navaleye - thanks so much for that. 6.7 miles is quite close to 5 so I am happy that I am not totally bonkers! Keep the facts coming.
PS - could you email me the powerpoint thingy, as the background being dark blue and a bit fuzzy it is quite difficult to interpret.
This is quite a bizzare footnote that makes the hairs stand up!!
"An interesting footnote - when we were married in 1966 an old friend who had given us a very nice present for our wedding thought that it was insufficient and took me into his attic to rummage through the junk to find something else. He did and in 1982 the only picture of a ship that had hung in our house for all those years was a picture that he found in the attic – HMS Alacrity . An old watercolour of her when she was an Admirals yacht in the Far East"
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