Originally Posted by
ExRAFRadar
The rumour was that the Red Menace had a trawler sat on the Solway Firth not doing much fishing.
That would be the Malin Head AGI. Usually it was north of the channel and updated by us or marked by the RN. Occasionally, when unmarked, it would slip in to the Irish Sea.
One day we were tasked to locate her. We went down the channel, radar off, switched on for 3 sweeps, and the lead dry on radar marked some 50 contacts. We then set off for the one he thought was the AGI and checked two hookers on the way. The AGI was the third vessel!
In those days they were as likely checking out Eskmeals as Spade.