One of our convoy lost a propellor.
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One of our convoy lost a propellor.
Yeah, we were in a convoy there. There were six vessels on our
convoys, you know. Didn’t go separately. Nobody went over
singularly; there was always five or six went over there at the
same time, you know. Chasing submarines so they’d be able to
rescue people if they got submarined because they got blown
up by a torpedo. So we had six in our convoy and on of them
lost a propeller, so they had to stay there three days to get a
new one put on. And they got all the men to get in the bow of
the boat so it tipped back going this way, see, to get it up in
the air so they could work on the propeller, on the back
end here. Finally, took them three days to do that and
Liverpool was full of submarines waiting for us to come. They
knew we were coming, you know Yeah, well, they were in the
harbour, all these submarines. Three or four of them waiting
for us to get in there. Big vessels. We didn’t come there,
so they went back out again. So the next week we arrived, safe
as we could be. We just missed them by about three days.
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