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"Rude, Rude, Rude

This is Dinghy "Windup"

Presently embarrassing your course and  becalmed..

Requesting your assistance..

Rude, Rude, Rude,

This is Windup

Over.."





> ** Original Subject: QE2 grounding (was: Mercator vs. Great Circle)
> ** Original Sender: "Richard B. Emerson" 
> ** Original Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 03:29:47 +0100

> ** Original Message follows...

>
> Rodney's right, the QE2 grounding was not a GPS error or trusting to
> (incorrect) instruments.  Also, it's the "Rude" (actually the [Given
> name something] Rude, pronounced "Roody" as I found when I spoke her
> last summer off Block Island).  I think the ship's named after a
> geographer or oceanographer but I wouldn't care to bet on that.
>
> Rick
> S/V One With The Wind, Baba 35
>
> Smith_Peter@EMC.COM writes:
>  > Rodney Myrvaagnes [mailto:rodneym@ATTGLOBAL.NET] said:
>  > > Please, Rick. You larger point is well taken, but you are confusing
>  > > the QE2 with other vessels that did what you said. The QE2 was
>  > > another problem entirely.
>  > >
>  > > The one that grounded off Nantucket was doing automatic ded reckoning
>  > > almost all the way from Bermuda, because nobody looked at the computer.
>  > > I feel pretty sure it started blinking as soon as the GPS > became
>  > disconnected.
>  >
>  > Actually, I think Rodney is thinking of the _Royal Majesty_ which went
>  > aground on the Nantucket Shoals in June 1995 due to an unnoticed GPS
>  > failure.
>  >
>  > The _QE2_ nicked the ground in August 1992 near Sow and Pigs Reef at
>  > the entrance of Vineyard Sound (west of Martha's Vineyard which is west
>  > of Nantucket). What made it worse was that they knew exactly where
>  > they were and overruled the local pilot. The pilot suggested a course
>  > that kept them in deep water, but the captain was trying to make up
>  > time and chose to cut the corner, believing the charted depth (39 feet
>  > from the 1939 survey) to be sufficient (_QE2_ draws 32 feet).
>  >
>  > After the incident, the US Coast Guard dispatched the survey vessel
>  > _RULE_ to re-survey the area. In keeping with current practice, the
>  > rock they found (with the QE2's bottom paint on it) was provisionally
>  > named "Rule's Ledge", but locals are lobbying to get it named "The
>  > Queen's Bottom".
>  >
>  >  -- Peter

>** --------- End Original Message ----------- **

>

John Germain
Jersey
British Channel Islands

   

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