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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Between 0900 G M T and 0920 GMT on 26 June 1979, contact was lost with the 58-ft Buckie fishing boat Curinthia and its sixman crew when the vessel was in the very exposed area 25 miles north-west of Orkney. A t 0900 GMT the vessel reported that she was battling out a force eight gale and heavy seas, then silence. The current weather chart showed tightly packed isobars in this area between a depression of 990 m b north of Shetland and a ridge of high pressure with its axis just west o the British Isles. Huge seas built f up by the west to north-west gale (or severe gale) coupled with the 10116 Atlantic fetch probably overwhelmed the Curinthia before a distress message could be put out. Further important information about the severity o the storm in the northern f North Sea which overwhelmed the trawler Turradule I1 (see Wearher, 34 (8), p. 331) was given by Portknockie skipper George Skene at a Board of Trade inquiry at Aberdeen on 23 March 1979. H e told of a freak storm that blew u p about midnight on 2 February 1979. Winds were storm force 10 and http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Weather Wiley

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Weather , Volume 35 (2) – Feb 1, 1980
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Publisher
Wiley
Copyright
1980 Royal Meteorological Society
ISSN
0043-1656
eISSN
1477-8696
DOI
10.1002/j.1477-8696.1980.tb03490.x
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Abstract

Between 0900 G M T and 0920 GMT on 26 June 1979, contact was lost with the 58-ft Buckie fishing boat Curinthia and its sixman crew when the vessel was in the very exposed area 25 miles north-west of Orkney. A t 0900 GMT the vessel reported that she was battling out a force eight gale and heavy seas, then silence. The current weather chart showed tightly packed isobars in this area between a depression of 990 m b north of Shetland and a ridge of high pressure with its axis just west o the British Isles. Huge seas built f up by the west to north-west gale (or severe gale) coupled with the 10116 Atlantic fetch probably overwhelmed the Curinthia before a distress message could be put out. Further important information about the severity o the storm in the northern f North Sea which overwhelmed the trawler Turradule I1 (see Wearher, 34 (8), p. 331) was given by Portknockie skipper George Skene at a Board of Trade inquiry at Aberdeen on 23 March 1979. H e told of a freak storm that blew u p about midnight on 2 February 1979. Winds were storm force 10 and

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Weather – Wiley

Published: Feb 1, 1980

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