Quote: mike wrote in post #40

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I dont understand about depth and how much the Ross would need but somewhere like Southend would be much more of an advantage to the group who are working on her.
Gravesend is out the way and not on the tourist map its also not as easy to get to from London compared to places in Essex.
Being at a place like Southend they could turn it into a radio museum or some other attraction. 1000s of people each day travel to Southend in the summer and a small fortune could be made to keep the Ross afloat.

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Ross Revence ??

Have just thought of course, if the ground IS mud, then it's not a good idea to try to go walking on it as you'd get stuck and that is where the Coastguard would have to come and assist by using our specialist Mud Teams. Much better to suspend yourself on a bosuns chair over the side of the ship to avoid this.

No, the end of Southend Pier does not "dry out" which is why the Southend RNLI Inshore Lifeboat is stationed there.

Quote: alec wrote in post #42

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Ross Revence ??

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Dunno if this works: http://www.visitmyharbour.com/harbours/t...leet-chart-2012

It does, but you have to zoom in a bit and scroll to the top right hand of the chart to where it says Southend Flat.

You're welcome Mike.

Mariners charts have such a great deal of info on them including, though not shown on that one, the nature of the sea bed at a given point and any sunken wrecks etc, so that the Captain of a ship can tell if it's safe to anchor or where the nearest Pilotage point is, if there's any sunken wrecks, etc. (I may have failed my Watch Officer exams, but I did learn something! )

If you look by the end of the pier you'll see a large 7 with a smaller 3 alongside it, this denotes that there is at least a depth of 7.3 metres of water there at any given time, probably more. If you look at the white area on the chart, you'll see depths of 14.1, 12.8, 11.3, etc that is a much deeper area.

Hi Mike.

The pier was probably built that length so that people can get out onto the sea at whatever state of the tide.

There is an R.N.L.I Station at the end of the pier not a Coastguard Station. (We are not the same people! We take the Mayday then request the launch of the Lifeboat. The Lifeboat CAN, and have, refuse to launch if they consider things too dangerous.) I don't know when the R.N.L.I. station was placed there.

What does "R.N.L.I. station" exactly mean ? - you always use abreviations that non-British might not understand ..................

Sorry. R.N.L.I stands for the Royal National Lifeboat Institute which is a charitable body and they own the Lifeboats which go out and save peoples lives whereas H.M.C.G. (or Her Majesty's Coastguard) are a Government Agency.

Quote: coastie wrote in post #54

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Sorry. R.N.L.I stands for the Royal National Lifeboat Institute which is a charitable body and they own the Lifeboats which go out and save peoples lives whereas H.M.C.G. (or Her Majesty's Coastguard) are a Government Agency.

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You're welcome, a lot of people make that mistake.

http://www.southendlifeboat.org/atlantic.html