Nor’easter
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Nor’easter
On the way to Bermuda, we picked up a Nor’easter. And I think
the force five or four were the winds. And I never saw water,
even on Lake Superior, pile that high. And the ship, by God,
she did some things I thought she was auditioning for the
national ballet. Plow down, stern out of the water, screws
screaming in the air and then go the other way. And the guys in
the engine room on the throttles trying to time it so that the
only way we got forward motion was when the stern was in the
water. Lay over on one side and then get tired of that, lay
over on the other side, all of the crockery would come flying
out of the ... in the mess. And that it was so rough, that in
our communications mess there was 22 men and of the 22, there
was only four of us that weren’t sick. My chum and I in the
wireless and two signalmen and we stood... I remember being in
the wireless office 24-hours a day four hours at a time. We
never left it. And the cooks were so sick. They had two seamen
there cooking and all they cooked was wieners and sauerkraut and
served that for three meals a day. If you liked sauerkraut, you
were in heaven. If you didn’t, you were in hell.
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