Cod War
Created By ERIC BROWN Over a month ago
Icelandic Cod Wars
Icelandic Cod Wars
Fishing Grounds Dispute with Iceland 1976
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Ended up over the side with the midshipman, trying to reattach the sonar deflection plate, after getting rammed, middle of night in freezing NA weather LOL
The cod war I remember as if it was only yesterday. I had only just joined the Solebay on my first commission. As I recall if Thor, the Icelandic gun boat took three photos of a trawler it would take her to Iceland. This happened with one difference, Solebay got between Thor and the trawler. Our...
On Lynx if I recall correctly in 1974. Had a great vegetable throwing spree with one of the gunboats (Thor). Caused quite a storm at the time....great fun ....supply officer not too chuffed though! Had cod on every day, for every meal!
remember it well. WAS IN F.W.D P.OS,MESS WHEN THE CRUNCH CAME. ALSO THE CREW GUTTING THE FISH FOR SUPPER. MERRY XMASS,HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL I KNOW.
Was on HMS Zest during the Cod War days. Was SRE operator and had quiz hours with the British fishing fleet. One trawler had engine trouble and an Engine Room Artificer had to be hauled over in a dingy (must have been hairy for him) No calm days up in that part of the world !!At one time our...
Was on Yarmouth in the "Rubber Duck" days and the ramming of the Balder............great skipper at the time.
Served in first cod war (6 mile limit) on HMS HOGUE>
Did one of the very first cod wars back in 1958 on the Eastbourne, We had some very hairy ,moments at times trying to stop the iceland gunboats cutting the warps on our trawlers gear and the like! the gun boats at the time namely the" Marie Julie" also " Thor". Happy days were had by all? Ps,...
Did 2 Cod war patrols in the mid-70s on the Juno and a lively old time it was too. Received a gash down the ships side from a "collision" (read: ramming) with the Icelandic boat Tyr which opened up our messdeck (3F) bulkhead like a sardine tin. We were the senior ship of the patrol group (Capt F4),...
splendid ship the Whitby, ref playing cat and mouse with gun boats, our skipper Peter Dickens DSO MBE DSC caused an international incident when we were there, a Gun Boat came too close so he put a 40 mm Bofors across his bows, those Gun boats can get a shift on when this happened !!!