And, I have four of them. Making a blog entry takes a considerable amount of time because I have to be looking at the keyboard and I use just two fingers. Then, there's the research for articles, editing and writing them down, then, the inevitable side trips. Then, with the Internet, there is a Wiki trip then search.
Here's an example of what happened yesterday.
A big new story is the discovery of the SS Gairsoppa off the Irish coast and the many tons of silver on board which is where I started. I put together the story of the ship, sunk by a U-boat in 1941, from several sources.
One of them had a link to an article about the truth of the sinking of the Titanic. That one proved interesting, and off I went. A British novelist claims that the ship sank because of a mix up in the engine room as to which way to turn after the iceberg was spotted. Her grandfather was the Second Officer on the ship and told her.
He survived the sinking and later was on the Oceanic when it sank. During World War I, he commanded the HMS Falcon which had a collision with a trawler and sank. Then, he commanded the HMS Garry when it rammed and sank the German U-boat 110. There is some confusion, but it appears the Garry sank after the ramming.
Then there was research on the Falcon and the Garry. Before the Titanic, he had also been on a ship that sank. Was Lightoller the Thomas O. Selfridge, Jr., of the 20th century?
Today, I spent an hour on the story of the Gairsoppa and its only survivor, Richard Ayers. Then there was a link which led to the discovery of the wrecks of two LCTs sunk during D-Day (one capsized and the other was rammed by a British battleship).
No wonder it takes so long to do these blogs.
That's Why. --DaCoot
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