A pint of IPA

You are probably thinking..."hang on that's not a cold, hoppy pint of delicious Deuchars IPA, surely that's the wreck of an XT Craft four man submarine from World War 2"

Only six examples of this specific group of XT craft were built and two of them are at Aberlady Bay, they were towed there in 1946 to be used for target practise by aircraft firing 20mm canon shells, since then they have just been left.

I never knew they were there until a fellow blipper was rash enough to issue a challenge. The first one to be obsessive and competitive enough to check when the low tide times are (the wrecks can only be accessed then)walk the miles to the beach and pick their way out across the sands and get a blip of these wrecks would win a pint.

So, it is a picture of a slice of wartime history AND a pint of IPA. Two for the price of one. And after all that walking I believe I am definitely due a Deuchars.