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March 25, 2011	Good article nominee	Not listed
April 3, 2011	Good article nominee	Listed

A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on January 25, 2011.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that the recall of a weather ship for budgetary reasons was blamed for the minimal warning given in advance of the Great Storm of 1987 for Great Britain?

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Stationary[edit]

How were they kept stationary ? Were they anchored ? Or did they in fact circle a defined area ?

Normal operation for a weather ship was to have a designated area of operation. The ship would steam to the windward edge of the area then drift until they reached the edge of the area, then repeat. — Preceding unsigned comment added by UncertainScientist (talk • contribs) 16:15, 8 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Expansion[edit]

After remaining a stub article for over six years, improvement in the Braer Storm of January 1993 article led to the improvement of this article, since it was being used as a source of information via a wikilink. Thegreatdr (talk) 17:33, 18 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Maps showing ship locations[edit]

I have dropped a couple of maps onto Wikimedia, showing the locations of the ships, and wondered whether they might help the article. Bob1960evens (talk) 12:45, 30 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Very nice. They've been added. =) Thegreatdr (talk) 23:32, 31 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The location of Tango is incorrect in the Figure, it is at 135E not 135W (reference added). I've corrected this in the table but haven't replaced the Figure. UncertainScientist (talk) 17:00, 8 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]