Seasick Leaving Port!
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Seasick Leaving Port!
We went on (inaudible), she was an old ship, an old First World
War ship. She was a troop ship in the First World War now that’s
how old she was. And going out through the narrows in Saint
John’s, she was a bit loppy there and I got sea sick right there
before we even went anywhere. Howard says, “Boy this is going to
be a long trip!” So anyway, after we got outside, when we got
out in the deep water it got a little bit better. We broke down
three or four times. It took a month to get to England, a whole month.
It usually only makes it in six or seven days at that time.
You can go now in a couple hours.
Well, you’re pretty crowded because there’s six bunks in one room
where there used to be one or two and there’s six there.
And the food was, I don’t know, it was alright for the first few days but then when
the fresh food wore out we had canned stuff like meat.
Christmas day, I got to tell you this one, well everybody was looking
forward to Christmas. Someone had a bottle of screech, he kept
that so we had a few drinks. Anyway, someone went down and seen
this chicken down in the cookhouse the cook had cooked and we
took it and brought it up and we shared it out. Stole it, it was
the captain’s dinner actually. They looked all over the place,
they asked everybody to see who done it,
but they never did find out.
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