You may have seen this site about ocean weather ships which I came back across by chance and was new to me.

http://www.weatherships.co.uk/index.htm

I've had that one for a while. Still brings back memories though!

On 10/08/2015 07:43, xmetman wrote:
You may have seen this site about ocean weather ships which I came back across by chance and was new to me.

http://www.weatherships.co.uk/index.htm

I was amazed at how many I knew - and that some of them I knew well and
didn't know they had been on weather ships!

On Sun, 9 Aug 2015 23:43:36 -0700 (PDT), xmetman
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You may have seen this site about ocean weather ships which I came back across by chance and was new to me.

http://www.weatherships.co.uk/index.htm

Very interesting, hanks lfor posting

Jeff

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On Tuesday, 11 August 2015 08:15:43 UTC+1, Jeff wrote:
On Sun, 9 Aug 2015 23:43:36 -0700 (PDT), xmetman
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You may have seen this site about ocean weather ships which I came back across by chance and was new to me.

http://www.weatherships.co.uk/index.htm

Very interesting, hanks lfor posting

Jeff

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I always fancied a posting to Weather Ships, but after watching the last episode of the "Atlantic: The Wildest Ocean On Earth" and see how those trawlers were being tossed about, I think I probably made the right decision to remain on Terra Firma!

On Tue, 11 Aug 2015 02:40:50 -0700 (PDT)
xmetman wrote:

On Tuesday, 11 August 2015 08:15:43 UTC+1, Jeff wrote:
On Sun, 9 Aug 2015 23:43:36 -0700 (PDT), xmetman
wrote:

You may have seen this site about ocean weather ships which I came
back across by chance and was new to me.

http://www.weatherships.co.uk/index.htm

Very interesting, hanks lfor posting

I always fancied a posting to Weather Ships, but after watching the
last episode of the "Atlantic: The Wildest Ocean On Earth" and see
how those trawlers were being tossed about, I think I probably made
the right decision to remain on Terra Firma!

I agree. As to what's beneath my feet, the Firma it is, the less the
Terra.

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I did three years on weather ships in the late sixties to early seventies, on the Weather Surveyor. It's perhaps selective memory but I don't remember being overly perturbed by bad weather. It had to be really bad to curtail activities when the captain wouldn't allow anyone on deck so no sonde launching.

On 11/08/2015 08:15, Jeff wrote:
On Sun, 9 Aug 2015 23:43:36 -0700 (PDT), xmetman
wrote:

You may have seen this site about ocean weather ships which I came back across by chance and was new to me.

http://www.weatherships.co.uk/index.htm

Very interesting, hanks lfor posting

Jeff

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The site has some of my photos from a student trip on Reporter in 1973
(with permission). The full set at:
http://daveoffiler.uk/gallery Ocean Weather Ship
Out of the Clyde straight into a Force 9, calm for 3 weeks on station &
back in a Force 8 (and this in August!)

Dave