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Hello Everyone, This is the first time I have posted. When I read the previous posts about weather ships it reminded me of my time at Culdrose when Commander Morgan or Commander Jenkins (memory of names sometimes fails) initiated long range forecasting, which meant two wrens twiddled the pens to plot a chart, which extended from the Americas across the Atlantic to include Europe and Russia and southwards to much of Africa. Of course, information from the weather ships in the Atlantic was also plotted. Atlantic. |
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Johnny Whitfield
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I did not Moonlight at Debenhams but did a stint at Cheesemans Lewishams. |
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Too easy Ray - I have a W11 handbook (sadly doesn't have the ww code but I do remember most of it) SO I submit my answer using the commercial code Debenhams used to price their garments to the trade wholesale (where many of us AFS metobs moonlighted under Chris Holmes (nat service met obs)up by the Post Office Tower in the early/mid '60's) The code was a ten letter word without repitition (1 to 0)- widley used in the Navy (RAMROD Code) as a short lived code - CORNFLAKES is a good example (there are thousands)(does not have to be a single word - but in this case it is). So herewith a RAMROD of the OWS positions - India was at O A North and M A West.(note the simplicity of numerials so has to be at a 'corner' (i.e no minutes in Lat/Long) Juliet was at O E T A North and E L West We know they were in the eastern Atlantic - so look at the likely repetitions of numerals/letters. Glass of wine might help. |
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Johnny Whitfield
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ROUGH IDEA OF LOCATION OF The rest I will have to search for. |
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Ray Brooker
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You are one lucky man - all I ever got was OWS India and OWS Juliet sailing from Greenock for a month on station, wallowing in the same position at sea. Converted Castle Class Corvettes; not an easy ride! But can you remember the actual Latitude and Longtitude of them both - and also OWS Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, Delta and Kilo? A free mince pie to anyone who can correctly remember them all (to be collected from Somerset) |
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Just read the Headline Merry Christmas to All. |
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Johnny Whitfield
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SORRY FINGER TROUBLE, SHOULD BE BEST. |
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Johnny Whitfield
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YEP IT IS 05, BET MET INSTRUCTOR I EVER KNEW WAS PETE ROSSINGTON, EVEN BEFORE HE BECAME PO. |
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Johnnie - as a Met School Instructor, the answer was to keep 24 hours ahead of your pupils i.e. just swot up on tomorrow's lesson today. Not sure if I got the ww codes right, as I meant 45 as being thick fog, 13 as a bolt of lightning, and 04 as a bit of a haze (think that might have been 05) |
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Cheers Ken, I had looked through the mountain of information through the channels you suggested, had tried it before,but got a bit confused with a lot of repetitions, however after the codes for Thunderstorms such as 95 I did find a code for a Tornado of 99 this seemed part of a 7 group reporting present an past weather, it did say something about reporting from a Automatic reporting Station. of course trying to waken the grey cells I may be confused. |
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