From: Nick Pope <nick.nul>
Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 20:57:22 +0100
Fwd Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 17:07:55 -0400
Subject: Re: Ship's Logs? - Pope


>From: Terry W. Colvin <fortean1.nul>
>To: ufoupdates.nul
>Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 14:21:12 -0700
>Subject: Ship's Logs?

>From: Peter Hassall <stunts.nul>
>To: forteana.nul
>Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 16:58:50 +1200
>Subj: [forteana] Ship's logs?

>Does anybody know of any (preferably online) depository of
>ship's logs? Or a physical storage place where requests can be
>made?

>I am hoping to locate a copy of the log entry for the date of
>the Llandovery castle sighting of a huge UFO. But this research
>request could apply to other UFO, USO, sea monster,and similar
>fortean events. Getting copies of the original logs for relevant
>sighting dates could show if some cases were media/literary
>hoaxes (e.g. no entry at all in the original log) and/or give
>more detailed information on a case.

Deck/Fair Logs for Royal Navy ships are kept, and if you're
researching a UFO-related incident involving an RN vessel, you
should contact the Ministry of Defence's UFO Project and make a
request under the Freedom of Information Act. As with all FOIA
requests, it should be as tightly focused as possible, giving
the name of the ship concerned, and giving as narrow a window of
dates as you can.

I don't think this will help with the Llandovery Castle, as
she'd apparently been decommissioned by the time of the alleged
UFO incident:

http://www.merchantnavyofficers.com/unioncastle3.html

http://www.red-duster.co.uk/UNION17.htm

You'll have to contact the commercial operators:

http://www.union-castle-line.com/


Best wishes,

Nick Pope