[BITList] Fwd: Captain of the Titanic 'failed navigation test' -Telegraph

[HUGH]

Mike,

The only news considered fit to print at the moment concerns royal 
striptease and other such photos. And, as you say, what's newsworthy about 
some ancient exam subject?

The whole article is based on an imperfect grasp of what it's about. Where 
and when did a Cert of Competency deal with sobriety and conduct?  And "all 
ranks from mates to Captains were required to sit these examinations."  What 
the hell's that about?




It says, "All of this stuff is hand-written and the ink has faded, often 
there's very bad handwriting and mistakes are made or rats ate the 
documents," said Robinson.  And thereby lies the reason I don't subscribe to 
Ancestry.com. A friend paid good money for a lot of ill-transcribed crap 
that bore almost no relation to what was on the original record.  I got the 
truth from the original record for next to nothing.  God knows who did the 
transcribing for Ancestry.com.



Hugh.