The Rough North Atlantic
Heroes Remember
The Rough North Atlantic
Interviewer: What was the ship?
The Algonquin.
Interviewer: The Algonquin.
And can you just describe that ship for me?
What was its purpose, what was its design?
We were a destroyer escort.
Interviewer: And describe the ship for me. Big, small...
Huge. Two hundred and what was it,
thirty-five feet, something like that,
long and we were converted from a Tribal
class and we had a huge super structure
so we were sort of top heavy.
But, we came through some heavy seas.
We all made it. But there was
some scary moments, I tell you.
Interviewer: Tell me about those.
The pipes down below decks would be
busting and the ship would go over and she'd...
just teeter-totter and then she'd finally
come back up. It was very scary. Yes.
All hatches were closed tight because
you never knew what was gonna happen,
and as you know the North Atlantic,
it's the roughest sea in the world.
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