Double Pay and Greater Security
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Double Pay and Greater Security
But I found the first ship I was on it took pretty well ten days
to two weeks to load and unload. So I signed off there and
joined a tanker in England from then on, because it was more
money, double pay, so I got more pay from danger money on tankers
And I joined the Melina down in Portsmith, said hello to
Venezuela, load it with oil and then come back to England.
And then I went to Aruba with another tanker and sailed
overseas again. So it was just continuation, but tankers
was always protected in the convoy cause they were very important
to the war effort. So it would take about ten days to two
weeks to go across the ocean, but every time there was a
submarine scare up in the north, the North Atlantic,
we’d go five hundred miles south to get rid of them
and then come 500 miles back again. So it wasn’t just a
straight line going across with the convoy.
You had to deviate your course and follow where the submarines
was supposed to be so that was exciting.
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