Exchange of Emails with Tony White 2 May 2016
I coasted with A R Cossar on the Matheson, which was probably in 59, so although officially retired, he came back to do the odd coastal voyage.
He was quite a character, we left the Mersey in tandem with a faster Blue Flu for Glasgow, and he was determined to be there ahead of her, which we achieved by cutting corners!
Off the South Wales coast he wanted to give a friendly wave to the crew of the light vessel, which I think must have been the Helwick off Worms Head. It was mid afternoon on a bright sunny day in flat calm conditions -- the crew were not amused!!! Today that would have been the subject of a Chirp report.
Very little phased him from what I can recall.
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What were you doing off the South Wales coast if you were on passage from Mersey to Glasgow?
Or was that later from Glasgow to Avonmouth?
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Always good at navigation!!
Yes South Wales was the following leg after Glasgow most probably to load tin plate in Cardiff - Swansea or Newport before return to Birkenhead.
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