confirm our own arrangements for flying out of Ft Smith the woman was talking to a representative from the North West Air and wanted to know about getting a job in Ft Smith and for advice on where she could pitch her tent! Mmmm?</span></p>David Perryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08820865982786898527noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2728764495395489914.post-46653817100577408042020-02-19T19:40:00.000+00:002020-02-19T19:40:00.672+00:00Hedgelaying training for the York Wildlife Trust <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hobb House Farm Rosedale. February 2018</span><br />
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<br />David Perryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08820865982786898527noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2728764495395489914.post-87477937286337451352019-11-01T07:13:00.001+00:002023-04-27T18:39:47.113+01:00SNEATON ASSIZES<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />David Perryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08820865982786898527noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2728764495395489914.post-6581014125910097632019-01-09T14:41:00.000+00:002019-01-09T14:41:14.038+00:00Satir/Satyr inscribed stone Wheeldale, Goathland<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Near Skivick Crag - Wheeldale, at GR 809982 can be found at a small stone cairn a stone laying against the cairn with the words, Satir, or as Tom Scott Burns told me, 'Satyr', which he was informed to be the burial place of a dog of that name and there is also a date which he says is Sept 1848 or 9.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I didn't notice when I looked but apparently to the left of the year date is; 'Sept' - the date looks rather like 1809 to me but I viewed it on a rather dull day </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've walked within this inscribed stone hundreds of times since my youth and never noticed it. I looked in the area for nearly an hour until I was a local farmer feeding his sheep. I asked him and he immediately took me the small cairn and pointed it out but he could add no further information.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>David Perryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08820865982786898527noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2728764495395489914.post-73117607344299634002018-12-29T20:04:00.001+00:002020-06-15T19:29:46.649+01:002 Foxes Stone - Danby Head<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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I was first told about this stone by Author Tom Scott Burns in 1989. I never got around to visiting it until one wet and windy day this December 2018. Easy enough to find with his instructions but I could not find another inscription close by, recorded by T.S.B. <i>"....and low down to the left - "I.Peirson 1796" - is inscribed upon another rock at ground level"</i> . The ground is extremely steep and pretty overgrown I could not find this stone. Within the last few years there had been a cliff fall nearby to the 2 Foxes Stone. It was raining and unpleasant so I didn't spend a lot of time looking.</div>
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<div style="text-align: left;">The location for both stones is reached with some difficulty. (NZ 692024). From Botton in Danby Dale follow the track which runs south past High Farm, past the forest on your left, it then ascends onto the moor on the east side of Danby Head, follow the track around the edge of the wood on your right. As the track descends towards the beck there is a gate. At the top of the west side of the beck there are a few small trees along a small broken crag. A very indistinct zig-zag takes you up to the right from where you can traverse to the rock face where the 2 Foxes stone engraving is.</div>
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Peirsons were a family of Quakers in Danby Dale at one time and it may be a memorial to a hunting accident. Who knows? Here is a picture of the Peirson Stone, and the location where it can be found. I was unable to locate it even after another visit and much longer search. Some of the crag appears to have fallen away and perhaps with it, the Peirson stone.<br />
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<br />David Perryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08820865982786898527noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2728764495395489914.post-68534500343067794232018-12-17T11:46:00.001+00:002019-01-27T19:22:14.140+00:00Farndale Cairn<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Cairns are becoming increasingly common on the North York Moors over the last 20 years as more people take to the hills. This is already causing a problem where this habit causes damage to archeological sites such as Tumulus (Bronze age burial mounds) National Park Blog= <a href="https://northyorkmoorsnationalpark.wordpress.com/2017/03/20/deconstructing-mounds/" target="_blank">https:/deconstructing-mounds/</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Examples of well built ones with well placed stones are far less common. Many are placed where they can be seen from a distance, such as the shoulder of a hill. But this one is extremely well hidden and I'm not sure it can be seen from any public path or road. I</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Its in Farndale. Its very well built - the stones are carefully selected and placed so that the cairn is a true cone shape. Someone took a great deal of care in making this a nice cone shaped cairn. I'd probably guess its a memorial to a favoured dog..Or perhaps an accident? But who knows?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">They aren't too common, and this is the only one I've seen in the North Yorkshire Moors park. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This specimen is at Danby Dale just south of Botton village at NZ 690031</span>David Perryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08820865982786898527noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2728764495395489914.post-30560019760608238782018-10-07T17:34:00.002+01:002018-10-07T17:34:56.693+01:00Two Trees growing from one.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Its not rare to see one tree growing from the stump of a fallen tree, but here we have two. One is a Silver Birch and the other is I think a Norway Spruce.</span>David Perryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08820865982786898527noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2728764495395489914.post-60901305812217352622018-08-25T21:19:00.004+01:002022-08-16T21:13:08.693+01:00Morse Code by Light.<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(20, 20, 20); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #141414; font-size: 14.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">There were other visual method of using Morse code apart from lights. Using a flag held in the hand and waved 180 degrees to signify a 'dash' and 90 degrees to signify the 'dit'. The ships bell could also be used and in this case two rapid rings were a dash, and one ring was a dit. Both these methods needed good spacing between letters and timing. Neither of these two methods of signalling were in use when I was at sea in the 1960’s and 70’s. (Semaphore is not the same as cw as it is the position of the arms which directly indicate the individual letters.)</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Practical differences in use? You can't blink much or look away using lights so either a good memory or someone to write for you was a good requirement, or you would read out aloud what was being sent so the Officer Of the Watch could hear what you were reading. Wet, cold weather also made light signalling difficult for obvious reasons. In terms of sending morse by light it was important to space out the characters of the letters much more than you might if you were sending morse by sound because it is harder by light to read quickly sent characters. It was the normal procedure in both warships and merchant ships that each word sent was acknowledged individually by the receiving operator sending a simple flash or 'T' to the sending operator. If he failed to do so, the word was sent again until it was acknowledged. At the end of the message a simple 'R' was send to acknowledge receipt of the whole message.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">As an aside I was once in one of a three vehicle group all occupied by experienced with radio operators. This was long before mobile/cell phones or small hand held radios were invented and we signalled driving directions between vehicles, using ordinary torches, whilst the vehicles were being driven. (it was on quiet country roads in Hampshire England!!!).</span></span></div>
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_lamp</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(20, 20, 20); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #141414; font-size: 14.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(20, 20, 20); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #141414; font-size: 14.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Here's the general procedure for signalling at sea. (from the International Code of Signals)</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(20, 20, 20); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #141414; font-size: 14.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; font-weight: 700;"><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(20, 20, 20); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #141414; font-size: 14.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 18pt; font-weight: 700;">CHAPTER 1</span></div><div class="page" title="Page 15"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">SECTION 6</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 16pt;">: </span><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRoman,Bold"; font-size: 16pt;">FLASHING LIGHT SIGNALING</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 12pt;">1. A signal made by flashing light is divided into the following parts:<br />(a) The </span><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRoman,Bold"; font-size: 12pt;">call</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 12pt;">.—It consists of the general call or the identity signal of the station to be called. It is answered</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 12pt;">by the answering signal.</span></p><ol start="2" style="list-style-type: none;"><li><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 12pt;">(b) The </span><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRoman,Bold"; font-size: 12pt;">identity</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 12pt;">.—The transmitting station makes </span><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRoman,Bold"; font-size: 12pt;">“DE” </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 12pt;">followed by its identity signal or name. This</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 12pt;">will be repeated back by the receiving station which then signals its own identity signal or name. This</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 12pt;">will also be repeated back by the transmitting station.</span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 12pt;">(c) The </span><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRoman,Bold"; font-size: 12pt;">text</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 12pt;">.—This consists of plain language or Code groups. When Code groups are to be used they</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 12pt;">should be preceded by the signal </span><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRoman,Bold"; font-size: 12pt;">“YU”</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 12pt;">. Words of plain language may also be in the text, when the</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 12pt;">signal includes names, places, etc. Receipt of each word or group is acknowledged by </span><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRoman,Bold"; font-size: 12pt;">“T”</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 12pt;">.</span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 12pt;">(d) The </span><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRoman,Bold"; font-size: 12pt;">ending</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 12pt;">.—It consists of the ending signal </span><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRoman,Bold"; font-size: 12pt;">“</span><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRoman,Bold"; font-size: 11pt;">AR</span><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRoman,Bold"; font-size: 12pt;">” </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 12pt;">which is answered by </span><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRoman,Bold"; font-size: 12pt;">“R”</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 12pt;">.</span></p></li></ol><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 12pt;">2. If the entire text is in plain language the same procedure is to be followed. The call and identity may be omitted when two stations have established communications and have already exchanged signals.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 12pt;">3. A list of procedure signals appears in Chapter 1, Section 10, Pages </span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt;">19 </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 12pt;">and </span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt;">20</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 12pt;">. Although the use of these signals is self-explanatory, the following notes might be found useful:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 12pt;">(a) The </span><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRoman,Bold"; font-size: 12pt;">General call signal </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 12pt;">(or call for unknown station) </span><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRoman,Bold"; font-size: 12pt;">“</span><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRoman,Bold"; font-size: 11pt;">AA AA AA</span><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRoman,Bold"; font-size: 12pt;">” </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 12pt;">etc., is made to attract attention when wishing to signal to all stations within visual signaling distance or to a station whose name or identity signal is not known. The call is continued until the station addressed answers.</span></p><ol start="2" style="list-style-type: none;"><li><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 12pt;">(b) The </span><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRoman,Bold"; font-size: 12pt;">Answering signal “</span><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRoman,Bold"; font-size: 11pt;">TTTT</span><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRoman,Bold"; font-size: 12pt;">” </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 12pt;">etc., is made to answer the call and it is to be continued until the transmitting station ceases to make the call. The transmission starts with the </span><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRoman,Bold"; font-size: 12pt;">“DE” </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 12pt;">followed by the name or identity signal of the transmitting station.</span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 12pt;">(c) The letter </span><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRoman,Bold"; font-size: 12pt;">“T” </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 12pt;">is used to indicate the receipt of each word or group.</span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 12pt;">(d) The </span><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRoman,Bold"; font-size: 12pt;">Erase signal “</span><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRoman,Bold"; font-size: 11pt;">EEEEEE</span><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRoman,Bold"; font-size: 12pt;">” </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 12pt;">etc., is used to indicate that the last group or word was signaled incor-</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 12pt;">rectly. It is to be answered with the erase signal. When answered, the transmitting station will repeat the last word or group which was correctly signaled and then proceed with the remainder of the trans- mission.</span></p></li></ol><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 12pt;">(e) The </span><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRoman,Bold"; font-size: 12pt;">Repeat signal “RPT” </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 12pt;">is to be used as follows:<br />(i) by the transmitting station to indicate that it is going to repeat (“I repeat”). If such a repetition does</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 12pt;">not follow immediately after </span><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRoman,Bold"; font-size: 12pt;">“RPT”</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 12pt;">, the signal should be interpreted as a request to the receiving</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 12pt;">station to repeat the signal received (“Repeat what you have received”);<br />(ii) by the receiving station to request for a repetition of the signal transmitted (“Repeat what you have</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 12pt;">sent”).<br />(iii)The </span><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRoman,Bold"; font-size: 12pt;">Special Repetition signals “AA”</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 12pt;">, </span><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRoman,Bold"; font-size: 12pt;">“AB”</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 12pt;">, </span><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRoman,Bold"; font-size: 12pt;">“WA”</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 12pt;">, </span><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRoman,Bold"; font-size: 12pt;">“WB”</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 12pt;">, and </span><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRoman,Bold"; font-size: 12pt;">“BN” </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 12pt;">are made by the receiving</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 12pt;">station as appropriate. In each case they are made immediately after the repeat signal </span><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRoman,Bold"; font-size: 12pt;">“RPT”</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 12pt;">. Examples:<br /></span><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRoman,Bold"; font-size: 12pt;">“RPT AB KL”</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 12pt;">—“Repeat all before group KL”.<br /></span><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRoman,Bold"; font-size: 12pt;">“RPT BN 'boats' 'survivors' ”</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 12pt;">—“Repeat all between words 'boats' and 'survivors' ”.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 12pt;">If a signal is not understood, or, when decoded, it is not intelligible, the repeat signal is not used. The receiving station must then make the appropriate signal from the Code, e.g., “Your signal has been received but not understood”.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 12pt;">(f) A correctly received </span><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRoman,Bold"; font-size: 12pt;">repetition </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 12pt;">is acknowledged by the signal </span><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRoman,Bold"; font-size: 12pt;">“OK”</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 12pt;">. The same signal may be used as an affirmative answer to a question (“It is correct”).</span></p></div></div><img alt="page15image1466030048" height="1.020000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/728d16f1-88bf-4812-9457-195d12f8673d" width="15.840000" /> <img alt="page15image1466030320" height="1.020000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/c074a050-c7a9-4206-95db-35f139008a9f" width="15.900000" /> <img alt="page15image1466030592" height="1.020000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/f7b9c00f-1d92-4556-95de-467c70b2b4d0" width="15.900000" /> <img alt="page15image1466030864" height="1.020000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/650743be-3d70-4aa3-9ddf-ae3a6c74aea2" width="15.840000" /> <img alt="page15image1466031200" height="1.020000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/e2d7a008-5673-4ae7-85b1-3ed72dceee81" width="29.340000" /> <img alt="page15image1466031536" height="1.020000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/1ec6381f-6450-4096-9150-824210dcb4bb" width="43.980000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt;">10</span></p></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 16"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt;">SECTION 6.—FLASHING LIGHT SIGNALING</span></p></div></div><img alt="page16image1469421200" height="1.020000" src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/48e96e73-27d4-467d-a6b8-2a32f8ba6509" width="15.840000" /><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><ol start="7" style="list-style-type: none;"><li><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 12pt;">(g) The </span><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRoman,Bold"; font-size: 12pt;">Ending signal “</span><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRoman,Bold"; font-size: 11pt;">AR</span><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRoman,Bold"; font-size: 12pt;">” </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 12pt;">is used in all cases to indicate the end of a signal or the end of the trans- mission. The receiving station answers with the signal </span><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRoman,Bold"; font-size: 12pt;">“R” </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 12pt;">= “Received” or “I have received your last signal”.</span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 12pt;">(h) The transmitting station makes the signal </span><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRoman,Bold"; font-size: 12pt;">“CS” </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 12pt;">when </span><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRoman,Bold"; font-size: 12pt;">requesting the name or identity signal </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 12pt;">of the receiving station.</span></p></li></ol><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 12pt;">(i) The</span><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRoman,Bold"; font-size: 12pt;">Waitingsignal</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 12pt;">or</span><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRoman,Bold"; font-size: 12pt;">Periodsignal“AS”</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 12pt;">istobeusedasfollows:<br />(i) When made independently or after the end of a signal it indicates that the other station must wait</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 12pt;">for further communications (</span><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRoman,Bold"; font-size: 12pt;">waiting signal</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 12pt;">).<br />(ii) When it is inserted between groups it serves to separate them (</span><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRoman,Bold"; font-size: 12pt;">period signal</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 12pt;">) to avoid confusion.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 12pt;">(j) The signal </span><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRoman,Bold"; font-size: 12pt;">“C” </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 12pt;">should be used to indicate an affirmative statement or an affirmative reply to an in- terrogative signal; the signal </span><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRoman,Bold"; font-size: 12pt;">“RQ” </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 12pt;">should be used to indicate a question. For a negative reply to an interrogative signal or for a negative statement, the signal </span><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRoman,Bold"; font-size: 12pt;">“N” </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 12pt;">should be used in visual or sound sig- naling and the signal </span><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRoman,Bold"; font-size: 12pt;">“NO” </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 12pt;">should be used for voice or radio transmission.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 12pt;">(k) When the signals </span><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRoman,Bold"; font-size: 12pt;">“N” </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 12pt;">or </span><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRoman,Bold"; font-size: 12pt;">“NO”</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 12pt;">, and </span><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRoman,Bold"; font-size: 12pt;">“RQ” </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 12pt;">are used to change an affirmative signal into a negative statement or into a question, respectively, they should be transmitted after the main signal. </span><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRoman,Italic"; font-size: 12pt;">Examples:<br /></span><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRoman,Bold"; font-size: 12pt;">“CY N” </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 12pt;">(or </span><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRoman,Bold"; font-size: 12pt;">“NO” </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 12pt;">as appropriate) = “(Boat(s) is(are) not coming to you.” </span><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRoman,Bold"; font-size: 12pt;">“CW RQ” </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 12pt;">= “Is boat/raft on board?”</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 12pt;">The signals </span><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRoman,Bold"; font-size: 12pt;">“C”</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 12pt;">, </span><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRoman,Bold"; font-size: 12pt;">“N” </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 12pt;">or </span><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRoman,Bold"; font-size: 12pt;">“NO”</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 12pt;">, and </span><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRoman,Bold"; font-size: 12pt;">“RQ” </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 12pt;">cannot be used in conjunction with single-letter signals.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 12pt;">The requirement for signalling by light at sea is as follows:-</span></p><p><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Please note that the STCW Code, Section A-II/1 states the mandatory minimum requirements for certification of officers in charge of a navigational watch on ships of 500 gross tonnage or more.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Every candidate for certification shall be required to demonstrate the competence to undertake, at the operational level, the tasks, duties, and responsibilities listed in column 1 of table A-II/1 of the STCW Code.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">One of those competence is to Transmit and Receive information by visual signalling.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">A knowledge, understanding and proficiency requires the ability to transmit and receive, by Morse light, distress signal SOS as specified in Annex IV of the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea, 1972, as amended, and appendix 1 of the International Code of Signals, and visual signalling of single letter signals as also specified in the International Code of Signals.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">MCA approved training Colleges for the HNC programme have also an MCA approved examiner for the signal’s exams.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">MCA Signal exam is split into 4 steps as follow:-<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><ul style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;" type="disc"><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Receive Morse by light – 20 letters. A group of letters and numbers is sent as a block.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Transmit Morse. Students must be able to transmit a block of Morse code – 10 letters.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Flags. Students to do a test on flags. Know what they are and their single letter meaning.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">General. 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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This cold snap was widely known as, "The Beast From The East". </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This tiny little stream which really only flows in wet weather sometimes freezes in winter. This can only happen when there's been recent rain combined with a strong northerly wind blowing in off the sea and below freezing air temperatures.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The last year this happened was 2010. Location is below Bottom House Farm, between Robin Hood's Bay and Hawsker Bottoms.</span></div>
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<br />David Perryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08820865982786898527noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2728764495395489914.post-66178555717943328692018-03-04T06:22:00.003+00:002018-03-04T06:24:13.283+00:00Ice Climbing on the North Yorkshire Moors 2018<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Beast From The East has brought winds of 50mph or more, stripping the snow off the fields and moors into large drifts. It also brought the temperatures down to around -4c...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Time to head up to Great Fryup Head. There are extensive ice falls at the head of the dale on the west, but there are also a small number of routes right at the head of the dale between Yew Grain Scar and the George Gap Causeway. NZ 715018. If snow permits it is possible to access these from the Cut Road path at Trough House to the west, or where it joins the Lealhom to Rosedale road at 729028. Alternately park at opposite the outdoor centre in Great Fryup Dale and walk up. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Just to the east of the George Gap Causeway are three or four routes. The one on the left is probably around 15 to 20 ft in height. Ice axes are on the ice. Probably grade III. There's an excellent belay at the top - a large wooden stake securing a game keepers trap.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The largest of the waterfalls is this longish slide which is probably around the 50ft mark, with an easy angled extension continuing out of view below. There's also a little bit of mixed climbing to the immediate left in the picture.. If you are walking in from the dale this is a pretty obvious feature.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Smear. This feature was the result of a change in stream drainage a few years ago. The brown stain is the result of it flowing off ironstone strata. I've often wondered if it would freeze up, but it obviously needs slightly colder temperatures than the -4c we've been having. However there's still enough for a little sport.</span>David Perryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08820865982786898527noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2728764495395489914.post-42731172289912417152017-06-21T15:39:00.001+01:002018-05-30T16:54:41.140+01:00Captain Walter Masterman CarterWalter Masterman Carter was born in Robin Hood's Bay, North Yorkshire in 1892.<br />
He joined the merchant navy around 1911, and by the following year was serving as a 3rd mate. By the time the 1st world war broke out he was serving as a 2nd mate.<br />
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He lived in Brook Cottage, Thorpe.<br />
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By 1915 he was serving as a temporary Sub Lt. in the Royal Naval Reserve.<br />
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On the 9th August 1916, he was appointed to commence duty as the Navigating Officer on board <a href="https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjoxpGQiM_UAhWOEVAKHeewD_AQjRwIBw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.naval-history.net%2FOWShips-WW1-11-HMS_Moth.htm&psig=AFQjCNHsf_MjuOgQzKFnek0CXV4dTxVuUw&ust=1498138813917035">HMS Moth</a>.<br />
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An account of the action he took part in on board HMS Moth can be found here:-<br />
<a href="http://www.naval-history.net/WW1Battle1408Mesopotamia.htm#29789">WW1Battle1408Mesopotamia.htm</a>. Suffice to say that whilst his ship and some others were proceeding up the river that they were fired on by the Turkish army. During this action the ship, a small gunboat, was hit 9 times and was badly damaged. 3 crew were killed.<br />
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Following this action he lost all his possessions and only had the binoculars he carried around his neck. I have these.<br />
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I have a letter from the Admiralty dated 8th May 1918 expressing their appreciation , "be conveyed to Lt. Walter M Carter of HMS Mistletoe, who was in charge of Lighter 171 for the good seamanship he displayed in bring his vessel safely into Peterhead".<br />
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I have his Continuous Certificate of Discharge (Discharge Book), from the merchant navy, several original admiralty documents and his Master Mariner Certificate, issued 12th May 1919 after he left the RNR where he returned to the merchant navy.<br />
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He died in 1929 on board his ship at Hartlepool after swallowing laudanum to help him sleep. His wife, my grandmother, Winifred (nee, Wedgwood) was with him at the time. <br />
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Read the .<a href="http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~stormrhb/masterman.html">press cutting</a> published following his death.<br />
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He and one of his brothers, Ernest Carter are buried at St Stephen's Church Robin Hood's Bay, Yorkshire. <br />
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He had three children. My mother Jeanne Carter, (Later Perry) and Freda Carter b 19.03.1922 & William (Bill) George Carter b 17 April 1919..David Perryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08820865982786898527noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2728764495395489914.post-6640576805149702442017-06-21T14:21:00.002+01:002021-12-18T11:33:34.780+00:00W E Wedgwood Chief Officer of the SS Copeswood<div class="_5pbx userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="js_18z" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.38;">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">On the 22 December 1916 my Great Grandfather, W E Wedgwood, a master mariner, was the Chief Officer on board the SS Copeswood in the North Sea when they sighted a Barque, dismasted and flying distress flags in horrendous seas. Unable to rescue the crew, they stood by during the night and eventually the next morning rescued the crew with exceptional difficulty. Both the captain (Albert Perrin) and WE Wedgwood received silver medals from His Majesty King Haakon of Norway. Bill Wedgwood has the medal and for some reason I have the citation. </span></div><div style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 6px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">He died at the Hare & Hounds in 1954 and is buried in plot 10246 Whitby Cemetery, Larpool Lane.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Captain William Edward Wedgwood b. 1873 sept 23rd- died 1954 Hare and Hounds Inn, Hawsker. Brother of Captain John Robert Wedgwood</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The citation given to Captain W E Wedgwood for his part in the rescue of the barque, <i>Lovspring</i> of Sandefjord</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">The wording is similar to that given to Captain A H Perrin.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">The Captain of the SS Copeswood was Captain Albert Hawkins Perrin and he was awarded this silver cup by King Haakon of Norway. My grandfather was awarded a medal and certificate which I have. He died in 1954 and lived at the Hare and; Hounds Inn, Hawsker, North Yorkshire</span></div>
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David Perryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08820865982786898527noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2728764495395489914.post-86567343867938051262017-06-21T14:05:00.001+01:002020-01-12T19:26:46.946+00:00Captain John R. Wedgwood & the Prinz Eitel Friedrich<div class="_5pbx userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="js_192" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.38;">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">On the 20 Feb 1915, My great uncle, Capt. John Robert Wedgwood of Whitby, was master of the SS Willerby off the coast of Brazil when his ship was approached by the Prinz Eitel Friedrich, a German auxillary cruiser which ordered the SS Willerby to stop. Capt Wedgwood ignored the order and tried to escape but eventually stopped when he realised the German ship was in a position to ram him. As the German passed astern of the SS Willerby, Capt Wedgwood realised he had to chance to ram the German!, Ordering the engines reversed at full speed he shouted to the engineer, "Giver her hell", "Give her hell as hard as we can go it!" </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">There is also a large article in the Whitby Gazette, 1st April 1915</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Captain Wedgwood owned a house at the far end of Mayfield Rd (4 Lane Ends) Whitby - He called it the Willerby after his ship. The house is still there.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">To find out what happened next , here is the link to the New York "Times, March 12th 1915:-</span></div>
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David Perryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08820865982786898527noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2728764495395489914.post-51863375214211086002017-06-18T21:51:00.002+01:002017-06-18T21:56:40.976+01:00Water Mills<span style="color: blue; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Over the years I must have passed hundreds, and hundreds of buildings like this and never thought about their origins. Just buildings with few, if any clues as to their original purpose. Then I bought " Eight Centuries of Milling in North East Yorkshire by John K. Harrison. There are over 150 recorded water mills in North East Yorkshire, and some were working until the 1970,s. Many have been demolished or turned into homes. But there are mills which still have all their machinery and are kept hidden and closed to the public. There is only one working mill open to the public in North East Yorkshire - Tockett's mill near Guisborough.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Unlike the windmills in North Yorkshire which are in exposed places and pretty obvious what they are, or were, water mills can be extremely well hidden, small and with no obvious signs of their purpose when viewed from outside. A few miles west of Northallerton this is Crayke Mill, and it still works and is sometimes open to the public. (<span style="background-color: white; color: #006621; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: nowrap;">crakehallwatermill.co.uk)</span> There are no working windmills in North Yorkshire. But there are just over ten watermills which still have all their original equipment. </span><br />
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David Perryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08820865982786898527noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2728764495395489914.post-78734548662753890882016-10-14T21:07:00.004+01:002016-10-14T21:07:58.410+01:00Three Excellent Films<a href="http://player.bfi.org.uk/film/watch-yorkshire-moors-1950/">Yorkshire Moors 1950</a> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">An amateur film about a family visit to Whitby showing the scenery along the way.</span><br />
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<a href="http://player.bfi.org.uk/film/watch-staithes-1959/">watch-staithes-1959</a> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> The title says it all - 1956!!</span><br />
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<a href="http://player.bfi.org.uk/film/watch-the-children-of-eskdale-1973/">The Children of Eskdale</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Filmed in Eskdale in the 1973 of a local farming community. I remember this being filmed..</span>David Perryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08820865982786898527noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2728764495395489914.post-15887908509737629052016-10-07T08:11:00.001+01:002018-01-03T10:00:46.593+00:00Verjuice Press<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Quite please with this discovery, I reported it to the national park archeology recorder and it turns out to be previously unreported. This is at the ruined farm, Grange Head SW of Egton Bdge. There is no public access.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">These presses (There are several in the Esk Valley I believe) were used to extract juice from fruit such as apples, etc., A large wood beam was wedged against an imovable object such as a tree root and the beam was pressed downwards crushing and squeezing the fruit. Not clear on this picture but there is a 'run off' channel on the far side of the square groove. I suspect the stone in the background was a part of the press as there are some remains of fixtures which I wouldn't normally associate with old yats or gate posts.</span></div>
David Perryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08820865982786898527noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2728764495395489914.post-48313928513450967342016-04-30T20:27:00.001+01:002016-10-04T19:49:48.434+01:00Another Whinstone House (Pickering)<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is the third house I've discovered made from locally sourced basalt/whinstone. This example and the smallest I've found so far is on the road out of Pickering to Newton-upon-Rawcliffe. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The other two houses are much bigger - Greytowers mansion in Nunthorpe and </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2728764495395489914#editor/target=post;postID=2889890947531783646;onPublishedMenu=allposts;onClosedMenu=allposts;postNum=4;src=postname">Undercliffe Hall</a><br />
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