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Outwitting a U-boat

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Going over on the Queen Elizabeth. That was quite an event, but I didn’t know it until after I got off of it. The story was

Video of the Queen Elizabeth.

a German submarine captain fired two torpedoes at us and he

U-Boat.

missed. Now that night on the ship I realized that she’d taken quite a turn to port and living on the coast we were familiar with being on ships and also the two of us, Nova Scotians, got up in the morning and looked out and realized we’re heading far north. It was very cold and we realized something must have happened, but we didn’t know till we got to England. Couple of days later the news said that the Germans said that they sank the Queen Elizabeth and we just got off.

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