Finally watching the notorious "North Sea Hijack" (1980). The Captain in battle dress (!) just introduced James Mason's Admiral as an Admiral of the Fleet.
@simonharley Takes me back to my days with RFA on the Sir Boats, did that once prior to a dry dock but not at that speed, on a beach that had been surveyed within an inch of its life. Oh and it was planned 🙃
@SuzieWo20886208 Thank God for photographers like Tish Murtha to remind us what it was really like for a lot of us. This was my early 80’s in Newcastle with a youth unemployment rate of 30/35%
@EmmaLewell 3 days to install a pollution boom around the ship is unbelievable, I’ve been in the Merchant Navy for 46 years and of course accidents happen but the delay in fitting a boom is mind boggling.