Helen J wrote:Wed Jan 18, 2012 8:42 pm Just had to share this from my current OW reading (which some of you may have heard of by now!), Julian Thompson's Imperial War Museum Book of the War at Sea 1914-18. He's writing about the Northern Patrol, and the checking of ships for contraband. He answers one of my questions about what information captains had, with mention of the War Trade Intelligence Department, established in January 1915, which collated all the information and intelligence about enemy trading activities, and could supply up to date information about every firm mentioned in a ship's papers.
He also mentions the ingenuity of the ships carrying contraband, which was 'carried in hollow masts, double decks and bulkheads, and even rubber onions. This last only discovered by an onion bouncing on the deck.'
Sadly he doesn't say what kind of contraband could be concealed in a rubber onion - we'll just have to use our imaginations ... ???
Bunting Tosser wrote:Thu Jan 19, 2012 1:26 pmthursdaynext wrote:Thu Jan 19, 2012 12:05 pmI'd agree with Bunts on this. I'm sure rubber was on the list of contraband (per that well-known promoter of gender equality, E Keble Chatterton).Bunting Tosser wrote:Wed Jan 18, 2012 9:51 pm Might it have been rubber, itself? Needed for vehicle tyres for the war effort.
;D
He keeps on bouncing back, doesn't he?
The rubber onion episode blew me away - something I could never have dreamt up 
Yes.
This is invalid because you already took your turn for this round (things got a little confused earlier because someone claimed to have started a round when they actually hadn't).pommystuart wrote: ↑Sun Jun 12, 2022 9:09 pm I think I can go now Michael has had his turn.
Double 3 takes me from CCE to Oh dear, Scapa Flow. Michael gets M50.
Next throw is 1 and 4 off to Navel Fines I go. M220 for passing Go goes to pay my fine.
