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Hope your birthday goes/went well (I get confused with the time shifts!!). May the next year be better than the last.
Ros

Pioneer also gives bearings on Rocky Reef, I think this may be Rocky Reef Point which is an Alternate Name for Laida Rocks on Geonames but not in the database.
https://www.geonames.org/5867059/laida-rocks.html

Pioneer reports a lighthouse on Black Rock (no 1 on the database), verified in this link.
https://www.ibiblio.org/lighthouse/ak.htm

Especially for those who worked on the WW1 RN ships but others may be interested too.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c289n4gkrvko

May we never forget.

Great, I've changed the link on my transcription. But, Matteo, yet another Pioneer reference for the database.
Thanks.

Back to Pioneer. She references a Course Point which I have tracked down via Mapcarta

https://mapcarta.com/24065602

This entry includes a geonames number which I'm not sure how to use as a search term. I'm sure you do!!

I think Geonames should give you a medal, the number of obscure sites you have located and added to their database. Thanks.

Pioneer also references Kynumpt Harbor Gas Buoy, well I haven't located the gas buoy but the harbour is at Lat 52.21, Long -128.17 https://www.geonames.org/5994714/kynumpt-harbour.html Later on she references Idol Point Light. Well Idol Point is referenced below https://www.geonames.org/5979321/idol...

"Northland" has anchored in Mobjack Bay which turns out to be off Chesapeake Bay at Lat 37.27, Long -76.30
It's on geonames but not the db
https://www.geonames.org/4773551/mobjack-bay.html

Part of the East coast gradually being lost to the North Sea. Spurn Point is gradually being lost, you can no longer drive to the lighthouse except in an all terrain military vehicle and this flourishing medieval port was in that general vicinity. No doubt climate change will accelerate the process....

Thanks. I'm not sure you'll be relieved but my next ship is on the East Coast!!

Trying to sort out problems in Pioneer's transcription and was trying to locate Wooden Island Light. A somewhat confusing entry in the pilot guide may assist you to locate it (probably labelled Cape Ommaney Light!). The entry in the pilot guide refers to a clutch of other lights some of which don't ...

There is a light on Walker Island (Camp Island) in Lama Passage
https://waves-vagues.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/libr ... 115910.pdf
The reference is on page 1-25, since there seems no way of locating that page via a designated page in the weblink.

Point Fermin Lighted Whistle buoy is referenced by Pioneer. This link should give a more precise location
https://danapointboaters.org/documents/ ... hanges.pdf

I just asked to find Fermin and up it popped together with the lighthouse etc.

A simple one this time. Pioneer references Valley Anchorage, Santa Cruz Island which is on geonames but not the database.

https://www.geonames.org/5405412/valley-anchorage.html

Some of the non-metric units were more intuitive e.g. 1 angstrom is more or less the diameter of a hydrogen atom, a yard is roughly the distance from a man's nose to the end of his fingers (useful for long bow archers or people measuring cloth). Being a fairly small woman by today's standards I have...

I'm editing a Coast Guard ship at the moment and she has just enlisted a WO 1st class. As a Brit I immediately thought Warrant Officer but the US Navy doesn't seem to have them, However, it seems the Coast Guard do and since we are editing more coast gruard and revenue service ships now could we add...

Thanks Matteo, I hope someone other than editors appreciates the efforts you are making.

Thanks very much Michael. I've put a to the map, anyone who really wants to know can consult it and see the site which is clearly marked.

I'm afraid Pioneer is at it again, she refers to Point Vincent's buoy at 8.58pm on the way in to San Pedro harbor. https://catalog.archives.gov/id/247055604?objectPage=23 I can't find any references to the buoy having tried various combinations of Pt, Point, Vincent, Vicente, Vincente etc. Any help ...