Crossing the Atlantic on the Andrea Dora
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Crossing the Atlantic on the Andrea Dora
We were shipped back down to the East Coast and, and went out,
out of Halifax on the Andrea Dora. It was a real old ship and we,
we were escorted in with several other ships and it was quite a
trip because we were not allowed to go up on deck and the mess.
The boat is a round bottom boat and if you had been on the
Atlantic, you know it's rough, ship doing this all the time, and
by the time we got to the other side there was so much water in
the mess hall that you had to lift your feet every time the
ship rocked cause the water was running back and forth across the
floor in the dining room. We slept in bunks in one of the
halls and just hanging bunks, and you were in there so tight that
you rocked with the boat too.
Well, a real slow boat. It took forever to get over. I can't
remember how long now, but it was a long trip. And I can remember
we had what we called an "old fella", about thirty-three and he
got tired of sleeping in the bunk and he went in the bathroom and
slept in the tub. So we, we used to go in at night and pretend we
were going to throw up all over him. He used to get up and get
mad at us but he got over it all.
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