It has been a bad couple of weeks for Simon, culminating in the
loss of his dog Molly. She was about 14, although as he rescued her (Battersea
Dogs’ Home), her exact age was uncertain. His laptop also bit the dust. It
never rains……
Meanwhile he hopes
to see a very confident wet-blaster, who declares that he can overcome any
problem to get below decks cleaned up. I
hope that does not mean that he expects Simon to pay ‘whatever it takes’!!
More history. The Andrew N. Thomas I spoke of
last time, joined Arnold Swanson and John Thompson on the "Voice of
Slough" project. At that time Thompson had a small boat called
'Ellen' in Scotland. Then Swanson broke away - with Andrew N.
Thomas - and set up Adanac using Lady Dixon and a former WWII 'N' series
5kW transmitter as later used by BBC Third Programme. This venture crashed
with the 'invasion' of the GPO who confiscated all the radio equipment. That was
the end of the Lady Dixon’s pirate radio career. I have not yet ascertained what she looked
like at this stage in her life, but 30 years later she still had her mizzen and
was painted bright red – not to be confused with the red of Trinity House
lightships (Photo 1381).
Incidentally, I do wonder why Irish Lights insisted in
painting their lightships black – not a colour easily seen on a dark, foggy
night!!
David
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