APPENDIX

MERLIN TO LONDON - 1985

TABLE OF TIMES and DISTANCES RUN

Date	From/To	Distance made good	Time under way	Average Speed made good
Tuesday 30th July	Woolverstone to Pyefleet Channel (via Alresford)	31	9hrs 10mins	3.38
Wednesday 31st July	Pyefleet Channel to Holehaven	37	11hrs 6mins	3.34
Thursday 1st August	Holehaven to St. Katharine's Dock (entrance to lock)	31	6hrs 40mins	4.65
Friday 2nd August	St. Katharine's Dock (entrance to lock) to Queenborough	43	7hrs	6.14
Saturday 3rd August	Queenborough to Woolverstone	58	11hrs 10mins	5.19
Totals		200	45hrs 5mins	4.43

NOTES:

(1)

Engine-power was used for approximately 25 minutes in manoeuvres into and out of the lock at St. Katharine's Dock, 0.15% of the time under way.

(2)

Time under way amounted to 49.27% of the total time spent away from Woolverstone, a period of 91 hours, (just less than 5 days).