Roches Point Picture

[greg robertson]

I know this had been mentioned in previous Threads but I couldnt locate it.
I have enlarged this picture so show that the dot atop the fourth funnel is, indeed that of a stoker - I am convinced!

 

[greg robertson]

From the same picture, I had to enlarge her nameplates for some of you who didnt believe she had them - They are so clear in this picture:

 

[Martin Owen Cahill]

Yes that IS a stoker and Lawrence Beesley wrote about the incident and the "arrant foolishness"(1) that accompanied the event in the superticious minds of some that saw it.

Martin

1 quoted from pp. 29-30, Beesley, Nautilus Library 1929 ed.