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I was a radio operator in the OWS from 1971 to 1975, initially doing two trips on the Weather Reporter as a fill in for leave and then the
rest of my time on the Weather Adviser. There were 6 radio ops and the senior was Lawrie Johnston he was in his sixties then but I do
recall him saying about the loss of one op many years before - so that may have been George Corrigan. I know that the "Adviser" held
the Guiness book of records for the largest recorded wave in the North Atlantic which I think was 76 feet but we only ran the recorder
for 15 mins in every four hours - so there obviously bigger ones that got away. All four British OWS boats were stationed at Greenock
where there was a shore base, but , this may have gone when they downsized to 2 vessels circa 1975. At that time the running and
costs of these 2 vessel was taken over by the World Met Organisation and I departed to GCHQ as there was no challenge in working
on a single teleprinter position at SAC High Wickham, since, I was one of the young ones and unlikely to be offered a sea going post
on the remaining to ships.
Ian McKay Beattie (happily retired)