Classified papers have been released to show that Rockall was regarded as a potential spy base for securing information about a range of features - shipping, aviation, rocketry, geological - well to the west of the Hebrides. Here is the Irish Navy's vessel , the Roisin, undertaking a routine maritime patrol in the area. See the suggestions about the wider interests of more distant nations on the BBC website.
Scottish Islands Explorer - spies on the insular
Digital Edition: employs even newer technology
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Looks like a perfect example of Photoshopping a ship. The Irish would not do that, would they?
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