Not authoritive; but I know what I read with my own eyes. I've mentioned this before, but to recap... In 1978 or thereabouts, BP were exploring likely spots in the S Atlantic and published a report on their finding in about 1980. They said there were fucking hyoooogee oil deposits round about the Falklands (funnily enough, mostly within a radius of about 200nm, if memory serves) but that it wasn't recoverable with current North Sea technology. In another 20 or 30 years time, things might be different. That's it. -- Dave GS 850 x2 / SE 6a SbS#6 DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#6 FUB#3 FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19
There's another thing; given the decline of the British Merchant fleet, it's been impossible for the past ten years or so for a similar number of mercantile vessels to be rustled up in support should the need arise again. -- Dave GS 850 x2 / SE 6a SbS#6 DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#6 FUB#3 FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19
You've been influenced too much by some Lancastrian -- Tim two#21, YGL#3 & BOTAFOT#84 Due to the limitations of current email, the lip movements may be out of synchronisation as you move your finger under the text while reading. tim dot ukrm2 at dsl dot pipex dot com
Well I think that this sub-thread started when I questioned if, after the conflict started did the French continued to supply support to the Argentinians. If the answer's yes then I feel this action was pretty despicable since we are both supposed to be partners in the EC.
You put it so much better than I did. -- Tim two#21, YGL#3 & BOTAFOT#84 Due to the limitations of current email, the lip movements may be out of synchronisation as you move your finger under the text while reading. tim dot ukrm2 at dsl dot pipex dot com
You mean foreign-owned vessels flagged in Britain? That would surely fly against the whole point of 'flag of convenience'? I'm not in possession of the facts (since when did that matter), but I'd think there wouldn't be many of them. British owned vessels flagged out to Liberia or somewhere similar would probably be numerous enough, but if HMG started requisitioning them, I can see various legal shit hitting fan. -- Dave GS 850 x2 / SE 6a SbS#6 DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#6 FUB#3 FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19
Even at Rorke's Drift, there were more than eight. Now if Stanley Baker and Michael Caine had been in Port Stanley, things might have been very different. -- Dave GS 850 x2 / SE 6a SbS#6 DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#6 FUB#3 FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19
Fair enough; the French are a bunch of cheese-eating surrender monkeys who could only fight their way out of one paper bag in ten. If it was wet. And looking the other way. And smaller than them. -- | ___ Salad Dodger |/ \ _/_____\_ GL1500SEV/CBR1100XXX/KH500A8/TS250C |_\_____/_| ..62661../..14297.../..3157./.19406 (>|_|_|<) TPPFATUICG#7 DIAABTCOD#9 YTC#4 PM#5 |__|_|__| BOTAFOT #70 BOTAFOF #09 two#11 WG* \ |^| / IbW#0 & KotIbW# BotTOS#6 GP#4 \|^|/ ANORAK#17 '^'
But not, I suggest, sinking warships. -- | ___ Salad Dodger |/ \ _/_____\_ GL1500SEV/CBR1100XXX/KH500A8/TS250C |_\_____/_| ..62661../..14297.../..3157./.19406 (>|_|_|<) TPPFATUICG#7 DIAABTCOD#9 YTC#4 PM#5 |__|_|__| BOTAFOT #70 BOTAFOF #09 two#11 WG* \ |^| / IbW#0 & KotIbW# BotTOS#6 GP#4 \|^|/ ANORAK#17 '^'
It's their stationary SONAR network that does that, innit? -- | ___ Salad Dodger |/ \ _/_____\_ GL1500SEV/CBR1100XXX/KH500A8/TS250C |_\_____/_| ..62661../..14297.../..3157./.19406 (>|_|_|<) TPPFATUICG#7 DIAABTCOD#9 YTC#4 PM#5 |__|_|__| BOTAFOT #70 BOTAFOF #09 two#11 WG* \ |^| / IbW#0 & KotIbW# BotTOS#6 GP#4 \|^|/ ANORAK#17 '^'
Perhaps we could hand Gib over when the Spaniards hand over Cueta and Mellilla, etc. to the Moroccans -- | ___ Salad Dodger |/ \ _/_____\_ GL1500SEV/CBR1100XXX/KH500A8/TS250C |_\_____/_| ..62661../..14297.../..3157./.19406 (>|_|_|<) TPPFATUICG#7 DIAABTCOD#9 YTC#4 PM#5 |__|_|__| BOTAFOT #70 BOTAFOF #09 two#11 WG* \ |^| / IbW#0 & KotIbW# BotTOS#6 GP#4 \|^|/ ANORAK#17 '^'
