SOURCES: Atlas Obscura article: www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-great-welsh-amelia-earhart-controversy-carmarthenshire-wales West Wales Chronicle article: www.westwaleschronicle.co.uk/blog/2018/09/11/amelia-earhart-a-flight-into-welsh-history-by-local-author-and-historian-philip-thomas/
I like how you feel like you can bring us a cool story like this almost reminiscent of a Tom Scott video or something and don't feel pressured into just covering international relations and stuff
Nice little documentary. Thank you for a nice shout out to our community! As a local, I might try to clarify a few things. No one is sure where the Friendship actually landed, but it was probably a mile or two offshore from both towns in the middle of the Burry estuary/inlet (those are the correct terms for the that body of water and not the Lougher estuary sorry). The crew identified Burry Port harbour as the ideal place to aim for, if they had to come ashore. But they didn't have plans to come ashore at all at this point, as far as they were concerned, the best option was to stay offshore, get refuelled and continue on their way to Southampton, but they needed somewhere to moor until they could get someone ashore, in this case Wilmer Stultz (Pilot), to get the message to Southampton that they had succeeded and to tell the expedition organisers where they were. Stultz manoeuvred the Friendship on the water to Buoy no.7 some 200 meters off the coast of Pwll, ( a village about a mile and half from Burry Port) . Locals from Burry Port rowed Stultz back the the Frickers metal works in Burry Port where he let Southampton know the news. The Friendship stayed moored off Pwll for hours until Hilton Railey (one of the organisers in Southampton) was able to fly from Southampton to Burry Port and tell the crew that they should come ashore and stay for the night. The assertion that the Friendship landed at Pwll is, in my opinion, incorrect, but they did initially moor near there. But the denizens of Pwll can rest easy at night knowing that it didn't land at Burry Port either (imho), but they did come ashore there. I've made a short video where I've gathered as many photos and film from that day, starting with stills of the Friendship moored off Pwll. I've colourised photos and upscaled the film to HD. I hope you enjoy. ruclips.net/video/0QKyLW2quFc/видео.html Ceri John, Burry Port
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SOURCES:
Atlas Obscura article: www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-great-welsh-amelia-earhart-controversy-carmarthenshire-wales
West Wales Chronicle article: www.westwaleschronicle.co.uk/blog/2018/09/11/amelia-earhart-a-flight-into-welsh-history-by-local-author-and-historian-philip-thomas/
I like how you feel like you can bring us a cool story like this almost reminiscent of a Tom Scott video or something and don't feel pressured into just covering international relations and stuff
Thanks! I was in South Wales for a few days and learned this story and just thought it was interesting!
Nice little documentary. Thank you for a nice shout out to our community! As a local, I might try to clarify a few things. No one is sure where the Friendship actually landed, but it was probably a mile or two offshore from both towns in the middle of the Burry estuary/inlet (those are the correct terms for the that body of water and not the Lougher estuary sorry). The crew identified Burry Port harbour as the ideal place to aim for, if they had to come ashore. But they didn't have plans to come ashore at all at this point, as far as they were concerned, the best option was to stay offshore, get refuelled and continue on their way to Southampton, but they needed somewhere to moor until they could get someone ashore, in this case Wilmer Stultz (Pilot), to get the message to Southampton that they had succeeded and to tell the expedition organisers where they were. Stultz manoeuvred the Friendship on the water to Buoy no.7 some 200 meters off the coast of Pwll, ( a village about a mile and half from Burry Port) . Locals from Burry Port rowed Stultz back the the Frickers metal works in Burry Port where he let Southampton know the news. The Friendship stayed moored off Pwll for hours until Hilton Railey (one of the organisers in Southampton) was able to fly from Southampton to Burry Port and tell the crew that they should come ashore and stay for the night. The assertion that the Friendship landed at Pwll is, in my opinion, incorrect, but they did initially moor near there. But the denizens of Pwll can rest easy at night knowing that it didn't land at Burry Port either (imho), but they did come ashore there. I've made a short video where I've gathered as many photos and film from that day, starting with stills of the Friendship moored off Pwll. I've colourised photos and upscaled the film to HD. I hope you enjoy. ruclips.net/video/0QKyLW2quFc/видео.html Ceri John, Burry Port
Wow, thanks so much for all of this extra information! I'm just traveling at the moment but I'll watch your video as soon as I'm able to! 😀
You're honestly the most underrated RUclipsr I know about. It still surprises me how few subscribers you have.
Thank you! I feel like 5K is a lot of subscribers now, but I know what you mean. Thanks so much!
Very interesting video!
Thank you!
this is so cool Mr Rockwell
Glad you like it! A bit of a departure for me, but I'll be back with more geopolitics in the next video!