Pics from the Queen Mary just before docking at Pier 90:

Also see Gareth’s animation on his website.

Here’s what we had been doing earlier:

(No direct response to any of those messages has yet arrived. However I did hear that year from a boy in the north of England presenting himself as an officer of the International Bottle Club.) Assuming the four-hour time difference and the coordinates were correct, I certainly got the London time wrong — it would have had to be four hours later, not earlier. And I was mistaken at that point about being in the middle of the Atlantic. We were almost there! Here’s what Google Maps makes of those coordinates today:

Here’s where we’d stayed the night before we sailed from Southampton: